Commission for the Determination of Place Names

Commission for the Determination of Place Names
Komisja Ustalania Nazw Miejscowości
PredecessorWestern Institute
Successor
  • Komisja Nazw Miejscowości i Obiektów Fizjograficznych
  • Komisja Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych
EstablishedJanuary 1946; 78 years ago (1946-01)
Dissolved1960; 64 years ago (1960)
TypeGovernment commission
PurposeOversight of polonisation of place-names
Location
Region
Regained Territories
Official language
Polish
Chairman
Stanisław Srokowski
Commission member
Kazimierz Nitsch
Commission member
Stanisław Rospond
Commission member
Mikołaj Rudnicki
Key people
Władysław Semkowicz Witold Taszycki

The Commission for the Determination of Place Names (Polish: Komisja Ustalania Nazw Miejscowości) was a commission of the Polish Department of Public Administration, founded in January 1946. Its mission was the establishment of toponyms for places, villages, towns and cities in the former eastern territories of Germany (then known in Poland as the Regained Territories).[1]

  1. ^ Yoshioka, Jun (2007). "Imagining Their Lands as Ours: Place Name Changes on Ex-German Territories in Poland after World War II". In Tadayuki, Hayashi; Fukuda, Hiroshi (eds.). Regions in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present (PDF). 21st Century COE Program Slavic Eurasian Studies. Vol. 15. Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. pp. 273–288. ISBN 978-4-938637-43-9..