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Intermarium

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Etymology

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Pseudo-Latinism from inter- (between) +‎ mare (sea) +‎ -ium; coined as a calque of Polish Międzymorze.

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Intermarium

  1. (historical) A proposed geopolitical plan conceived by Józef Piłsudski, that sought to unite former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lands within a single polity.
    • 1989, Mark Aarons, Sanctuary: Nazi fugitives in Australia, →ISBN, page 75:
      British and French intelligence took a great deal of interest in the re-emergence of Intermarium in late 1945, the French initially developing close contacts.
    • 2007, Jonathan Levy, The Intermarium: Wilson, Madison, & East Central European Federalism, →ISBN, page 179:
      The Promethean League was thought to be the model for the Intermarium. According to this American report, the Intermarium was a Polish plan for regional federation and can be traced to Poles in Warsaw not Russian exiles in Paris or German military intelligence.
    • 2019, Ostap Kushnir, The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black Sea Cooperation, →ISBN, page 52:
      To draw intermediary conclusions, the historical and contemporary interpretations of the Intermarium concept—which defines the lands between the Baltic and Black Seas—are very vague and diverse.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Intermarium.