Greece–Poland relations
bilateral relations between Greece and Poland
Greece–Poland relations are relations between Greece and Poland. Both countries are full members of NATO, the European Union, Three Seas Initiative, OECD, OSCE, the Council of Europe and the World Trade Organization. There are circa 4,000 people of Greek descent living in Poland, and over 20,000 people of Polish descent living in Greece.
Greece has given full support to Poland's membership in the European Union and NATO.
History
Early contacts
Since antiquity there have been direct and indirect contact between Greece and Poland. Historic Greek cities in present-day Ukraine had contacts with the people of Poland. During the Middle Ages Polish authors, politicians and philosophers were influenced by Greek literature, democracy and sense of freedom. Greeks, many of whom were merchants, lived in Poland since the Late Middle Ages (see Greeks in Poland).
Since the 19th century both nations often shared a similar fate, and their history has sometimes intertwined. In the 19th century both were under the rule of foreign powers. Greece was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and Poland was partitioned between Austria, Prussia (afterwards Germany) and Russia.
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