Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I, Polan Poland ta zama ɗayan manyan wuraren wasan kwaikwayo na Gabashin Gabas. Rushewar Rasha a cikin yankin Austria <unk> Hungary ya haifar da Yaƙin Galicia. Daga cikin sauran manyan yaƙe-yaƙe da suka faru a Kananan Poland, akwai Yaƙin Kogin Vistula
, da kuma Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive. Bayan sojojin Rasha sun koma gabas, duk lardin ya kasance karkashin ikon Austrians da Jamusawa, kuma arewacin Poland ta kasance wani ɓangare na Masarautar Poland da ke tallafawa Jamus (1916-1918). A ƙarshen rikici, lardin da aka raba ya sake zama cibiyar motsi na 'yancin Poland. An sake ayyana gwamnatin Poland mai zaman kanta a arewacin garin Lesser Poland na Lublin, a ranar 7 ga Nuwamba, 1918. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, ya zama tushen sabuwar gwamnatin ƙasar. A wasu sassan lardin, an kafa wasu gwamnatoci <unk> Hukumar Rufe Poland a Kraków, kuma Jamhuriyar Tarnobrzeg ta ɗan gajeren lokaci.