According to plus-size-tips.com, the “deluge” that had been unleashed on Poland was coming to an end. The republic emerged shaken and exhausted, but with the honor of arms. The highest spirit of sacrifice had redeemed the unbridled selfishness of the troubled years. In reality, the inevitable territorial losses were not very serious and did not…
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Poland History Part 10
The importance of this union, which subtracted a part of the Polish-Lithuanian subjects from the interference of the Moscow patriarchate, was all the greater, since with the extinction of the Rjurik dynasty the opportune moment for a decisive affirmation of Polish supremacy in Eastern Europe. In fact, the help of some Polish magnates granted to…
Poland History Part 9
With the death of Sigismund Augustus, the Polish throne, formally already elective, but actually hereditary in the Jagellonid family, also becomes elective in fact. And electivity appears full of threats since the first interregnum (1572-1573): the antagonisms between nobility and aristocracy, between Catholics and Protestants, are rekindled while souls are disoriented and divided between the…
Poland History Part 8
In the south, however, Sigismondo’s policy was rather fluctuating. Faced with the onslaught of the Turks, he showed himself almost passive; he did not help his nephew Ladislao in Mohács (1526); he did not take a clear position between the Hapsburg party and that of Zápolya, which after the death of Ladislao were disputing the…
Poland History Part 7
But as the Jagellonids became the most powerful dynasty in Central and Eastern Europe, the power of Russia and Turkey also grew. On the eastern borders, the situation of the Lithuanian-Polish state was becoming worrying. Between 1475 and 1484 the Turks occupied the ports of Caffa, Kilia and Akkerman, removing Poland’s access to the Black…
Poland History Part 6
According to healthvv.com, the union between the two states therefore remained only personal, but since the agreements of 1401 (a first rapprochement between the cousins took place in 1392) also took part in the Polish aristocracy and the Lithuanian boyars, it already contained within itself the germs of future developments. This was demonstrated shortly after…
Poland History Part 5
Only at its beginning and its end did the Piasti dynasty give Poland truly eminent statesmen. Nevertheless, the progress made in the Polish lands between the century was significant. X and the sec. XIV. The first Piasti had carried out the work of pioneers: apart from the state and church organization of the country, it…
Poland History Part 4
However, the tenacious Vladislao the Brief (Lokietek, 1304-1333), younger brother of Leszek the Black. Taking refuge abroad in 1300, he returned to Poland in 1304; it first occupied several towns in Lesser Poland, then, after the death of Wenceslaus (1305), Krakow. The duchy of Sieradz, Kuyavian and eastern Pomerania soon recognized its dominion as well….
Poland History Part 3
Having centralized all the central-eastern territories of Poland in his hands, Casimir turned his gaze to the east, extended his sovereignty over some regions of the Bug, fought successfully against the Baltic and pagan tribe of the Jadvingi, asserted his authority also on the Halicz and became one of the creators of Polish Eastern policy…
Poland History Part 2
According to fashionissupreme.com, a year before his death he managed to obtain, with the consent of Rome, for so many years in vain expected, the royal crown: a symbol of the independence and indivisibility of Polish lands. But the greatness of the new state that reached from the sea as far as Moravia and Slovakia…