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History of Poland. The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, communism, and the restoration of democracy.
June 18–21. Trial of the Sixteen Polish Underground leaders in Moscow. July 10–25. Augustów roundup of anti-Communist partisans. August 2. Potsdam Conference concludes between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. August 11. Kraków pogrom with one dead victim. 1946.
History of Poland (1795–1918) From 1795 to 1918, Poland was split between Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and Russia and had no independent existence. In 1795 the third and the last of the three 18th-century partitions of Poland ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Nevertheless, events both within and outside the ...
Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland is a book about history of Poland, written by the English historian Norman Davies.It was published by Oxford University Press in 1984.
Kingdom of Poland. The Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Królestwo Polskie; Latin: Regnum Poloniae) was a monarchy in East-Central Europe during the medieval period from 1025 until the Union of Krewo (Act of Krewo) was signed in 1385, the first step towards the forming of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth two centuries later.
v. t. e. The early modern era of Polish history follows the Late Middle Ages. Historians use the term early modern to refer to the period beginning in approximately 1500 AD and lasting until around the Napoleonic Wars in 1800 AD. The Nihil novi act adopted by the Polish diet in 1505 transferred legislative power from the king to the diet.
Polish Golden Age. Coordinates: 50°03′N 19°56′E. King Sigismund II Augustus and Queen Barbara Radziwiłł in Vilnius by Jan Matejko. The Polish Golden Age (Polish: Złoty Wiek Polski) was the Renaissance period in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, roughly corresponding to the period of the Jagiellonian dynasty (1386 ...
t. e. The prehistory and protohistory of Poland can be traced from the first appearance of Homo species on the territory of modern-day Poland, to the establishment of the Polish state in the 10th century AD, a span of roughly 500,000 years. The area of present-day Poland went through the stages of socio-technical development known as the Stone ...