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The Treaty of Warsaw (Polish: Traktat warszawski, Swedish: Freden i Warszawa) was concluded on 18 November / 28 November 1705 during the Great Northern War. [1] It was a peace treaty and an alliance between the Swedish Empire and the faction of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth loyal to Stanisław Leszczyński .
The Battle of Warsaw (also known as the Battle of Rakowitz or Rakowiec) [Note 1] was fought on 31 July 1705 (Gregorian calendar) [Note 2] near Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, during the Great Northern War and Swedish invasion of Poland (1701–1706). The battle was part of a power struggle for the Polish–Lithuanian throne.
In 1707, by virtue of the peace treaty between Augustus II and Charles XII, Imperial Russian Army troops entered Warsaw. After two months, Russian forces were removed from Warsaw. Several times during the Northern war the city was obliged to pay heavy contributions.
Anna Karolina Orzelska (23 November 1707 – 27 September 1769) was a Polish szlachcianka (noblewoman) and an adventuress. Born as an illegitimate daughter of August II the Strong, Elector of Saxony, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, by Henriette Rénard she became Hereditary Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck by marriage.
Two large paintings by Tommaso Dolabella, of Tsar Vasili IV Shuysky paying homage to Sigismund III, and of the Polish capture of Smolensk, were looted by the Russian army in 1707 when the Royal Castle in Warsaw was captured by Tsar Peter I. According to another version of the images (ceilings from the floor of the Senate) they gave King August ...
Warsaw Confederation: 24,000 [3] Ottoman Empire: 130,000 (limited campaigns) [4] ... By 1707 this number had swollen to at least 120,000 despite casualties.
In 1707, by virtue of the peace treaty between Augustus II and Charles XII of Sweden, ... Warszawa w latach 1526–1795 (Warsaw in 1526–1795) (in Polish). Warsaw.
The Royal Castle in Warsaw was a seat of the Sejm and Senate of the first Rzeczpospolita and also an official residence of the monarchs in Warsaw. It contained the offices of a number of political institutions, arranged around a central courtyard. The castle is a symbol of Polish statehood and history.