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  • , December 5, 1867 – May 12, 1935) was a Polish statesman, Field ... From his youth, Piłsudski desired the independence of the former ...
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  • After consulting a professor of classical language at Ohio State University ... use hybrid terms, such as widely used in Polish term kserokopia ("xerocopy ...
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  • [[Image:Rzeczpospolita Rozbiory 1.png|thumb|right|350px|The Polish ... had been allowed to freely cross the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during ...
    32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
  • of Gallus Anonymus, the first legendary Polish ruler, Siemowit, who began ... The term sejm comes from an old Polish expression denoting a meeting ...
    32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
  • applied herself to learning the Russian language with such zeal that she ... of two powers; the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ...
    19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
  • Prague, they were composed in the Czech language in order to resurrect the ... adulatory worship of Russia; during the Polish uprising in 1830, Šafařík ...
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  • (November 21, 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish ... Yiddish: פֿאָרװערטס), a Yiddish-language newspaper. After a promising ...
    18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
  • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish ... that followed the adoption of the Polish language and culture.Linda Gordon ...
    62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
  • Salomon ben Josua Maimon (1754, Sukowiborg/Niasviž, near Mirz, Polish Lithuania – November 22, 1800, Nieder-Siegersdorf, Niederschlesien) ...
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  • Lapis takes an excellent polish and has been made into jewelry, carvings, boxes, mosaics, ornaments, and vases. In architecture, it has been ...
    11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
  • headed by Tamás Esze joined him near the Polish city of Lawoczne. Bercsényi ... Rákóczi was offered the Polish Crown twice, supported by Tsar Peter ...
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  • to reach nearly the former Galitian (Polish) border, thus separating ... counties of the Kingdom of Hungary with Polish majority population to Poland. ...
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  • daughter of Gyula of Transylvania. (Some Polish sources claim his mother ... and in the Peace of Bautzen, in 1018, the Polish prince had to hand over the ...
    19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
  • of a homogeneous Russia—homogeneous in language, administration, and religion ... containing only one nationality, one language, one religion, and one form ...
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  • and satirical commentary prior to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth partitioning ... * Biernat of Lublin (Polish, 1465? – after 1529). * Jean de La Fontaine ...
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  • government which ultimately ignored the Polish government-in-exile; this ... and over the next two years the Communist Polish United Workers' Party ...
    65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
  • transliteration: Byelarus’, Polish: Białoruś) is a landlocked ... to recapture their heritage from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ...
    48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
  • Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born ... start a career as a writer, writing not in Polish or French, but in English ...
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  • in the gothic masterpiece of the Polish writer Jan Potocki, 'The Manuscript Found in Saragossa', written about 1797. In Argentina, the ...
    18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
  • this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King ... and dwarfs. She spoke French, the court language of the age, but never bothered ...
    22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022

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