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4 days ago · The Napoleon's campaigns in Poland (1806–07) resulting in his decision to re-establish a form of Polish statehood (the Duchy of Warsaw) at the cost of also Prussian-conquered Polish territories, as well as his campaigns on Iberian Peninsula, in western Germany, and his disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 disillusioned many Germans, princes ...
May 20, 2024 · The War of the Austrian Succession [f] was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the First Carnatic War, and the First and Second Silesian Wars .
May 20, 2024 · Poland c. 1044 – 1102: Otto of Ballenstedt c. 1070 – 1123: Eilika of Saxony c. 1080 – 1142: Vladislav I of Bohemia c. 1065 – 1125: Bołesław III of Poland 1086–1138: Salomea of Berg c. 1100 – 1144: Albert I the Bear c. 1100 – 1157–1170: Sophie of Winzenburg 1105–1160: Pribislav-Henry of the Hevelli died 1150: Richeza of ...
3 days ago · The combined population of Poland and GDL in 1493 is estimated as 7.5 million, of whom 3.25 million were Poles, 3.75 million Ruthenians and 0.5 million Lithuanians. [4] Samogitia (marked in pink) and Lithuania proper (marked in green) in a map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1712
May 20, 2024 · Polish–Lithuanian War. The Polish–Lithuanian War (in Polish historiography, Polish–Lithuanian Conflict [6] [7]) was an undeclared war between newly independent Lithuania and Poland following World War I, which happened mainly in the Vilnius and Suwałki regions. The war is viewed differently by the respective sides.
1 day ago · Gdańsk [a] is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, [8] it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. [9] [7] Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and ...
5 days ago · The Free State of Prussia (German: Freistaat Preußen, pronounced [ˌfʁaɪ̯ʃtaːt ˈpʁɔɪ̯sn̩] ⓘ) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1947. The successor to the Kingdom of Prussia after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, it continued to be the dominant state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, as it had been during the empire, even though most of ...
