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Jan 4, 2024 · The Empire-level Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is created; The kingdoms of Poland and Lithuania are now de jure PLC; If you hold or completely control the following kingdoms, they also become de jure PLC: Pomerania, Estonia, White Rus', Galicia-Volhynia; We might also add the following (not sure how possible it would be):
Abstract. A major new assessment of the “vanished kingdom” of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe’s largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a union of Poland and Lithuania which controlled much of Eastern Central Europe from 1569 to 1795. Its predecessors, the kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, had centuries of history beforehand. Poland–Lithuania was a beacon for liberty in a time when absolute monarchy was the norm in ...
Dec 21, 2022 · An alliance with Poland in 1386 led the two countries into a union through the person of a common ruler. In 1569, Lithuania and Poland formally united into a single dual state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This entity survived until 1795 when its remnants were partitioned by surrounding countries.
Sep 20, 2018 · polish flag. Poland’s flag is made up of two horizontal stripes of white over red and was officially adopted in the early 20th century. But let’s see where it all started. From the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth… The first reported Polish coat of arms – a white eagle on a red shield – dates from the 13th century.
Mostly the same as the generic Polish Greater Commonwealth, main difference being that the Polish one can't core Estonia, and the Lithuanian one can't core Zaolzie (Lithuanian Commonwealth actually loses Poland's core in Zaolzie when annexes it). And since Estonian territories are vastly better to Zaolzie, I personally consider Mindaugas II's ...
Lithuanians view the formation of the commonwealth as partly losing independence - Casimir IV was the last Lithuanian king, and after that they all spoke polish, the capital of the kingdom was is Krakow (later Warsaw) and later on all the nobles spoke polish too, so in reality only the serfs and peasants spoke lithuanian, and our language was ...
