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The city resumed its role as a Polish voivodeship capital in the Second Polish Republic, and later, following the 1939–1945 Nazi German occupation, in the communist Polish People's Republic. Since 1999 Poznań has been the capital of Greater Poland Voivodeship.
1918. 3 December: The first session of the Polish Provincial Sejm (parliament) of the former Prussian Partition of Poland in Poznań. 27 December: Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) against German rule begins. 28 December: City liberated by Polish insurgents.
Przemysław Matusik: The beginnings of Poznań are related to creating the foundations of the Polish state. In the 940s, a huge borough was built where Poznań is today, surrounded by great embankments, surpassing everything that had existed in Poland so far.
History. Early Middle Ages. For centuries before the Christianization of Poland (an event that essentially is credited as the creation of the very first Polish state, the Duchy of Poland), Poznań was an important cultural and political centre of the Western Polans.
Towns received formal charters (Wrocław in 1242, Poznań in 1253, Kraków in 1257) that provided for autonomy and self-government modeled on that of the German city of Magdeburg—hence the term Magdeburg Law.
Although the centre of national political power moved to Kraków in the 11th century, and later to Warsaw, Poznań remained an important regional center, being the chief city of the Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) region.
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In the 16th century, Poznań was the site of the Union of Lublin, which united Poland and Lithuania into a single state. In the 17th century, Poznań was occupied by Swedish forces during the Thirty Years’ War.
