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1 day ago · 17 June 1501 Toruń Aged 41. Succeeded his father in Poland Laid foundation for the Sejm and Senate (Polish Parliament) Jagiellon. King Alexander Polish: Aleksander Jagiellończyk 12 December 1501 – 19 August 1506 (4 years, 251 days) 5 August 1461 Kraków Son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Habsburg.
2 days ago · Judith of Saxony died 1266: Przemysł I of Greater Poland 1220–1257: Matilda of Brandenburg c. 1210 – 1261: Albert III c. 1250 – 1267–1300: Matilda of Denmark 1250–1299: Otto V the Tall 1246–1267–1298: Judith of Henneberg-Coburg: Otto VI the Short 1255–1267– 1286–1303: Hedwig of Habsburg c. 1260 – 1303: Albert I of Germany ...
5 days ago · Due to their one-sidedness, it is impossible to reconstruct fully all the spheres of life of prehistoric societies. However, the abundance of archaeological artefacts discovered in Greater Poland helps researchers describe successive prehistoric ages and reconstruct some aspects of everyday life.
3 days ago · The Commonwealth gradually came to be dominated by the szlachta, which regarded the state as an embodiment of its rights and privileges. Ranging from the poorest landless yeomen to the great magnates, the szlachta insisted on the equality of all its members.
3 days ago · The king was the source of law (usually in tandem with the Sejm, though some decrees did not require the Sejm’s assent), supreme judge, chief executive, and supreme commander, free to declare war and peace. He ruled Lithuania as a hereditary domain.
2 days ago · The terms Poland and Poles appear for the first time in medieval chronicles of the late 10th century. The land that the Poles, a West Slavic people, came to inhabit was covered by forests with small areas under cultivation where clans grouped themselves into numerous tribes.
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3 days ago · For someone unaware of the past of this part of Poland, which is called Wielkopolska (Greater Poland), and of which the capital is Poznań, this is not entirely comprehensible. Is it possible to speak at all of two archaeologies, since science is not able to subjugate itself to one nation?
