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The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 ( Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–1919 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region (German: Grand Duchy of Posen or Provinz Posen) against German rule.
- 27 December 1918 – 28 June 1919, (6 months and 1 day)
- Greater Poland region
- Insurgent victory
v. t. e. The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( French: Traité de Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other. Like the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary and the Treaty of Versailles with the Weimar Republic, it contained the ...
- 16 July 1920
- 10 September 1919
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The history of interwar Poland comprises the period from the revival of the independent Polish state in 1918, until the Invasion of Poland from the West by Nazi Germany in 1939 at the onset of World War II, followed by the Soviet Union from the East two weeks later. The two decades of Poland's sovereignty between the world wars are known as the ...
As we know, at the convention in Kassa (1374), the Polish nobility agreed to the female succession of the daughters of Louis I of Anjou in exchange for the issue of a privilege. Jan of Czarnków, whom I have already mentioned, was a great opponent of such solution. The king had three daughters: Catherine, Mary, and the youngest, Jadwiga.
Mar 15, 2024 · Jadwiga (born 1373/74—died July 17, 1399, Kraków, Poland; canonized June 8, 1997; feast day February 28) was the queen of Poland (1384–99) whose marriage to Jogaila, grand duke of Lithuania ( Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland), founded the centuries-long union of Lithuania and Poland. Jadwiga was the daughter of Louis I, king of both ...
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Events. The Treaty of Riga was signed by Poland and the Soviet state on 18 March 1921 and was preceded by a preliminary treaty of 12 October 1920. It ended the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920 and was a crucial factor in establishing peace in Eastern Europe following the Great War. It established the Polish-Soviet border, known as the Riga border ...
the war aims of both sides as they emerged in the course of the 1919 1920 war. The war, one must stress, was not fought for control of a given number of square miles but for much greater objectives which were not fully understood in Poland and largely misunderstood in the West. For Pilsudski the war offered Poland a chance to undo the
