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| | The Tailor Shop, Threads of our Past - Galicia, Austria "The Old Country" |
 | | "Polish Queen Jadwiga (1374-1399, ruled from 1384 till 1399), was the daughter of Louis I, King of Hungary and Poland (Polish: Ludwik Wegierski) from the Andegawen dynasty. |
 | | Queen Jadwiga's grandfather, King Casimir III, The Great (Polish: Kazimierz Wielki) (1333-1370), the last king of Polish Piast dynasty, invited Jews to Poland after destructions of over 300 German Jewish communities, and with the Statut of Wislica (1384) he provided Jews protection from pogroms and ritual murders at the hands of the Christians. |
 | | With France increasingly paralyzed and Britain's attention concentrated beyond Europe, the Eastern powers were able to contrive the Partitions of Poland. |
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