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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : John III Sobieski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Jan was born in 1629 at Olesko, Poland to Jakub (James) Sobieski (1580-1646), Voivod of Ruthenian Voivodship and Castellan of Kraków and Zofia Teofillia (Daniłowicz), granddaughter of Hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski. |
 | | King John III Sobieski, nicknamed by the Turks the "Lion of Lechistan", and the last great king of Poland, died in Wilanów, Poland on June 17, 1696. |
 | | On his death in 1733, a struggle for the crown of Poland ensued, referred to as the War of the Polish Succession. |
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