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	Past and Present Regions of Poland
		Although Małopolska is one of Poland's 16 administrative provinces, historically the area associated with this name is significantly larger stretching from Czestochwa in the west to Lublin in the east and encompassing the land between this line and the mountain ranges forming Poland's southern border.
		Originally the province was a Slavic settlement, and Opole, the capital of the region, was the seat of the dukes of Opole of the Piast dynasty (1163-1532).
		Poland's northeasternmost province, it divides Poland from Lithuania and Belarus.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/regions.html (4149 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dukes of Greater Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Przemysl I (Przemysł I) and Boleslaus the Pious (born after 1221, died 1279), was a duke of Greater Poland (provinces of Poznan, Kalisz, Gniezno) He was born to Ladislaus Odonic Plwacz, duke of Greater Poland, and Jadwiga of Pomerania, daughter of Mestwin I, duke of Eastern Pomerania.
		Greater Poland Uprising of 1794 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1794 roku) was a military insurection of the Polish people in the Greater Poland region against the occupying Prussian forces after the Second partition of Poland (1793).
		Dukes of Sieradz-Leczyca 1228-1232 Henry I the Bearded (Henryk I Brodaty) 1232-1233 Konrad of Masovia (Konrad Mazowiecki) 1234-1247 Konrad of Masovia (Konrad Mazowiecki) 1247-1260 Casimir I...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dukes-of-Greater-Poland (8634 words)

	Poland History
		It is said that "he found Poland built of wood and left her built of stone." His ambitious projects ringed the country with fortifications.
		Jogaila, known as Jagiello, was crowned as King of Poland in February of 1386 at an assembly of Polish barons and nobility and adopted the name of Wladyslaw II.
		Subsequently, the nobility elected the new king of Poland; it was to be French prince Henri de Valois.
	www.snookems.com /poland/phistory.htm (8510 words)

	Royalty.nu - The History of Poland - Polish Royalty
		The Chronicles and Deeds of the Dukes or Princes of the Poles by Gallus Anonymous, translated by Janos M. Bak.
		The Rise of the Polish Monarchy: Piast Poland in East Central Europe, 1320-1370 by Paul W. Knoll.
		Poland: A Historical Atlas by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Poland.html (682 words)

	POLAND
		Poland had not been an island, but a multinational state with no natural boundaries except the Baltic Sea to the north and the mountain wall of the Carpathians in the south.
		In 1148, the papal legate Guido came to Poland with the mission of persuading the provincial princes to recognise the suzerainty of the exiled Ladislaus.
		Duke of Transylvania, was elected king of Poland in 1575, and crowned in 1576, having previously married Anne Jagiellonian, the sister of Sigismund Augustus.
	grunwald.iatp.by /pl/POLAND.htm (11873 words)

	Poland
		No sooner was this invasion ended than the Russians and Swedes invaded Poland from the North-east and again the Jews were victims both at the hands of the invaders and of the Poles who accused them of collusion with the Swedes because the latter treated the Jews more kindly.
		Warsaw was in Prussian Poland from 1795 to 1807.
		With the partition of Poland, the history of its Jews became practically identified, respectively with that of Russian, Prussian and Austrian Jewry.
	www.oberman.org /poland.htm (2979 words)

	FRANCIA
		The Dukes of Savoy, beginning with a county in Burgundy, acquired more land and a capital (Turin) in Italy, named their new Kingdom after Sardinia and ultimately succeeded as the modern Kings of Italy.
		The biggest break came when Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was killed in 1477 and Louis XI was able to secure the return of large parts of the Burgundian domain to France, since the heiress Mary of Burgundy would not inherit under the Salic Law.
		A memorable example of Napoleon's ruthlessness was his kidnapping and execution of the Duke of Enghien, the heir of the Bourbon House of Condé.
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	Prussia 1911
		Frederick defeated him at Leuthen on 5 Dec. Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick continued to lead the Hanoverian and Prussian forces that fought against the French and drove the latter to the Rhine in the battle of Crefeld, 23 June, 1758.
		It was the policy of a man of genius who was entirely devoted to his task; too intellectual and enlightened to be a reactionary, but one who showed himself greater in carrying out and in utilizing the policies of his predecessors, than in establishing what was necessary to ensure the future development of the state.
		The greater part of the "party of progress" now became supporters of Bismarck under the name of the "National Liberal" party; the leaders of the National Liberals were Twesten, Lasker, and Forckenbeck.
	polishpoland.com /prussia_1911.htm (14678 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boleslaus the Pious (born between 1221-1227, died 14 April 1279), was a duke of Greater Poland (provinces of Poznań, Kalisz, and Gniezno).
		He was born to Ladislaus Odonic Plwacz, duke of Greater Poland, and Jadwiga of Pomerania, daughter of Mściwój I, duke of Eastern Pomerania.
		On 16 August 1264 Boleslaus granted the first written privilege to the Jews of Greater Poland (the Privilege of Boleslau of Kalisz).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Boleslaus_the_Pious (157 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dukes of Greater Poland
		At the death of Polish duke Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (1138), his country was divided by his will into 4-5 hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and the royal province of Cracow for the eldest, to be the Grand Duke of the whole Poland.
		One of these provinces, Greater Poland was given to the Mieszko III the Old, the third oldest son of Boleslaus, and subsequently divided among his descendants and successors, until they died out in 1296.
		After a short period of rule by the dukes from various branches of Piast dynasty and the kings of Bohemia, the province fell to Władysław I the Elbow-high (crowned king 1320) and turned into the Poznań Voivodship and Kalisz Voivodship of the united Kingdom of Poland.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dukes_of_Greater_Poland (821 words)

	Henry II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Henry the Pious succeeded his father in 1238 and became the most powerful of all the Polish dukes.
		He united the majority of Polish teritories: (Silesia, Greater Poland and Little Poland).
		In 1239 he supported the Pope in his conflict with Emperor Frederick II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_II_of_Poland (156 words)

	Titles of European hereditary rulers
		Although the German central government restricted their authority, kings, dukes, and princes preserved a great deal of autonomy in the local affairs until the time of the November Revolution of 1918, which deposed all of them.
		In the 12th century, the Kings of France annexed the Duchy of Normandy, the Counties of Poitou, Anjou, Maine, Toulouse, etc., and became the biggest landowners in the country (although, the Kings of France continued to gave away duchies and counties to their younger sons as apanages).
		With the restoration of the royal authority, the French dukes, counts, and other feudal lords gradually lost their independence (they retained some autonomy only until the 16th century).
	www.geocities.com /eurprin (2009 words)

	The Periphery of Francia: Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe, & Scandinavia
		These domains and houses were completely independent of each other, with the Duchy of Burgundy a fief of France and its Dukes Capetian members of the French Royal Family, while the County was a fief of the Kingdom of Burgundy and its Counts members of the Italian House of Ivrea.
		Teobaldo II The marriage of Blanca of Navarre to Theobald of Champagne means that for a while the Counts of Champagne become the Kings of Navarre.
		The greater threat to the regime, however, seemed to be the Moriscos, who continued to speak Arabic and retained their traditional garb and customs.
	www.friesian.com /perifran.htm (11471 words)

	Poland and the Baltic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was ceded to Poland in 1466 by the Teutonic Knights, passed to Prussia in 1772, and reverted to Poland after World War II.
		In 1569, Poland was converted from a hereditary to an elective monarchy, and in fact the state was self-described as a rzeczpospolita, a republic.
		Title of Duke devolves to the Grand Prince of Lithuania; government of Samogitia under the control of an elective Zhemaitija or "Elder", elected by Samogitian nobility and under Lithuanian suzereinty, with his seat at Raseniai.
	www.hostkingdom.net /baltic.html (2715 words)

	History of Galicia and Volhynia second half of 13th century. Historical notes about medieval political history of ...
		Duke Leo attempted to break this act later, taking into consideration existance of "his friend" khan Nogay, but Mstislav forced him withdraw, explaining that power transfer was made and agreed with the rulers of Golden Horde and their councellors, frightening to complain to the Golden Horde.
		The external politics of Galician duke Leo was quite definite and clear but in his plans he very likely had to have the correspondent sanctions from the khan of Golden Horde.
		He sent his trusted Fransiscan Henrich to the Polish dukes, who was entrusted to establish connection with Rus' court since Henrich (through his grandfather Konrad of mazovia) had a family connection to Rus' dukes and hoped for success of his mission.
	www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/gal.htm (3613 words)

	ipedia.com: List of Polish rulers Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Poland was ruled by dukes (c.962-1025, 1032-1076, 1079-1295, 1296-1300 and 1306-1320) and kings (1025-1032, 1076-1079, 1295-1296, 1300-1305 and 1320-1795).
		Przemysl II, Duke of Poland (Duke of Cracow 1290-1291) King 1295-1296
		Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1291-1305) King of Poland 1300-1305
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_polish_rulers.html (354 words)

	Timeline Poland
		Poland was given Pomerelia and West Prussia, and the knights retained East Prussia, with a new capital at Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
		Russia and Poland concluded the Peace of Jam-Zapolski under which Russia lost access to the Baltic and surrendered Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
		Poland’s partition line was moved eastwards from the Vistula line to the line of the Bug.
	timelines.ws /countries/POLAND.HTML (14119 words)

	St. Hedwiges
		The father of this saint was Bertold III of Andechs, Marquis of Meran, Count of Tirol, and Prince (or Duke) of Carinthia and Istria, as he is styled in the Chronicle of Andechs and in the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.[1] Her mother was Agnes, daughter of the Count of Rotletchs.
		Hedwiges, by a distinguishing effect of the divine mercy in her favour, was from her cradle formed to virtue by the example and lessons of her devout mother and of those that were placed about her.
		She was placed very young in the monastery of Lutzingen, in Franconia, and only taken thence when twelve years old to marry Henry, Duke of Silesia, descended of the Dukes of Glogau, in that country; to which match she only consented out of compliance with the will of her parents.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/STHEDWIG.htm (2130 words)

	Medieval Lithuania
		Medieval Lithuania included also the territory of modern Belarus and the greater part of Ukraine and had strongly influenced the historical fate of Poland and the other countries in the region.
		The lands of the three Jagiellonian brothers (Wladislas, the King of Bohemia and Hungary; John Albert, the King of Poland; Alexander, the Grand Duke of Lithuania) formed a Jagiellonian political system, which existed from 1492 to 1526.
		The heart of 'Baltic Europe' is formed by the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (with the kingdom of Poland) and the Teutonic Order.
	viduramziu.lietuvos.net /en (401 words)

	Dukes of Greater Poland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dukes of Greater Poland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		[Categories: Dukes of Kalisz, Dukes of Gniezno, Dukes of Poznan, Dukes of Greater Poland, Greater Poland]
		Turned into the (Click link for more info and facts about Poznan Voivodship) Poznan Voivodship, part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Greater Poland) Greater Poland province of the united (Click link for more info and facts about Kingdom of Poland) Kingdom of Poland
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/du/dukes_of_greater_poland.htm (1471 words)

	POLAND
		Poland, composed of all these areas and united under its Piast rulers, emerged as a stable political entity in the second half of the 10th century. The conversion of Poland to Christianity in 966 reinforced the unity of the new nation state.
		WŁADYSŁAW HERMAN of Poland, son of KAZIMIERZ I KAROL "Odnowiciel/the Renewer" Prince of Poland and his wife Dobronega Maria Vladimirovna of Kiev ([1043]-4 Jun 1102). The Chronicæ Polanorum names (in order) the four sons "Bolezlavus, Wladislaus, Mescho et Otto" of King Kazimierz, and an (unnamed) daughter who married "regi Bohemiæ"
		BOLESŁAW of Poland, son of WŁADYSŁAW I HERMAN Prince of Poland and his second wife Judith of Bohemia (20 Aug [1086]-28 Oct 1138). The Chronicæ Polanorum names "Bolezlavum" as son of King Władysław and his wife "filiam Wratislavi Bohemici regis"
	fmg.ac /Projects/MedLands/POLAND.htm (4632 words)

	Jessica Simpson in Sexy 'Hot Tub Thong Scene' in New Film - Topix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		And yes Aaliyah...it does say that sins that are not repented will have consequences...that is why Christians ask for forgivness for al of their sins.
		Our Lord said to Pilate, "He that hath delivered me unto thee, he hath the greater sin." And yet it is evident that Pilate was guilty of some sin.
		Therefore one sin is greater than the other.
	www.topix.net /forum/movies/the-dukes-of-hazzard/TO0DMNGLE47R8HQGA/p12 (2991 words)

	MCN: 20 Weeks of Summer - Week 19
		That number will decrease as films like Dukes of Hazzard keep earning and potentially as The 40 Year Old Virgin and Red Eye pass the $40 million mark.
		It can drive a person looking for some sort of logic to it all crazy.
		Or is Riddick's greater because it actually opened to $24 million?
	www.moviecitynews.com /columnists/poland/2005/050818.html (925 words)

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