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	Poland - LoveToKnow 1911
		It is to him that Poland owed the important acquisition of the greater part of Red Russia, or Galicia, which enabled her to secure her fair share of the northern and eastern trade.
		Poland, as the next neighbour of Hungary, was more seriously affected than any other European power by this catastrophe, but her politicians differed as to the best way of facing it.
		All the.more disquieting was the internal condition of the country, due mainly to the invasion of Poland by the Reformation, and the coincidence of this invasion with an internal revolution of a quasi-democratic character, which aimed at substituting the rule of the szlachta for the rule of the senate.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Poland (15823 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Poland revolted from the empire, and the Polish Church began a reform in accordance with Gregory's decrees.
		The Church of Poland took part, it is true, in the Synod of Constance, at which Hus was burnt, but had not the strength to oppose effectively the reactionary tendency of the nobility, which sought to use heresy as a counterpoise to the influence of the Church.
		The head of the Catholic Church in Poland was the Archbishop of Gnesen, primate of the kingdom and legatus nalus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12181a.htm (17006 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > History of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Poland's nobility (in Polish Szlachta) started to identify themselves with the country during the Fragmentation (Rozbicie dzielnicowe) period (1138-1320) when Poland was divided into a number of principalities under the terms of Boleslaus III's bequest to his sons.
		On numerous occasions Poland's existence as a country was endangered, first, when the Polanian dukes tried to conquer lands in the 10th-13th centuries from Bohemia (Czechs), from Pomeranian, Prussian and Germans, and later, in the 17th century and afterwards, by Swedes, Russians, Prussians and Austrians.
		Poland is now a member of NATO and an associate member of the European Union, of which it seeks full membership.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/hi/History_of_Poland (6475 words)

	History of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Poland's location in the very centre of Europe became especially significant in a period when both Prussia and Russia were intensely involved in European rivalries and alliances and modern nation states were established over the entire continent.
		Poland regained its independence in 1918, but the Second Polish Republic was destroyed by Germany in the Invasion of Poland at the beginning of the Second World War.
		The Polish state was born in 966 with the baptism of Mieszko I, duke of the Slavic tribe of Polans and founder of the Piast dynasty.
	www.tocatch.info /en/History_of_poland.htm (3563 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.
		Subsequently, the nobility elected the new king of Poland; it was to be French prince Henri de Valois.
		The uprising did, however, succeed in blunting the effect of the Tsar's abolition of serfdom in the Russian partition, which had been designed to win Polish peasants away from supporting the rest of the Polish nation.
	www.snookems.com /poland/phistory.htm (8510 words)

	Informat.io on Ko Ciuszko Uprising
		On March 24, 1794, Tadeusz Kościuszko, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, announced the general uprising and assumed the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
		On May 7, 1794, Kościuszko issued an act that became known as the "Proclamation of Połaniec", in which he partially abolished the serfdom in Poland, granted civil liberty to all peasants and provided them with state help against the abuses by szlachta.
		On August 20 an uprising in Greater Poland started and the Prussians were forced to withdraw their forces from Warsaw.
	www.informat.io /?title=ko-ciuszko-uprising (1729 words)

	Informat.io on List Of Polish Wars
		During the Middle Ages, Poland fought mostly to defend itself from the German eastward expansion, but at the same time tried to conquer its eastern neighbor, Ruthenia.
		The Polish concept of uprising is derived from the system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where the citizens were supposed to play an important role in the governing of the country.
		The Silesian Uprisings (Polish: Powstania śląskie) was a series of three military insurrections (1919-1921) of the Polish people in the Upper Silesia region against the occupying German/Prussian forces in order to liberate the region and join to Poland, that regained her independence after the World War I (1914-1918)
	www.informat.io /?title=list-of-polish-wars (1365 words)

	History of Poland - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Generations later, his country would become Poland, but there was no unified Polish nation at that time, only an assortment of Slavic tribes speaking different dialects such as the (Pomeranian) of the North (they were speaking Nordic dialects not Slovian!!!).
		During this period Poland became the home to Europe's largest Jewish population, as royal edicts guaranteeing Jewish safety and religious freedom from the 13th century contrasted with bouts of persecution in western Europe, especially following the Black Death of 1348-1349, blamed by some in the West on Jews themselves.
		Resistance against the Nazis in Warsaw, including uprising by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Uprising by the Polish underground, was brutally suppressed.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=13772 (2237 words)

	Polish History - Part 14
		Poland was first unified as a nation in the 11th century.
		In the 17th century Poland came under attack from all sides; it was invaded by the Swedes, fought with the Turks, and there was a Cossack rebellion in the southeastern territories.
		Throughout the 19th century Poland continued to be occupied, despite two uprisings in i830 and 1863.
	www.poloniatoday.com /history14.htm (807 words)

	(Poland: History of its Elective Democracy)
		In 1572 Inquisition was banned in Poland, and from 1563 onwards the state ceased to execute sentences imposed by Church courts.
		The process of reunification of Poland from the dynastic subdivisions of the Middle Ages, and the growth of the state through political unions, led to the gradual shift of the political center of gravity of the country.
		With the reunification of Poland in 1918 the former chambers in the castle could not be quickly restored to a useable condition.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /JJ.html (11665 words)

	Wielkopolska Uprising (1794) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Racławice – Warsaw – Wilno – Greater Poland – Szczekociny – Chełm – Krupczyce – Terespol – Maciejowice – Praga
		The 1794 Greater Poland Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1794 roku) was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		Together with the assault by General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, the 1794 Wielkopolska Uprising prevented the Prussians from intervening against Polish forces in the Kościuszko Uprising in central Poland against Tsarist Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wielkopolska_Uprising_(1794) (147 words)

	Duchy_of_warsaw info here at en.18th-century-costume.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: KsiÄstwo Warszawskie; French: DuchÃ© de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau) was a Polish prerequisite constituted by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia second banana the understanding of the Treaties of Tilsit.
		Although it was occasioned as a satellite state (and was only a duchy, ilk of than a kingdom), it was frequently hoped and believed that with subsequent the nation would be able to attain its former status, not to remark its former borders.
		When a Republic of Poland was constituted in the aftermath of World War I, its first borders were allied to those of the duchy that had preceded it a century before.
	en.18th-century-costume.info /Duchy_of_Warsaw (2058 words)

	Duchy_of_warsaw info here at en.1930-fashion.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: KsiÄstwo Warszawskie; French: DuchÃ© de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau) was a Polish aspect entrenched by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia pressed down the proviso of the Treaties of Tilsit.
		Although it was bankrolled as a satellite state (and was only a duchy, averagely than a kingdom), it was ordinarily hoped und believed that with term the nation would be able to win back its former status, not to acknowledgment its former borders.
		When a Republic of Poland was entrenched in the aftermath of World War I, its basic borders were comparable to those of the duchy that had preceded it a century before.
	en.1930-fashion.info /Duchy_of_Warsaw (2097 words)

	History of Poland (1772 - 1918) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, Polish patriotism and striving for regaining independence could not extinguished by them.
		Polish independence was eventually proclaimed on November 3, 1918 and later confirmed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919; the same treaty also gave Poland some German and Austrian territories.
		Polish independence has boosted the development of culture and economy; however, the new Polish state had had only 20 years of relative stability and uneasy peace before Poland's aggressive neighbours tried to wipe her from the map of Europe again.
	republika.pl /euro2005/vorschlag/1772_1918.htm (418 words)

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