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    Danzig in 1308. Eventually, Poland and Lithuania, allied through the Union of Krewo (1385), defeated the Knights in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg)...
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    a single entity by the Union of Lublin on 1 July 1569. The two nations had previously been in a personal union since the Krewo Agreement of 1385 and the...
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    than 150 famines in a 200-year period between 1501 and 1700. From the Union of Krewo (1385) east-central Europe was dominated by the Kingdom of Poland and...
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    rest of the nobility as the state's elite after the signing of the Union of Krewo in 1385. The significance of the Radziwiłł family is proved by the marriage...
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    After he became King of Poland, as a result of the Union of Krewo, the newly formed Polish-Lithuanian union confronted the growing power of the Teutonic Order...
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  • In 1385, the Grand Duchy formed a dynastic union with Poland through the Union of Krewo. Later, the Union of Lublin (1569) created the Polish–Lithuanian...
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    country in Europe. In 1385, Lithuania formed a dynastic union with Poland through the Union of Krewo. Furthermore, in the late 14th–15th centuries patrilineal...
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    Grand Duchy of Lithuania (category Polish–Lithuanian union)
    his sons, Algirdas and Kęstutis. Algirdas's son Jogaila signed the Union of Krewo in 1386, bringing two major changes in the history of the Grand Duchy...
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    later, they defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle on the Ice. The Union of Krewo in 1386, bringing two major changes in the history of the Grand Duchy...
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    pagan, concerning his potential marriage to Jadwiga. Jogaila signed the Union of Krewo, pledging to convert to Catholicism and to promote conversion of his...
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    regent in Lithuania. Skirgaila was appointed after Jogaila signed the Union of Krewo in 1385 and was crowned King of Poland in 1386. The Lithuanians were...
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    with the Kingdom of Poland when he secured an agreement, known as the Union of Krewo (August 1385), to marry the twelve-year-old Queen of Poland Jadwiga...
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    pagan, concerning his potential marriage to Jadwiga. Jogaila signed the Union of Krewo, pledging to convert to Roman Catholicism and to promote his pagan subjects'...
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    titled himself as King of Lithuania, however in 1385 he agreed in the Union of Krewo that the Lithuanian monarchs would be titled only as the Grand Dukes...
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     1548–1572) resulted in an immense cultural flowering. In 1385, the Union of Krewo was signed between Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Jogaila, the Grand Duke...
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    before and during the Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385), ending with the Union of Krewo. Mieszko I of Poland was the first historical ruler of the first independent...
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    until Lithuania itself came under Polish influence, following the Union of Krewo and Union of Lublin, resulting in two countries merging into Polish-Lithuanian...
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    After the Union of Krewo (1385), it was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Union, which became the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin...
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    century, the Eastern Orthodox Church was dominant in White Ruthenia. The Union of Krewo in 1385 broke this monopoly and made Catholicism the religion of the...
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    resulted in the Union of Krewo, signifying a personal union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. The union commenced an enduring...
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    Poland when Queen Jadwiga was too young to control the state, and the Union of Krewo with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the brainchild of Lesser Poland's...
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    associations lack genuine evidence as the seal of Jogaila attached to the Union of Krewo and the 1382 seal of Skirgaila were not preserved. Despite that, it...
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    Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Herzogenbusch, and Hinzert Krewo ghetto, Baranowicze ghetto, and Stołpce ghetto See Luftwaffe guards at concentration...
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    the Union of Krewo, the personal union between Poland and Lithuania. Švitrigaila's alliance with the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Paul von Rusdorf...
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    However, soon after with the Union of Krewo (1385), it came under Polish influence as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Union. In 1386 King Władysław II Jagiełło...
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    of States and Nations. Penguin Press. Wehrmann, Martin (1904). Geschichte von Pommern. F.A. Perthes. p. 100. Turnbull, Stephen R. (22 October 2003). Crusader...
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  • a Peripheral Region. Routledge. p. 437+. ISBN 978-1-134-67876-1. Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński (2014). "The Chronology of Polish History c. 920–1230"...
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  • personal Polish–Lithuanian union ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty. The first in a series of formal "unions" was the Union of Krewo of 1385, whereby arrangements...
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    agreement, the Union of Krewo, set the two countries on a path of increasing closeness, eventually leading to the Polish–Lithuanian union. Jogaila was also...
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    Bryansk for faithful service. From 1385, after the formation of the Union of Krewo, this territory came under the influence of Poland. In 1586, a powerful...
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