The 1669 Polish–Lithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the Polish–Lithuanian throne. On 16 September 1668, King John...
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The 1674 Polish–Lithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the Polish–Lithuanian throne. On November 10, 1673, Michael...
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Election sejm (Polish: Sejm elekcyjny; Lithuanian: Elekcinis seimas) was one of three kinds of special general sejm in pre-partition Polish–Lithuanian...
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The 1648 free election in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth began on 6 October 1648, and ended on November 17 of the same year. The new King of Poland...
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Royal elections in Poland (Polish: wolna elekcja, lit. free election) were the elections of individual kings, rather than dynasties, to the Polish throne...
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Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (category Articles containing Lithuanian-language text)
was the ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 29 September 1669 until his death in 1673. Michael...
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(1386-1572). Some historians argue that the Polish Golden Age continued into the mid-17th century, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was ravaged by the Khmelnytsky...
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The Royal Castle in Warsaw (Polish: Zamek Królewski w Warszawie) is a state museum and a national historical monument, which formerly served as the official...
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into it. Nevertheless, before the 1576 Polish–Lithuanian royal election a congress of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's nobles was held on 20 April 1576 in...
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Senate of Poland (redirect from Senate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were incorporated into the Royal Senate of Poland in order to form the Senate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In addition...
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tradition of free election of monarchs made it a uniquely electable position in Europe (16th to 18th centuries). The first Polish ruler whose existence...
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Szlachta (redirect from Polish gentry)
szlachta (Polish: [ˈʂlaxta] ; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian...
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Legnica (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
Christian presented his candidacy to the Polish throne, however, in the 1669 Polish–Lithuanian royal election he wasn't chosen as King. In 1676, Legnica...
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John III Sobieski (category Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
III Sobieski (Polish: Jan III Sobieski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtʂɛt͡ɕi sɔˈbʲɛskʲi]); Lithuanian: Jonas III Sobieskis (Lithuanian pronunciation:...
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Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski (category Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
November 1662) – was a Polish nobleman, general, Lithuanian Field Hetman from 1654, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania and Lithuanian Great-Quartermaster since...
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The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764) covers a period in the history of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from the time their...
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Union of Kėdainiai (redirect from Swedish-Lithuanian union)
of 17 August, which put Lithuania under Swedish protection, the Swedish–Lithuanian union's purpose was to end the Lithuanian union with Poland and to...
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History of Poland in the early modern period (1569–1795) (category Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
then elective kings. The Union of Lublin of 1569 constituted the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a more closely merged continuation of the already existing...
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History of Poland (redirect from Polish history)
union with Lithuania. This agreement transferred Ukraine from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to Poland and transformed the Polish–Lithuanian polity into...
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Radziwiłł family (category Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Lithuania, later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Prussia. The family produced many individuals notable in Lithuanian, Polish...
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Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host (category 1648 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
office was electoral. All elections, except for the first one, took place in the Senior Council in Chyhyryn which, until 1669, served as the capital of...
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House of Vasa (category Articles containing Lithuanian-language text)
House of Vasa or Wasa (Swedish: Vasaätten, Polish: Wazowie, Lithuanian: Vazos) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden. Its members...
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Liberum veto (category Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
liberum veto (Latin for "free veto") was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a form of unanimity voting rule that allowed...
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List of heads of state of Poland (redirect from List of Polish presidents)
formal powers and the insignia of the Polish Second Republic to President-elect Wałęsa in a ceremony at the Warsaw Royal Castle on 22 December 1990. The sole...
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Cossack Hetmanate (category 17th century in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Ukraine as part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The capital was the city of Chyhyryn. After the Treaty of Andrusovo, in 1669 the capital was transferred...
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Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland (category Polish Roman Catholics)
of Lithuania, on 27 February 1670 in the Jasna Góra Monastery. The marriage was suggested by the Polish envoy Andrzej Olszowski in November 1669 in order...
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Aleksander Polanowski (category Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
election in 1669 was the major candidate for the Polish Crow and therefore ruler of “The Commonwealth” (the whole Realm – nowadays Poland, Lithuania,...
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Wawel Castle (redirect from Royal Castle in Cracow)
The Wawel Royal Castle (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvavɛl] ; Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically...
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