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    The Statutes of Casimir the Great or Piotrków-Wiślica Statutes (Polish: Statuty wiślicko-piotrkowskie) are a collection of laws issued by Casimir III...
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    Casimir III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became...
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    Greater Poland (redirect from Great Poland)
    of Crown Poland into two entities called Greater and Lesser Poland had its roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346–1362, where the laws of...
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    the furnishings of churches and liturgical items. Polish law was first codified in the Statutes of Casimir the Great (the Piotrków–Wiślica Statutes)...
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    Pospolite ruszenie (category History of Poland during the Jagiellonian dynasty)
    Ages. The earliest mentions of the term can be traced to the reign of Władysław I the Elbow-high (1320–1333). Statutes of Casimir the Great made the service...
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    the 15th century was based on the Statutes of Casimir the Great and the judicial province was Lesser Poland. Its capital city was the urban centre of...
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    Statuta Regni Poloniae (category Legal history of Poland)
    by the second part of its title as Syntagmata (Greek for compilation or collation). The work in Latin contains the statutes of Casimir the Great, Władysław...
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    Madrid the 23rd of September 1817., api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1818/jan/28 Higginbotham, pp. 146–47. "Chronological Table of the Statutes" (1959...
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  • background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland. Centuries: 5th · 6th · 7th ·...
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  • Slavery in Poland (category History of Poland during the Piast dynasty)
    of Casimir the Great issued in Wiślica. Although there are indications that some form of slavery, in practice and law, continued at least till the end...
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    roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346–1362, where the laws of "Greater Poland" – the northern part of the country – were codified in the Piotrków...
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    houses in Europe. The great triumph of his reign was bringing Prussia under Polish rule. The rule of Casimir corresponded to the age of "new monarchies"...
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    Wiślica Statutes and Statutes of Casimir the Great also used the term province. Eventually, during the unification of Poland after the fragmentation, the provinces...
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    Janusz Suchywilk (category Chancellors of Poland)
    considered as the co-author of King Casimir III of Poland's statutes. An advocate of Kazko IV Prince of Słupsk for the Polish throne after the death of King Kazimierz...
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    exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth is an exhibition of the most valuable objects from the collection of the National Library of Poland in the baroque...
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    The Statutes of Lithuania, originally known as the Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, were a 16th-century codification of all the legislation of...
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    in Kalisz. After the unification of Poland, the statute was then ratified by some subsequent Polish Kings: Casimir III in 1334, Casimir IV in 1453, and...
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    Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) (category Voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
    complicated by the fact that in Ruthenian lands there were no well-defined boundaries of duchies and provinces. In 1366, King Casimir the Great confirmed his...
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    was the redactor of the codification of Polish criminal and civil law made at the behest of King Casimir the Great. He was also the author of the Wiślica...
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    dynasty and the son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria. Related to the House of Habsburg, John Albert was groomed to become emperor in the Holy Roman Empire...
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  • disobedience to the Grand Master, and the citizens of Toruń rebel against the Teutonic Knights, beginning the conflict. March 6 – Casimir IV of Poland renounces...
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    Wiślica (redirect from Sack of Wiślica)
    well as the place of reading out of Wiślica Statutes. His son, king Casimir the Great built the towns fortified walls with three gates and the castle which...
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    Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area (category Metropolitan areas of Poland)
    The Dybów Castle was the place where in 1454 King Casimir IV Jagiellon issued the famous Statutes of Nieszawa, covering a set of privileges for the Polish...
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  • libel. The Charter is ratified again by subsequent Polish Kings: Casimir the Great of Poland in 1334, Casimir IV of Poland in 1453, and Sigismund I the Old...
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    member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV and younger brother of Kings John I Albert and Alexander I Jagiellon. He was nicknamed "the Old"...
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    of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1758. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list...
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    Nanker (category Bishops of Kraków)
    In 1952, the beatification process for Nanker was resumed and he is well known in Polish popular culture thanks to the movie "Casimir the Great" in which...
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    in what came to be known as the Lwów Oath, Sigismund's son King John II Casimir Vasa made a solemn vow on behalf of the entire Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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    weak at first, since the szlachta would not cooperate without concessions from Casimir that were formalized in the Statutes of Nieszawa promulgated in...
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    proposed. The King's wardrobe account shows Garter habits first issued in the autumn of 1348. Also, its original statutes required that each member of the Order...
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