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    judiciary capitals of Poland), Grodno (de facto capital of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth in the 1580s and then the general sejm location alongside Warsaw)...
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    The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or...
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    the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuanian: etmonas) were the highest-ranking military officers, second only to the King, in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth...
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  • organizational and administrative structure of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative mixed monarchy of the...
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    of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth consisted of two separate armies of the Kingdom of Poland's Crown Army and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Grand Ducal...
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    Subdivisions of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth evolved over for centuries of its existence from the signing of the Union of Lublin to the third partition...
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    The General Sejm (Polish: sejm walny, Latin: comitia generalia) was the bicameral legislature of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. It was established...
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    of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth Grand coat of arms of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth Coat of arms of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth design...
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    partitions of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination...
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    Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense, it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky...
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    election of 1576 was the second royal election to be held in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, which took place in 1575/1576. In the night of June 28–29, 1574...
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    The 1704 PolishLithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the PolishLithuanian throne. In early 1700, King of Poland...
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    The 1697 PolishLithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the PolishLithuanian throne. On June 17, 1696, King John...
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    place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The growth of power in the...
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  • Royal town may refer to: A place with royal patronage in the United Kingdom Royal burgh, in Scotland Royal city in PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, a historical...
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  • The history of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648) covers a period in the history of Poland and Lithuania, before their joint state was subjected...
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    Grand Duchy of Lithuania and, from the 1569 Union of Lublin, in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. The magnate...
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    Lithuania in the PolishLithuanian union and in fact transforming the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth into a PolishLithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth (Polish:...
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  • Royal City may refer to: Royal city in PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, a historical type of cities Royal cities, a historic title of Czech cities and...
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  • The history of the PolishLithuanian 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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    class in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (including during period of foreign rule 1795–1918) consisting of Lithuanians from...
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  • PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was created at the same time as the Commonwealth itself – at the Lublin Sejm in 1569. The Commonwealth was a union, in...
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    Polish Golden Age continued into the mid-17th century, when the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was ravaged by the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–57) and by the...
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    invasion of the PolishLithuanian fiefdom Livonia. Swedish forces succeeded in taking the city of Riga after a siege. The Commonwealth, focused on a war...
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  • as "Nobles' Commonwealth" (1505–1795, i.e., before the union). In the contemporary political doctrine of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, "our state...
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    fought between the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and Russia. Hostilities began in October 1632 when Russian forces tried to capture the city of Smolensk. Small...
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    Great Sejm (category 1788 in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth)
    Constitution. The Polish Constitution was designed to redress long-standing political defects of the federative Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its system...
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    The Polish–Russian War was a conflict fought between the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia from 1609 to 1618. Russia had been experiencing...
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    szlachta (nobility), clergy, cities, or military forces in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth for the attainment of stated aims. A konfederacja often...
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    Poles in Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census...
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