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When did the Polish flag appear? What colour is it actually? What is the proper way to display it? What should you do with it when a storm is coming? And who wrote poems about it? Worthy of its very ...

Discover why the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth collapsed once one of Europe’s largest and most powerful states. This video explores the internal conflicts, political weaknesses, and foreign ...

Sunday past was the 413th anniversary of the execution of Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake for heresies such as proposing that the Sun is a star and that the other stars in the sky are also Suns, ...

That Polishness is steeped in Catholicism has become a given in the minds of many, both Poles and foreigners. But the truth, as always, is more complicated. Read on to learn the story of Poland’s ...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Up next. Iris ... The image above is Jan III Sobieski (1629-1696), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, ... Lecturer in Early Modern History at ...

The flag’s designer is believed to be architect and engineer Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski (1891–1959), although this has never been a completely established fact. Some modern researchers claim that this ...

To understand modern Poland, start with a tour of its past. In the 17th century, as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it covered more territory than any other European state west of Russia (and ...

The Tatars of Polish-Lithuanian heritage are an indigenous population group that has resided since the 14th/15th century in the eastern lands of the former Commonwealth.

The constitution was passed on May 3, 1791, by the Great Sejm [grand parliament] of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and was Europe's first document of its kind, predating the famous French ...