A spectacular 100‑ducat gold coin minted for Polish King Sigismund III Vasa in 1621 will go under the hammer on Saturday with a starting price of PLN 5.5 million (€1.3 million), the highest ...

The best it managed to muster was 30,000 troops, so King Zygmunt III Waza called on Polish and Lithuanian noblemen for backup. However, most of them were reluctant to provide their forces. Finally, a ...

At its peak in the early 1200s, ... it was actually controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was repeatedly attacked by Crimean Tatars. ...

The presidents of Poland and Lithuania on Monday marked the 450th anniversary of a historic union that created the single Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth state.

The Commonwealth was one of the biggest countries in 16th/17th-century Europe, at its peak spanning about 1.2 million km2 and with a multi-ethnic population of about 11 million.

Officially founded on June 28 1812 by the parliament of the Duchy of Warsaw (see: NOTE 1), the confederation reintroduced a government model resembling the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...

The defeat of Shipka Peak, Bulgarian War of Independence / Source: ... By the end of the 18th century, four wars had been fought between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ...

You probably think that learning the history of Poland in a mere 10 minutes is impossible, even insane. Give Culture.pl 10 minutes to prove you wrong. In the year 966, Duke Mieszko I (Mye-shcko), who ...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-- which, at its peak, encompassed a huge swath of Europe -- had dominated much of the land, but Ukraine would also see the incursions of Hungarians, Ottomans ...