one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th-century Europe. The Commonwealth ceased to exist in the years 1772 - 1795, when its territory was partitioned among Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Austria. Poland regained its independence (as the Second Polish Republic) at the...
Located in the western central part of the country, Greater Poland is awash with history. Many of its towns and cities have a Germanic feel to them, as the region was ruled by Prussia and the German Empire for all of the 19th century. As such, there is a very interesting mix of archi...
Poland revolted from the empire, and the Polish Church began a reform in accordance with Gregory’s decrees. By the leading nobles Boleslaw was thoroughly hated as a despot; the masses of the people murmured under the burden of incessant wars; the clergy opposed the energetic reformation of ...
Japanese mass violence and its victims in the "Fifteen Years' War" (1931-45) Best of all, I want to sail up the Thames into the heart of London to destroy the Evil Empire once and for all. Freedom to all men of good will ... who follows? Tweet Display: Poland: In Defense of Ou...
a great market for Łódź’s manufactures opened in theRussian Empire. By the end of the 19th century, Łódź had become the leading center in Poland for the production of cotton textiles. Its other industries included the processing of wool, silk, jute, hemp, and leather and the ma...
led to the brief existence of an underground National Government in Warsaw. The suppression of the revolt led in 1864 to the abolition of the Congress Kingdom. Warsaw became a provincial city of theRussian Empire’s“Vistula Land.” A period of Russification was launched, and Varsovians abandon...
Flag Coat of Arms Motto: "You forgot Poland!" (Alternative: "Mazel tov!") Anthem: "Hej, sokoły" (same like Yugoslavian, just faster) (Alternative: "Tupegi") (World map by John Kerry, but... where the fuck is Poland?) Capital Wallsall or War Saw (Piła bojowa) renamed to ...
But his driving passion was the military expansion of French dominion, and, though at his fall he left France little larger than it had been at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, he was almost unanimously revered during his lifetime and until the end of the Second Empire under his ...