article discusses the organizational and administrative structure of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative...
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Hetmans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuanian: etmonas) were the highest-ranking military officers, second only to the King, in the Polish–Lithuanian...
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The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, or simply Poland–Lithuania, was a bi-confederal...
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of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth evolved over for centuries of its existence from the signing of the Union of Lublin to the third partition. The lands...
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Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and, from the 1569 Union of Lublin, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, until the Third...
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The military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth consisted of two separate armies of the Kingdom of Poland's Crown Army and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's...
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The General Sejm (Polish: sejm walny, Latin: comitia generalia) was the bicameral legislature of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was established...
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Companion (military rank) (category Pages with Polish IPA)
("citizen"). In the military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, (until the 1775 AD reforms) companion was usually a noble who served in the Army for a...
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Plater family (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
returned to Catholicism in the 17th century and held high offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and achieved magnate status in the 18th century, with...
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and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1503 to 1702. Their epithet is derived from large rear wings, which were intended to demoralize the enemy...
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Chancellor (Poland) (redirect from Grand Lithuanian Chancellor)
from the early Polish kingdom of the 12th century until the end of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. A respective office also existed in the Grand...
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a constituent part of the Polish–Lithuanian Senates (see also Offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), together with the Royal Council of Poland...
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The Grand Chancellor of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos didysis kancleris) was one of the highest offices in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The office functioned...
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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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The order of precedence for members of the Sejm (parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was created at the same time as the Commonwealth itself...
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The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648) covers a period in the history of Poland and Lithuania, before their joint state was subjected...
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Marszałek (redirect from Court Marshal (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth))
Lithuanian: Maršalka, Belarusian: Маршалак, Latin: Marescallus) was the title of one of the highest officials in the Polish royal court since the 13th...
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Szeptycki family (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
Szeptycki (in Polish spelling; or Шептицькі (Sheptytsky) in Ukrainian spelling) was a major noble family in Ruthenia (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, later...
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Pantler (Eastern Europe) (redirect from Stolnik of Lithuania)
Novgorod. Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Stavilac Gudavičius, Edvardas; Petrauskas, Rimvydas. "Stalininkas". Vle.lt (in Lithuanian). Стольник...
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Union of Lublin (redirect from Union of Poland and Lithuania)
state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest countries in Europe at the time. It replaced the personal union of the Crown of the Kingdom...
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of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were one of the highest ranking officials who could sit in the Senate of Poland. They were the officials in charge...
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Standard-bearer (Eastern Europe) (redirect from Great Chorazy of Lithuania)
title. From the end of the 14th century in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, there were...
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Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł (redirect from Christopher Radvila "the Lightning")
1584; Lithuanian Grand Hetman from 1589; and Starost. Radziwiłł was one of the most talented commanders in the service of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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Deputy cup-bearer (redirect from Great Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of Lithuania)
– Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of Lithuania podczaszy ziemski – District Royal Deputy Cup-bearer Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth v t e v t e...
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The knight class was a class of nobility in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a state that existed from 16th to 18th centuries. It included the nobility...
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Polskiej). The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth also had an office of Sejmik Marshal. In the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, from 1861, the chairman of the Provincial...
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The Poles in Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian...
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The Polish–Swedish union was a short-lived personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. It...
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Szlachta (redirect from Polish gentry)
realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising...
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Poczet (category Pages with Polish IPA)
fought in the second or third line and was responsible for guarding his back and flanks in a battle. Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Richard...
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