• article discusses the organizational and administrative structure of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative...
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    Hetmans of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuanian: etmonas) were the highest-ranking military officers, second only to the King, in the Polish–Lithuanian...
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    The PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, until the Third...
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    The military of the PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. It was established...
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    Companion (military rank) (category Pages with Polish IPA)
    ("citizen"). In the military of the PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian Commonwealth from 1503 to 1702. Their epithet is derived from large rear wings, which were intended to demoralize the enemy...
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    from the early Polish kingdom of the 12th century until the end of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. A respective office also existed in the Grand...
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  • a constituent part of the PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was created at the same time as the Commonwealth itself...
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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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    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 (PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, later...
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  • Novgorod. Offices in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. Stavilac Gudavičius, Edvardas; Petrauskas, Rimvydas. "Stalininkas". Vle.lt (in Lithuanian). Стольник...
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    state, the PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian 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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    title. From the end of the 14th century in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, there were...
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    1584; Lithuanian Grand Hetman from 1589; and Starost. Radziwiłł was one of the most talented commanders in the service of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth...
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  • – Royal Deputy Cup-bearer of Lithuania podczaszy ziemski – District Royal Deputy Cup-bearer Offices in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth v t e v t e...
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  • The knight class was a class of nobility in PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, a state that existed from 16th to 18th centuries. It included the nobility...
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    Polskiej). The PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian 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 PolishLithuanian Commonwealth Richard...
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