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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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    Didysis seimas or Ketverių metų seimas) was a Sejm (parliament) of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw between 1788 and 1792....
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  • article discusses the organizational and administrative structure of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth was a confederative...
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    form in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth period between 1572 and 1791. The "free election" was abolished by the Constitution of 3 May 1791, which established...
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    bribed Sejm members to paralyze its proceedings, causing foreign occupation, dominance and manipulation of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and its...
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    The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (Polish: I Rzeczpospolita), was a federative real...
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    without the approval of that body. The Sejm of Poland and the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were merged into the Sejm of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth...
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    Seimas (redirect from Lithuanian Sejm)
    Nemunas. The Seimas traces its origins to the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the Seimas...
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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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  • Confederated sejm (Polish: sejm skonfederowany) was a form of sejm in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century. After 1764, sejms were frequently...
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  • The sejm (Lithuanian: Seimas, Ruthenian: Соймъ, Polish: Sejm) was an early parliament in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was active from 1445 to 1569...
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    with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, when it began to be commonly used to denote the Polish part of the joint Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The idea of the...
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    Permanent Council (category Sejm of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth)
    created in 1775 by the Partition Sejm, when Empress Catherine the Great of Russia and her ambassador to the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, Otto Magnus von...
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  • Sejm (Polish: Sejm Niemy), also known as the Mute Sejm, is the name given to the session of the Sejm parliament of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth...
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    Grodno Sejm (Polish: Sejm grodzieński; Lithuanian: Gardino seimas) was the last Sejm (session of parliament) of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. The Grodno...
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    The 1632 free election in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth commenced between September 27 and November 8, 1632. It then extended to November 13, 1632...
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    The Marshal of the Sejm (Polish: Marszałek Sejmu, pronounced [marˈʂawɛk ˈsɛjmu]) is the speaker (chair) of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament...
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  • Election sejm (Polish: Sejm elekcyjny; Lithuanian: Elekcinis seimas) was one of three kinds of special general sejm in pre-partition PolishLithuanian Commonwealth...
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    III Sobieski (Polish: Jan III Sobieski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtʂɛt͡ɕi sɔˈbʲɛskʲi]); Lithuanian: Jonas III Sobieskis (Lithuanian pronunciation:...
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    1812. In the history of Polish parliament, it succeeded the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was followed by the Sejm of the Congress Poland...
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    The Partition Sejm (Polish: Sejm Rozbiorowy) was a Sejm lasting from 1773 to 1775 in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, convened by its three neighbours...
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    came to the aid of the Lithuanians. The Sejm of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth in Piotrków Trybunalski passed extraordinary resolutions for the recruitment...
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    The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth that took place between 1772 and 1795, toward the end of the 18th...
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    century, the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth had been reduced from the status of a European power to that of a country under major influence of, and almost...
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    (Lithuanian: Stanislovas Augustas Poniatovskis), was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1764 to 1795, and the last monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian...
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    The Sejm (Polish: [sɛjm] ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the lower house of the...
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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...
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  • Pacification sejm (Polish: Sejm pacyfikacyjny) refers to a type of the sejm (parliament session) in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. The pacification sejms were...
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    A sejm court (Polish: Sąd sejmowy) was a Polish judicial body that existed during the First Polish Republic. The sejm court was used as a means to "judge...
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    Tadeusz Rejtan (category Members of the Sejm of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth)
    Рэйтан; Lithuanian: Tadas Reitanas; 20 August 1742 – 8 August 1780) was a nobleman from the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. He was a member of the Sejm of the...
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