Discover why the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth collapsed once one of Europe’s largest and most powerful states. This video ...

Poland is emblematic of the fate of weak countries surrounded by strong ones, which may pay the price of the wars of the strong as well as their agreement. It has been partitioned three times in its ...

When the system worked well, the Commonwealth was a powerhouse, and it was their leader Jan Sobieski who relieved the siege of Vienna in 1683, defeating the Ottomans. Its neighbours exploited its ...

The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Maxim Buzhansky was outraged that Warsaw called part of Ukraine "the eastern ...

Born in Warsaw to a family of nobleman, Pulaski became one of the leading military commanders fighting to free the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Russian domination. In July 1777, following a ...

They began to see the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a threat to their absolute grip on power, and Poland paid dearly for it. Turbulent times and subsequent partitions followed. To commemorate ...

Christine explores Warsaw, pre and post WWII. At the Royal Castle, she learns about Warsaw’s role within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Next, she explains the history of Sigismund’s ...

1569 - Poland signs Union of Lublin with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to establish the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a major power in Europe unusual for its powerful parliament of noblemen and ...

The Tatars of Polish-Lithuanian heritage are an indigenous population group that has resided since the 14th/15th century in the eastern lands of the former Commonwealth. They have integrated and ...

where he taught for almost 50 years and wrote important scholarly works on the everyday and inner lives of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (a region he considered under-examined by ...