Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a union of Poland and Lithuania which controlled much of Eastern Central Europe from 1569 to 1795.
UnderstandIts predecessors, the kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, had centuries of history beforehand. Poland–Lithuania was a beacon for liberty in a time when absolute monarchy was the norm in Europe.
DestinationsDue to its history as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the westernmost part of Ukraine has a Catholic majority, in contrast to the rest of majority-Eastern Orthodox…
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