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  • The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the ... the house died out its head held the rank of prince of the Holy Roman Empire ...
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  • The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House ... reason for the common appellation "Poland-Lithuania" in discussions ...
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  • ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... the Swedish throne by his uncle, Charles IX of Sweden and a meeting of the ...
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  • Stephen III of Moldavia, or Stephen III (c. 1433 - July 2, 1504), ... quot; in more modern versions) was Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 ...
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  • The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...
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  • September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King ... He shared the privations and hardships of camp life with his soldiers ...
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  • chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels that won unprecedented ... He is best known internationally for Quo Vadis, a historical novel ...
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  • The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...
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  • The Doll describes the romantic infatuation of a man of action who is frustrated ... "Prus has no biography, he is one of the best-camouflaged of writers ...
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  • Mme. Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. Together with ... the battlefront, where she worked on the use of mobile radiography units to ...
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  • the White Knight, was a Voivode (Ruler) of Transylvania (from 1441), captain ... His emphasis on tactics and strategy instead of over-reliance on frontal assaults ...
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  • order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...
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  • The Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of ... Seven members of the dynasty were canonized or beatified by the Roman ...
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  • The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince ... Social unrest at the end of World War I led to the German Revolution ...
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  • The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... with the monarchy and its policy of continuing the war grew. Under ...
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  • The largest portion lies within the borders of Poland; the rest is within ... century on, after the Czech king Charles IV of the Luxembourg dynasty became ...
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  • 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling ... as Matthias Corvinus House, the second son of John Hunyadi--a successful ...
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  • Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, two of which—Matthew and ...
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  • Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...
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  • Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...
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