Search results for "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House ... Grand Prince). Their realm, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, chiefly meant monarch ...
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  • Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the title of Grand Duke, but more correctly High King ...
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  • bordered by Black Ruthenia, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Principality ... the rising powers of centralized Grand Duchy of Lithuania and The Kingdom ...
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  • The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place on July 15, 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...
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  • Sukowiborg/Niasviž, near Mirz, Polish Lithuania – November 22, 1800, ... born and grew up in Mir, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now in Belarus ...
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  • the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Novgorod ... as continue its attacks on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom ...
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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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  • – March 13, 1881) was the tsar (emperor) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until ... Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and ...
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  • August 25, 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 ... had to flee from Moscow to Grand Duchy of Lithuania). Meanwhile, diplomatic ...
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  • 1797), was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth ... Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Vilna Gaon displayed extraordinary ...
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  • smaller uprisings by the Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against ... chief escaped to Hrodna in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...
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  • (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... he decreed that the status of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was "tied to ...
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  • Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... largest country in Europe. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania stretched across ...
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  • some of his clan sought refuge in Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They were given ... . They all mostly settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, lands that are ...
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  • the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, lasting in this ... specific voting instructions. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania had its own separate ...
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  • and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...
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  • actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...
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  • were later incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Of the principalities ... On February 2, 1386, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom ...
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  • The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ) which refers to Hitler's, rather than Napoleon's, invasion ...
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  • , the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the ... Gediminas (1275–1341) for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Kiev was reduced ...
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  • The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... also successfully raided the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the campaign ...
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  • * The Tatar yoke and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania * The Moscovite period ... division of that land between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the west and ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... regimes. The conflict and the two sets of alliances can be seen as representing ...
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  • a long association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by uniting to form ... the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state ...
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  • traditions dating back to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian ... . The area was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a component of ...
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  • warm expressive voice. Gielgud is a member of the short list of entertainers ... manor dating back to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now a town in Marijampolė ...
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  • The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... cultural and political center of Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1323, it happened ...
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  • has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...
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  • plum|Grand Duchy of Lithuania lightgrey|Duchy of Courland - Polish ... Eventually, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania controlled north-west and ...
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  • transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... powerful northwestern rival, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for control over ...
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  • The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...
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  • , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... It is well-known for the elegant onion domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral ...
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