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- 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 C.E. to 1547 ... in Church Slavonic) was a long-awaited son of Vasili III. Upon his father ...11 KB (1,776 words) - 06:37, 11 March 2024
- ) (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 ...20 KB (2,908 words) - 15:22, 7 October 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... waged war but favored peace. The making of war and peace was discussed ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or ... The ancient Balts of this time actively participated in the trading ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- – 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 ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ... * Duchy of Livonia (Inflanty), a joint domain of the Crown and the ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
