Kingdom of Poland (Polish Królestwo Polskie, Latin Regnum Poloniae) was the name of Poland from 1000/1025 to 1795:
- Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385) from the early Piast dynasty
- Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) under the Jagiellon dynasty
- Kingdom of Poland, or Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, as part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569−1791 (1795)
- General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland (1812-1813)
- Congress Poland, autonomous Polish state in personal union with the Russian Empire, 1815−1831
- Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918), proposed puppet state of the German and Austrian Empire
Famous quotes containing the words kingdom of, kingdom and/or poland:
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:25.
Jesus.
“There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics.... Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”
—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
“It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
—Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)