Kingdom of Poland

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

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