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The Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and the Downfall of the Teutonic Order
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illustratus · 2 years
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Grunwald by Wojciech Kossak
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unhonestlymirror · 3 months
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Stamp dedicated to Ivanko Sushyk, the hero of the Battle of Žalgiris (Grunwald)
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marsinout · 4 days
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Prussia, pointing Poland with the sword: Call an ambulance! Lithuania, releasing his sword: BUT NOT FOR ME AND FELIKS!
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propalahramota · 2 months
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Putin's claim that The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a "russian" duchy is so hilarious to anyone who knows anything about the medieval/early modern history of the region
(aka the Duchy of moscow got owned militarily by the GDL on numerous occasions)
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apebook · 7 months
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lady-nightmare · 11 months
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Bitwa pod Grunwaldem 3D
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angie-massei · 4 months
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1410. (He/him for Poland and Prussia, she/her for Czech)
After Grunwald battle, Czech knights received a camel for their help.
Please, look at these medieval camels:
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ars-polonia · 2 months
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Jan Matejko, Bitwa pod Grunwaldem (The Battle of Grunwald) [fragment]
1878, oil on canvas,
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makwandis · 7 months
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A standoff between Lithuania and Prussia not long before the battle of Grunwald in 1410 (light shines on the righteous and fortunate)
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polish-art-tournament · 5 months
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round 3 minigame
ok so i was going to make this a minigame once matejko is out of the tournament, but since it turns out you guys love him so much... favourite matejko lets-cram-as-many-people-as-possible-into-this historical painting minigame. ft the shortest possible contextual explanations ever for those not familiar with polish history (would be longer but i'm queuing this on the evening before the elections and i need to go to sleep early) (hello, future me, i hope the elections went Not Terrible)
meet our contestants!
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The Battle of Grunwald: so basically in 1410 Poles with their king Jagiełło and their amazing Lithuanian allies defeated the Teutonic Order in a great battle and it became super symbolically important bc wahooo victory over the Germans (remember all of these were painted while Poland was partitioned). The guy in the white cape is the grand master of the Teutonic Order, the one in red in the middle is the Lithuanian ruler prince Vytautas. i feel like im back in my 2014 hetalia days
The Prussian Homage: blah blah the Teutonic Order evolved into the state of Prussia and in 1525 they decided to become the subjects of the Polish king. Another one nicely symbolic if you live in the 19th century and want to show the middle finger to the Prussians/Germans.
The Union of Lublin: basically when Poland and Lithuania became one country (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) in 1569. The guy with the cross is the king Zygmunt II August (in the round 1 minigame we had Simmler's painting of him and his dying wife Barbara Radziwiłłówna)
Bathory at Pskov: Russian forces asking the king Stefan Batory for peace during the siege of Pskov (you guessed it, this one is to show the middle finger to the Russians). ngl i dont know shit about this period in history so. go read up on it on wikipedia. King Batory is the manspreading chad in the gold cape
Rejtan (The Fall of Poland): Tadeusz Rejtan was a deputy in the Partition Sejm of 1773 (basically russia going ''heyyyyy poland and lithuania, could you pls officially agree to give away like half of ur territories to us and prussia and austria'') (fr im having 2014 hetalia flashbacks writing this) and he hated it all so much he bared his chest about it and tried to not let the other deputies out of the chamber.
Constitution of 3 May 1791: first constitution in Europe, second in the world babeyyyy. big win for the Polish enlightenment. attempt to reform the country while it was at its lowest. many cool ideas. so cool that russia, prussia and austria felt it was time to wipe the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the map :/ so sadly there wasnt enough time for the reforms to work
theres of course many more matejko paintings with a shitton of historical characters, but i think these are the most famous. have fun!
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natalieironside · 1 year
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By the time the Lithuanians annihilated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald (as depicted awesomely in my banner image), Lithuania had already converted to Catholicism ages ago for separate political and diplomatic reasons.
No matter how bad you are at your job, you will never be half as bad at your job as the Teutonic Knights were bad at crusading.
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polishdynasty · 11 months
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QUEEN ANNE OF CILLI (1386 — 21 may 1416)
Anne of Cilli was born probably in the 1386 as a daughter of William, Count of Cilli and Anne of Poland. Her father died when she was around ten years of age and her mother had remarried to Ulrich, Duke of Teck. Because of that, Anne was left under the care of her father's brother, Herman. According to the legend, in 1399 King Jadwiga of Poland on her deathbed told Władysław Jagiełło, her current husband, to marry Anne of Cilli so he could still rule Poland. Anne was a granddaughter of Casimir The Great, the last king from the Piast dynasty, so having a descendant of him as a wife would strengthen Władysław's position on the throne. One year later a delegation composed of Jan of Oblichów, Jan of Ostrowiec and Hinczka of Rogów came to Cilli with a proposition of marriage between King of Poland and Anne. Herman, Count of Cilli immediately agreed and in 16th July 1401 Countess come to Cracow. She was welcomed by Poles with joy, but according to the Jan Długosz her future husband wasn't that happy. The wedding was postponed and Anne sent to a convent to learn polish language. Finally in 29th January 1402, in the Wawel Cathedral, their wedding took place. There were many guests, including Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania. One year later Anne was crowned a Queen of Poland and was able meet her mother for the first time since the Duchess left Celje.
The marriage of Anne and Władysław was quite cold at the beginning. The king often left the capital, leaving his wife alone. He was also known to be suspicious, introverted person, so it took him a while to trust Anne. It also didn't help that the queen had been accused of marital infidelity several times. The first time was in 1407: Klemens of Moskorzew accused Anne of cheating on her husband with Jakub of Kobylan and Mikołaj Chrząstowski and the proof was supposed to be the sudden collapse of the floor in Queen's chamber. King at first believed in that and locked Jakub. Polish nobles during the convention in Niepołomice defended Anne and the woman was found innocent. But year later she was accused of having an affair with Andrzej of Tęczyn — this case did not reach a public hearing. In 1411 the Queen was accused of having the infidelity with archbishop Kurowski, but some sources says that actually Anne accused the man for a inappropriate attitude to her person. Kurowski died during a trip to the royal court to clear things up. For a first few years of marriage Anne of Cilli didn't give a birth to a child. It is known that she had several miscarriages. In the 1408 their first and only child, Princess Jadwiga, was born. Władysław was disappointed that the baby turned out to be a girl, but for a many years she was considered the heiress of the kingdom and a possible future king.
Anne hated the Teutonic Order as much as her husband and unlike her predecessor, urged Władysław to go to war with them. And he did that. In 1410 after the battle of Grunwald, Jagiełło sent two laters to inform about his victory: one of them was sent to Anne. It is the proof that their relationship develop during the years and Władysław started to like her and see as a friend and partner.
The Queen accompanied her husband during the trip to Hungary, where Jagiełło was negotiating with Sigismund of Luxembourg. There she met with her cousin, Barbara, who was the second wife of Sigismund. Thanks to Anne, the polish regalia, which King Louis The Great once brought with him to Buda, returned to Poland. Anne also visited Lithuania and observe the Christanisation of Samogitia. In early 1415 she travelled with her husband and even met Alexander of Moldavia in Sniatyn.
Anne came back to Cracow and Władysław travelled to Lithuania. Probably at the end of 1415, the queen got sick. In 1416 a special envoy was sent to king with a information that Anne was seriously ill. Despite the news, Jagiełło didn't hurry back to Cracow. He approached the capitol in May and few days later, 21th May 1416 the queen died. She was buried in the Wawel's Cathedral, near to altor of Saint Dorothy.
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unhonestlymirror · 3 months
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Jan Matejko was like: Mmmm half-naked Samogitians😏😏😏😏🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Meanwhile, how Samogitians most likely looked back then:
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marysmirages · 2 years
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The Battle of Grunwald (2020)
The Battle of Grunwald was fought on 15 July 1410 during the  Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War.
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council-of-beetroot · 8 months
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Now as the second post I am now wondering if all of Poland's horses are related because they are all oddly similar
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Or maybe that second horse and the third horse are the same horse that he has had from the Battle of Grunwald 1410 to around 1939.
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