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Article: Lithuania, Grand Duchy of, to 1569
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LITHUANIA, GRAND DUCHY OF, TO 1569
LITHUANIA, GRAND DUCHY OF, TO 1569.
The dates 1385 and 1569 mark important turning points in Polish historiography concerning the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a governing myth of which is that of state creation by marriages and free unions. In 1385 the Act of Union signed in Kr
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va (Krewo) marked the beginning of a federation between the Grand Duchy and the Polish crown that was to last until the third partition of Poland-Lithuania in 1795. Grand Duke Jogaila (Polish, Jagie
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o) agreed to marry the twelve-year-old queen of Poland, Jadwiga of ...