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History of Poland
The
history of
Poland
results from the
migrations of Slavs
who established permanent settlements on the
Polish lands
during the
Early Middle Ages
. In 966 AD, Duke
Mieszko I
of the
Piast dynasty
adopted Western Christianity
; in 1025 Mieszko's son
Boleslaw I Chrobry
formally established a
medieval kingdom
. The period of the
Jagiellonian dynasty
in the 14th-16th centuries brought close ties with the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
, a cultural
Renaissance in Poland
and territorial expansion that culminated in the establishment of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
in 1569.
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