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3 unusual facts about Piast


Bolesław Wysłouch

The following year he moved to the Polish People's Party "Piast", where he stayed until 1923, after which he moved to the Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" with which he was involved until 1925.

Chjeno-Piast

The merger was passed during a meeting in the manor of senator L. Hammerling's from Lanckorona and at times it is referred to as Pact of Lanckorona.

Wysłouch

Bolesław Wysłouch (1855–1937), a Polish socialist senator and co-founder of the Polish People's Party "Piast".


Bobrowice, Krosno Odrzańskie County

Part of the Silesian Duchy of Głogów under the Piast duke Konrad I from 1251 on, the settlement in 1476 belonged to the inheritance of Barbara of Hohenzollern, widow of the last Głogów duke Henry XI, and therefore claimed by her father Elector Albert Achilles of Brandenburg.

Duchy of Masovia

While Siemowit's son Duke Konrad II (1264–1294) moved his residence to Czersk he and his brother Boleslaus II entered into a long-term conflict over the Polish seniorate with their Kuyavian relatives and the Silesian Piasts, which estranged them from the Piast monarchy.

Germany–Poland relations

At the same time when the Kingdom of Germany grew out of the German stem duchies of East Francia in the 10th century, the West Slavic Polan tribes under the Piast prince Mieszko I about 960 were able to establish a sovereign state around Poznan and Gniezno in an area later called Greater Poland.

Grotów, Żary County

Against their resistance, it became part of the Silesian Duchy of Żagań under the Piast duke Jan I, after his father-in-law Elector Rudolf III of Saxony had devastated the settlement.

House of Tarnowski

The history of the family started with the trusted advisor of the last Piast kings Comes Spytek z Melsztyna, the progenitor of the Tarnowski-Melsztyński-Jarosławski family.

Jan I the Scholastic

On 24 February 1327, together with the other Piast Dukes, Jan paid homage to King John of Bohemia in Opawa.

Janusz of Masovia

Janusz III of Masovia (1502–1526), son of Konrad III Rudy, last male of the Masovian Piast dynasty

Kujawy, Poland

The first mention of the village dates to 1383, when the Piast Prince Ladislaus II titled himself as Duke of Opole, Prudnik, Dobra, and Kujawy.

Leszek I the White

On 24 November 1227, during a diet of the Polish Piast dukes at Gąsawa, he was assassinated, probably on orders from Duke Swietopelk II of Pomerelia.

Leszek of Racibórz

After his death, as a result of the arbitrary decision of King John of Bohemia (and despite the strong resistance of the other Piast rulers in Upper Silesia who were their closest male relatives), the Duchy of Racibórz was given to Duke Nicholas II of Opawa, who claimed the rights of his wife Anna, Leszek's oldest sister.

Military of the Kingdom of Poland

Military of the Kingdom of Poland during the Piast and Jagiellon dynasties (10th–16th centuries)

Neuzelle

Henry had acquired the strip of former Lubusz Land up to Fürstenberg (today's Eisenhüttenstadt) from the Silesian duke Bolesław II Rogatka in turn for his mediation in the duke's conflict with his Piast brother Henry III the White.

Piast Institute

With a Board of Directors composed of Polish-American leaders, an international network of Institute Fellows, and a staff led by Dr. Radzilowski as president and Mrs. Skrzyniarz as executive vice president, Piast Institute has evolved into the only think tank in North America devoted to Polish and Polish-American affairs.

Princely Capital City of Płock

Formerly, in the period of the rule of the first monarchs of Piast State, like also before Baptism of Poland in 966, in the 10th century Płock as the capital castle were one of monarchal seats, among others of prince Mieszko I and of king Bolesław I Chrobry, which on the Płock Tumskie Hill over the Vistula River raised one's palatium.

Rebellion of mayor Albert

The new king, John of Bohemia, continued to claim the Polish royal title and moreover sought to vassalize the Piast dukes of the adjacent Silesian region.

Selencia

Selencia is mentioned twice in the first book of Gallus Anonymus' Gesta principum Polonorum (The Poles' princes' deeds), a chronicle composed in Piast Poland between 1112 and 1118 to glorify the Piast dynasty in general, and the contemporary Piast ruler Boleslaw III Wrymouth in particular.

Stadion Piast

Piast won the match by 2:1 and first goalscorer was Ricardo Cavalcante Mendes.

Thaddeus Radzilowski

With its internal staff and its worldwide network of Fellows, Piast develops and disseminates information through the development of position papers, conferences, seminars, popular articles, publications, teaching materials, exhibits and academic studies.

Wenceslaus II, Duke of Opava

On 27 December 1428, he participated in the Battle of Stary Wielisław, in which John I, the last Piast duke of Münsterberg, died.


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