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unusual facts about Podlaskie



Administrative divisions of Lithuania

Just before the Union of Lublin (1569), the four voivodeships of (Kiev, Podlaskie, Bracław, and Wołyń) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were transferred to the Polish Crown by direct order of Sigismund II Augustus while the Duchy of Livonia, acquired in 1561, became a condominium (joint domain) of both Lithuania and Poland.

Augustus III of Poland

English translation: August III, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (i.e. Galicia), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, Chernihiv, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-elector.

Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk

Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk (born January 6, 1961 in Lachy, Podlaskie) is a former male triple jumper from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

January Uprising

It is of interest to note that it persisted in Samogitia and Podlaskie, where the Greek-Catholic population, outraged and persecuted for their religious convictions, clung longest to the revolutionary banner.

Kordon

Kordon, Poland, a village in Gmina Narewka of Hajnówka County of Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Lithuanian Metrica

By 1569, when the regions of Podlaskie, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev were separated from Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and incorporated into Kingdom of Poland, the books which concerned these regions, were removed from the Lithuanian Metrica, and merged into the Polish Metrica.

Piotr Markiewicz

Piotr Markiewicz (born September 23, 1973 in Sejny, Podlaskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade).


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