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4 unusual facts about Rzeczpospolita


Alexandrov Kremlin

The Alexandovsky Kremlin was also the place where the tsar received ambassadors from many countries of Europe, such as Sweden, Denmark, Austria, England, and Rzeczpospolita.

Mikołaj Daniłowicz

Mikołaj Daniłowicz (c. 1558 – May 30, 1624) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman and politician.

Order of the Builders of People's Poland

The reverse has a red enameled medallion with, in gold, the letters PRL, standing for Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa - People's Republic of Poland (orders awarded before the state's name changed in 1952 have the letters RP for Rzeczpospolita Polska).

Wincenty Kadłubek

These ideas led to the Nobles' Democracy in Poland, for it is in his works, that for the first time the terms res publica (see Commonwealth and Rzeczpospolita) were used in the context of Poland.


Konderski Coat of Arms

Tomasz Lenczewski, Nobilitacja neofitów za Stanisława Augusta in: Żydzi polscy, an extra in Rzeczpospolita of 27 May 2008 (pl)


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