Polish-Lithuanian Union - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 107. Chapters: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Order of precedence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Constitution of May 3, 1791, Offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Union of Lublin, History of Poland in the Early Modern era, Union of Krewo, Union of Horod o, Jagiellonian tapestries, Administrative division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Election Sejm of 1632, Union of Vilnius and Radom, Union of Mielnik, Union of Grodno, Polish-Ottoman alliance, Bishops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Union of Krakow and Vilna, Coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reciprocal Guarantee of Two Nations, Antemurale Christianitatis, Sanok Land, Free election, 1573. Excerpt: History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648-1764) covers a period in the history of Poland and Lithuania, from the time their joint state became the playground of wars and invasions fought on a great scale in the middle of the 17th century, to the beginning of the rule of Stanis aw August Poniatowski, the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the mid 17th century, the nobles' democracy, subjected to devastating wars, falling into internal disorder and then anarchy, gradually declined, making the once powerful Commonwealth vulnerable to foreign intervention. In 1648 the Cossack Khmelnytsky Uprising engulfed the south and east, and was soon followed by a Swedish invasion, which raged through core Polish lands. Warfare with the Cossacks and Russia left Ukraine divided, with the eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. John III Sobieski, fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonwealth's military might once more, in process helping decisively in 1683 to deliver Vienna from a Turkish onslaught. From there it all...