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Following the Napoleonic Wars, many sovereigns claimed the title of Polish king, duke or ruler, notably German (the King of Prussia was also the sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1918), Russian (the Congress Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1815 with the widely unrecognized title of King of Poland to the Emperor of Russia until 1915 ...
Przemysł II 1257–1290–1296: Henryk IV Probus 1258–1288–1290: Leszek II the Black 1241–1279–1288: Ottokar II of Bohemia c. 1233 – 1253 – 1278: Kunigunda of Halych 1245 – 1261 – 1285: Rudolf I of Bohemia titular king 1281–1306–1307: Elisabeth Richeza of Poland 1286–1335: Wenceslaus II of Bohemia 1271–1296–1305 ...
Prince Stanisław Poniatowski (November 23, 1754 – February 13, 1833) was a Polish nobleman, politician, diplomat, a member of the wealthy Poniatowski family and a nephew of the last king of Poland, Stanisław II Augustus. [1]
K.P. – Kingdom of Poland (1815–1918) P – Prussia Rz.O. – Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth R – Russia. RP – Republic of Poland (Contemporary Poland) S – Saxony S.A. – Papal State S.I.R. – Holy Roman Empire
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012) Korbel, Josef. Poland Between East and West: Soviet and German Diplomacy toward Poland, 1919–1933 (Princeton University Press, 1963) online; Polonsky, A. Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939: The Crisis of Constitutional Government (1972) Remak, Joachim.
Stanisław II August [a] (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; [b] 17 January 1732 – 12 February 1798), known also by his regnal Latin name Stanislaus II Augustus, and as Stanisław August Poniatowski (Lithuanian: Stanislovas Augustas Poniatovskis), was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1764 to 1795, and the last monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Taurus Poniatovii – a constellation created by Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt in 1777 to honor Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, last King of Poland. Nowadays, there are still Poniatowscy living in Poland, France, Mexico, Italy, Russia, the United States, Germany, and many other countries in the world.
The official name of the state was the Republic of Poland.In the Polish language, it was referred to as Rzeczpospolita Polska (abbr. RP), with the term Rzeczpospolita being a traditional name for the republic when referring to various Polish states, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (considered to be the First Polish Republic, Pierwsza Rzeczpospolita), and later, the current Third ...