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Map showing campaigns in Livonia, 1558–1560. File:Map of Poland and Lithuania after the Union of Lublin (1569).svg: Large SVG: Map of the w:Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin in 1569. File:Livonian war map (1570-1577).svg: Small SVG: Map showing areas of Russian and Polish-Lithuanian forces, 1570–1577.
signed by Poland–Lithuania; 1704–1706 Civil war in Poland (1704–1706) (part of the Great Northern War) Warsaw Confederation Supported by: Swedish Empire: Sandomierz Confederation Supported by: Tsardom of Russia: Warsaw Confederation victory Treaty of Altranstädt; 1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession: Poland loyal to Stanisław I ...
Map showing campaigns in Livonia, 1558–1560. File:Map of Poland and Lithuania after the Union of Lublin (1569).svg: Large SVG: Map of the w:Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin in 1569. File:Livonian war map (1570-1577).svg: Small SVG: Map showing areas of Russian and Polish-Lithuanian forces, 1570–1577.
This is a list of wars, armed conflicts and rebellions involving Lithuania throughout its history as a kingdom (1251–1263), grand duchy (1236–1251; 1263–1795, although part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during 1569–1795) and a modern republic (1918–1940; 1990 – present), including as well the uprisings of the 19th and 20th centuries to recreate Lithuanian statehood.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [c] and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic, [d] [9] [10] was a federative real union [11] between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795.
"A map of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania including Samogitia and Curland divided according to their dismemberments with the Kingdom of Prussia" from 1799. During the Napoleonic Wars and in their immediate aftermath the borders between partitioning powers shifted several times, changing the numbers seen in the preceding ...
King Sigismund Augustus' Dominium Maris Baltici program, aimed at securing Poland's access to and control over the portion of the Baltic region and ports that the country had vital interests in protecting, led to the Commonwealth's participation in the Livonian conflict, which had also become another stage in the series of Lithuania's and ...
This represented a far greater threat to both Poland and Lithuania, and the two countries united in a defensive alliance by the crowning of the Lithuanian Duke Jogaila as King of Poland (as Władysław II) which led to a major confrontation at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and subsequent wars until 1525, when the Order became a vassal to the ...