Discover why the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth collapsed once one of Europe’s largest and most powerful states. This video explores the internal conflicts, political weaknesses, and foreign ...

After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, its history textbooks have been rewritten several times in order to conform to the new major Lithuanian historical narrative. This article analyses ...

At one time, they had a Union of their own. When the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth met its demise in 1795, its territory included not only those two countries but the entire western half of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, 19 September (BelTA) – Russia has shared copies of historical documents from Russian Empire archives concerning the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the occasion of the ...

Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte have sent messages of congratulations as Poland on Tuesday marked Constitution Day, a public holiday celebrating a historic ...

Everyone always remembers the sheer badassery and battle prowess of the vikings, the samurai and the Roman legionnaires — but the Winged Hussars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rarely find a way ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Critiquing prevalent secular explanations for the cossack-led uprising called Koliivshchyna that erupted in the Ukrainian borderlands of the ...