Establishment of the Second Polish Republic. In the aftermath of the war, following the collapse of the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, Poland became an independent republic. This ...

The links between Ireland and Poland go back centuries. The first ever history of Poland in the English language was written by an Irishman, Bernard O’Connor, a physician in the court of King Jan ...

The Polish gentry formed a distinct element within the ancient tribal groupings. This is uncertain, however, as there is little documentation on the early history of Poland, or of the movements of the ...

At the contemporary end, it includes a story by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk (1962), 'The Green Children', a historical story set in 1656, narrated by a Scottish doctor who, as the Polish king's ...

It also addresses the government's concerns that when the world's media inaccurately write about "Polish death camps" they are trying to rewrite the history of the period. "This discussion about ...

Princess Anna Jagiełłon was eventually wed to Hungarian nobleman Stephen Báthory and they jointly-ruled the next phase of Polish history. Painting by Artur Grottger (1860) depicting Henryk's escape ...

Poland (local: Polska), conventional long form the Republic of Poland (local: Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe bounded to the north by the Baltic Sea and two mountain ...