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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 

(in Polish, Rzeczpospolita), the traditional name of the Polish state from the late 15th century through the 18th. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a specific type of monarchy subject to influence from the estates and headed by a king elected by the Sejm. From the time of the Union of Lublin of 1569 until 1795, this was the official name of the Polish-Lithuanian state.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Path to America Kosciuszko was born in 1746 near the town of Kosava in what was then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and is now part of Belarus.
Premier Polish patriot: Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a member of Poland's ... by Scaliger, Charles / The New American
The Wawel castle, now a museum, in Krakow, was the main residence of Polish kings who used to be Lithuanian grand dukes at the same time during the existence of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The millennium's exhibition and funeral by Tracevskis, Rokas M. / The Baltic Times (Riga, Latvia)
John Sobieski, ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, had arrived with the Holy League army of some 80,000 troops.
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