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Władysław III of Poland (31 October 1424 – 10 November 1444), also known as Ladislaus of Varna, was King of Poland and Supreme Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1434 as well as King of Hungary and Croatia from 1440 until his death at the Battle of Varna.
- 1434–1444
- Władysław II Jagiełło
- 25 July 1434, Wawel Cathedral
- Interregnum (1444–1447), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1447)
Sigismund remains a controversial figure in Poland. He is one of the country's most recognisable monarchs. His long reign partially coincided with the Polish Golden Age, the apex in the prestige, power and economic influence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 19 August 1587 – 30 April 1632
- Catherine Jagiellon
Augustus III (Polish: August III Sas, Lithuanian: Augustas III; 17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II).
Julian Noga. Although Julian's Polish Catholic parents had immigrated to the United States before World War I, his mother had returned to Poland and Julian was born in a village not far from the large town of Tarnow in southern Poland. Julian was raised in Skrzynka by his mother on her four-acre farm while his father remained in the United States.
On this second day of the Church New Year according to the Julian Calendar we are talking with Polish priest-theologian and dean of the Department of Orthodox Theology of the Bialystok University Fr. Mark Lavreschuk about why the Polish Church made the unprecedented decision to return to the Julian Calendar, whether there were any difficul...
king of Poland and elector of Saxony. Also known as: August Friedrich, August III Wettin, Augustus Frederick, Frederick Augustus II. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Third and last, the images of Poland constructed abroad and circulating in various circles, as they were imported by emigrants and reshaped in their welcoming country, are also interesting inasmuch as they help us to understand the reactions they provoked in Poland itself—among the Polish government and officials on the one hand, among the intellectuals and dissidents on the other, and ...
