But beforehand in the 16-17th centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the most powerful empires in Europe. At the peak of its power in the late 17th century this multi-ethnic state ...

The story of how Europe's biggest state - the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - was sliced, diced and destroyed by three hungry neighbours in 1795. Show more Long before Putin tried it on ...

More often than not, the more numerous Russians emerged victorious, so much so that Poland was wiped off the map more than ... Forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied the Kremlin ...

1569 - Poland signs Union of Lublin with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ... the Commonwealth is finally partitioned among Prussia, Russia and Austria. Independent Poland disappears from the map ...

the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,” further claiming that Warsaw draws inspiration from 400-year-old maps due to having “no intellectual powers for creating a viable image of the future.” ...

Zorkin had brought Putin a copy of a map which, according to him ... He said he had brought it to Putin to show that "there is no Ukraine there" – only the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, "Cossackia", ...

The constitution was passed on May 3, 1791, by the Great Sejm [grand parliament] of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and ... removed Poland from the map of Europe for more than a century.