Rob Reacts to... A Super Quick History of Poland
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As for the War between Poland and Russia in early XVII th century, it is far more complicated than just polish invasion on weak Russia. It was tough period for Russia, however, invasion was led by poolish nobels, who took their private armies against Russia. Officially is was private war for Russian throne in which Poland as cuntry joined later when private war of polish nobes failed. Complicated times, Poles weren't the cleanest side in this conflict but is was terribly complicated times. Some Russians wnated Poland there, because they wanted to join Russia to Commonwealth, some didn't. I wish you found out more, about false Tsar that Poles tried to install on Russian throne etc.
Sorry for my english i was writing really in a hurry. Greetings from Poland :)
@czoncZ Has Poland anything to offer except for battles and dying?
Poland was official since 966
And popes can choose their names
we've be pogan.... and knda we still r but we lern bets way is not give a F we took chistianity cous we dudn't give one F. and it was 996 a.d
5:06 Jadwiga was a King not Queen. IT is important. She wasn't just a wife of King but futhermore she was a monarch WHO can decide about most important issuses in the country.
The second female king was Anna Jagiellon, the last of the Jagiellonian dynasty.
@@agnieszka7231 she was Queen but if MEN wants to be a King of Poland he had to marry her first.
@@monikaogorzalek7 On December 15, 1575, Anna was formally elected king, and on May 1, 1576, she became the wife of the Prince of Transylvania and the next king, Stefan Batory. Formally, as the king of Poland, she was on an equal footing with Stefan Batory, but she tried to gain an advantage over him, e.g. obligated foreign envoys to present their credentials and legations to her first.
@@agnieszka7231 ok. I didn't Know that. I was assure she wasn't as equal as a King
@@monikaogorzalek7 Jadwiga nigdy nie była Królową. Była zaprzysiężona jako Król Polski
No, Polish didn''t started tensions between Poland and Russia. It started earlier, with Russians being, as always agressive towards more western countries. This movie is just a summarize, it left many things unspoken :)
Very true. Saying that we started it - is wrong.
Muscovites as subjects of the Mongols attacked Poland with them
Ivan the Terrible to be more precise
The war of Poland and Lithuania against Moscow 1492-1494
The war of Poland and Lithuania against Moscow, 1500-1503
The war of Poland and Lithuania against Moscow, 1507-1508
The war of Poland and Lithuania against Moscow 1512-1522
The war of Poland and Lithuania against Moscow, 1534-1537
The War of Poland and Lithuania with Russia 1558-1570
First Polish-Russian War (Pskov) 1577-1582
Second Polish-Russian War (Moscow) 1609-1618
Third Polish-Russian War (Smolensk) 1632-1634
Fourth Polish-Russian (Ukrainian) War 1654-1667
Fifth Polish-Russian War (for the Polish Succession) 1733-1735
6th Polish-Russian War (Barsk) 1768-1772
VII Polish-Russian War (Targowicka) 1792
VIII Polish-Russian War (Kosciuszko) 1794
The 9th Polish-Russian War (November) 1830-1831
The 10th Polish-Russian War (January) 1863-1864
The 11th Polish-Russian (Bolshevik) War, 1919-1921
Russians kept attacking Lithuania so Lithuania needed an ally to help them defend against Russia's attacks. Hence the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It's not like Poland had nothing better to do and out of the blue attacked Russia for no reason.
Hey Rob, If we take the date of baptism as official then it will be year 966. It is when the first historical ruler of Poland Mieszko the First tied Poland with Western civilization and Poland became a Christian country :)
yes
Exactly. It is hard to put a date on creation of Polish state since it was fluid. Certainly one could say Poland as a country and a nation existed before the baptism in 966 and wouldn't be wrong about it. The very same thing is with Poland regaining it's sovereignity. We say it was November 11th 1918 (sorry for using american date style :D ) but it was an ongoing process that is hard to pick an exact date.
I am Polish btw.
Good luck!
Big plot twist! Lechites (Lusatians) are real🤨
Nowadays we know that idea that Slavs weren't from the region, was wrong. But Western Slavs were subject of Germanic conquest, until they were pushed away by Huns.
0:52
In 966 AD is when Poland adopted Christianity and the first Lord, Prince Mieszko I started ruling. This is what pretty much everyone in Poland uses as the year our country was officially "started"
Indeed, but consolidation of Pomeranians, Masovians, Ledzians, Vistulians etc.began years before that. Duke Mieszko I was first official ruler and actually creator of Polish Kingdom.
Year 966 ad is widely considered officially as Beginning of Polish State. It is very arbitrary but they had to chose the date i suppose.
Tbh on this date officially we took baptism from Germany, but Polish country existed before this date
From Germany???
No, from the Czechs, and it was the very idea, not let the Germans take a too big influence on Poland.
11:17 There is an old tradition that when a cardinal becomes a pope he changes his name
Greetings Rob, another great reaction.
Fun fact: you can easily tell which Polish kings we (generally) like the most by looking at our money:
10 PLN - Duke Mieszko I - the official founder of Poland and the first formally recognised ruler from the Piast dynasty.
20 PLN - King Bolesław I Chrobry (the Brave) - his son and the first Polish king who managed to advance Poland's position from an upstart newbie country to a valuable player in European politics.
50 PLN - King Kazimierz III Wielki (the Great) - the "salt guy", rebuilt and modernised Poland in many aspects (economy, technology, education, politics) after his father Władysław I Łokietek (the Elbow-High - he supposedly was about 152cm/5ft tall) reunited the country (following the "cake" mess). Kazimierz was the last male successor of the Piasts
100 PLN - King Władysław II Jagiełło - Grand Duke of Lithuania who married our King Jadwiga (yes, she was crowned and titled as "king" before the marriage, descendant of Piasts on the female line), united our countries and beat the crap out of Teutonic Order in the Battle of Grunwald, founder of the Jagiellon dynasty.
200 PLN - King Zygmunt I Stary (the Old as he reigned for 41 years) - his time is considered "the Golden Age" of Polish history. Second to last of the Jagiellons.
500 PLN - King Jan III Sobieski - an elected king (you learned about them), a Polish war hero even before his coronation, the defender of Vienna and a renowned romantic (the letters he wrote to his wife are famous to this day)
Incestious money
Sorry for small correction, but Zygmunt I was called the Old because when he lived his son (also Zygmunt) was crowned. So Poland had two Kings with the same name, and the nickname Old was added to make a distinction between them.
This Mongol/Tatar invasion of 1250s created a legend of both Lajkonik and hejnał mariacki (it is stoped in half, the story says that the person playing this was killed by turkish arrow in the middle of the play - and this is the tradition up to this day).
Taters byli pod Legnica w 1241-1242
5:07 - little correction she was not a "Queen". Hedwig was actually crowned as a King of Poland and was as Independent ruler. Her's husband Władysław Jagiełło was also crowned as a King but not like King "King" but as a King consort.
Why was she king even if she was female??
@@RobReacts1 It's a quite long story so give me some time to write it. 🤣
@@RobReacts1 I'll start from the beginning. Casimir the Great did not have any legal male descendants. Already in the first years of his reign, he concluded an inheritance agreement, under which, in the event of such a situation, the throne was to pass into the hands of the Hungarian king - the husband of his sister Elżbieta Łokietkówna (Karol Robert) or her son - (
Louis I the Great). Louis I of Hungary became the king of Hungary and Poland. On January 24, 1355, the so-called The Budiński Privilege, under which the magnates of Lesser Poland confirmed Ludwik's rights to the Polish crown, and in return he confirmed all the existing privileges.
However, Ludwik preferred to rule "actively" only in Hungary and rarely appeared in Poland, and entrusted the regency to his mother, Elżbieta Łokietkówna. After her death, there was an interregnum in Poland. So Louis had a problem because he had 3 daughters (Catherine, Mary and Hedwig) and only 2 thrones to occupy. While this problem was not so great in Hungary, in Poland it seemed impossible to ensure the succession of daughters, because in Poland there was no inheritance from the mother's side, so the Angevin dynasty could rule here only with a male offspring.
In exchange for his consent to the succession of his daughters to the Polish throne, on September 17, 1374, Louis issued the Privilege of Košice for the Polish nobility. Under it, one of his daughters could inherit in Poland, and the nobility was exempt from, among others, from the land tax, apart from 2 groshes from the lan. In 1381 this privilege was extended to the clergy as well.
Catherine was to inherit the throne of Poland, and Maria of Hungary. Unfortunately, the first of the girls died young, so her place on the throne of Poland was taken by Jadwiga.
@@RobReacts1 The best version I've heard was that legally the country couldn't be ruled by a queen... but _technically_ nobody said the king had to be a man :P. Legal fiction, essentially.
@@isadora8839 Oh fascinating!
12:20 ó is always pronounced like oo in ‚food’… adjective suffix -cki is pronounced like ‚-tski’, as Polish ‚c’ sounds more like ‚ts’
3:45 Yep. Here 1:39 the Gothic cathedral in Poland's first capital, Gniezno, is shown for a sec. It was destroyed successively by: Czechs, Teutonic Knights, Swedes, Napoleon's army and in 1945 the Russians fired from tanks and set it on fire. No, not during the fighting with the Germans, because there were none at all. They did it the only way they know how - drunk, for fun. They pointed guns at firefighters trying to save the church. And then they forced us to love them for "liberating" us. But the cathedral stands, it lasts, it's still beautiful.
The Polish-Lithuanian Union, which took place not through wars but through marriage, is proof that it is possible and even necessary to get along
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła called himself John Paul II because previous pope ( John Paul ) died very quickly after becoming a pope ( less than a month i believe ). I think he did it because he wanted to dignify his short pontificate.
Also popes take name after one of the saint's
Karol Wojtyła took the name John Paul II because, like his predecessor, he wanted to continue the policy of the previous papers of John XXIII and Paul VI.
You need to remember that Vatican is elective monarchy - once a cardinal is chosen by papal conclave (gathering of the College of Cardinals) to become a pope - defacto a "king" - he takes new name. It's similar to British monarch changing their name, I think.
Throughout history, Poland was always this outside wall of defence of Europe region. Poland was the one who saved Europe multiple times.
Australia's highest mountain was "discovered" and named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko by Pawel (Paul) Strzelecki, a Polish explorer who came to Australia in the late 1830s. I have now been "educated" to the correct pronunciation of the mountain by my Polish friend, who was horrified when he migrated here and heard the local pronunciation as "Mt Kozziosko"! Strzelecki himself has a part of Australia named after him - an unsealed track between the townships of Lyndhurst and Innaminka in outback South Australia.
they got one thing wrong, jadwiga was crowned and had oficial title of a king, not queen
but for English people queen does is a female king? oterwise they wopuld say king's wife?
@@Smutnomir well- jadwiga was crowned as a king, not a queen
4:27 Kazimierz III was an excellent king, his reign was truly revolutionary for Poland as a country, his "love" life however is a separate and very interesting story :)
6:21 I remember being taught this in middle school. The wars between Russia and Commonwealth happened because of Lithuanian muscovy wars. Lithuania was hopeless against Moscow in Livonian war and was about to be completely obliterated. Before, the nowgorod republic was allied with Lithuania and Poland against muscovites in XIV and XV century but it was defeated and incorporated under Moscow's control.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Lublin#Background
They begged Poland to help them in the war(they were already in the union but much less centralized, thanks to Jogaila's dynasty ruling both of them thanks to marriage with Jadwiga) Poland was only interested in helping them if lithuanians decided to unify and after arguing they agreed then the war was resumed to kick out russians from lithuania. One time the king was arguing with lithuanian nobility to unify even further so the lithuanians delegation left the metting with the king so king got offended and decided to give Poland Lithuanian southern borders out of spite.
I cant name a list, but Battle of the Warsaw (often called as miracle on the Vistula) is called one of the most important battles in whole history. I live in Płock, 120km of Warsaw and we took part in a battle and I'm proud of it (i can see from my window a street called "Obrońców Płocka 1920" - "Defenders of Płock 1920")
Frederic Shopen
Paderevskee
Karol Shymanovskee (NOT as in 'shy')
Veetold Lutosuavskee
Henryk Gooretskee (polish names -cki are spelled like -tskee, not -kee)
Henryk Vyenyavski
Arthur Rubinstein is quite clear (not a Polish name)
Krystian Tsimerman
Tomash Stańko (ń is somehow like nee, as in Nicaragua)
last and the best one
Kschyschtof Penderetskee (again -tskee, not -kee)
Officially, it is undeterminable when Poland was considered a country. I guess it happened when the first two tribes united. The first date you learn in history classes is 966, the baptism of Mieszko I, which must have taken place after the unison of the tribes.
Land for incestious
History of most medival castles in Poland: Built during the rule of Casmir the Great, burned down during the Swedish Deluge, never rebuilt (some left as ruins, others dismantled and used as a source of building material in later ages)
The custom of choosing a new name as the Pope began in AD 533. Names are freely chosen by popes, and not based on any system. Names of immediate or distant predecessors, mentors, saints, or even family members - as was the case with John XXIII - have been adopted.
Guy from the history video has forgotten that russians strated invading Polish-Lithuanians since begining of the first quarter of the XVI century, and our invasion was actually only support to one of the claimants of Russian throne (which was assassinated by other Russians)
Hey there again! Rob, You should take Your Wife to the trip to Grunwald. Each year there is EPIC "cosplay" battle going on. Performed by 'knightly orders' from whole Europe. You can see there also 15th century craftsmanship and style of living. It's realy epic event.
About Polish invasion on Moscow - Rob, just don't follow that path... xD
Despite their effort to erradicate us as nation, the ocupants(Germans, Russians, Austrians) just couldn't kill our national spirit. We can fight each other (Pole with Pole) but if there is someone from outside (foreign power etc.) who tries to beat us, we stand back to back and support each other (like in big family). It's our nature, our culture and we're proud of it.
The '20 of 20th century was the best time for our Country. In 20 years (1918 - when Poland became a state once more till 1939 when WW2 started) we managed to rise up and form a prospering state. Curiousity - The city of Gdynia was build in that time (20years to build WHOLE city from scratch). I'm thinking about people who lived that day. How hungry for their own country they were. How hard they worked to achive that. I think thats's why they fought so bravely in ww2. Just to have a place to live, place which they could name their home.
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6:17 fun fact: Moscow has only been conquered twice in history, once by Poles and once by Poles with the help of Napoleon, because the second time Poland was under partition. Even Hitler was defeated by the Russians, so that's probably why the Russians have a bad attitude towards Poles, or at least that's what they taught me in history lessons.
Zostali podbici przez Mongolię i dlatego są tak dzikim narodem do dziś że nie szanują cywilizacji europejskiej.Jednym słowem rosja to nie są słowianie
If I recall correctly poland has beaten Russia 3 times not just 2
0:56 so yeah, Poland was a country since probably about the year 900, but the first important thing that happened to Poland that made it be reffered to as a country was the baptism of Poland in 966
Rob quite interesting fact for you that Mieszko I had daughter that was married into vikings becoming queen of Danes Sweeds Norwegian and England. Her son was Kanut the Great that was ruling the empire including England.
If you liked this type of wideo, you can also see an animated history of Poland. It's as short as the movie you watched.
At the end of XVIII century (and the end of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) there was attempt for saving country by reform it. At 1791 it was first in Europe, and second in the world constitution. That I think, was very important part of our history.
Show Enigma how English cryptologists discovered it in 1940, i.e. 8 years after 3 Polish mathematicians. In France there was a program about the Polish Enigma not long ago, the Germans did it a long time ago only the English claim that they discovered the Enigma such were capable
Just a country? Who knows.
We have a traditional start date of 966 where Duke Mieszko I was baptised. But technically he was ruler of a country existing for generations beforehand, it was just the moment this country was recognized by Papacy.
Anyway... the name "Poland" comes from "pole" (field) and people who were living in this region called themselves "Polanie" (field people). It was way before medieval times and existance of Mieszko The First.
As they say... the first signs of "civilisation" on Polish land is dated 800 years B.C. The remains of houses, crafts and weapons were excavated in Biskupin. Now this is a great "museum" on open air. Restored and with nice exhibition. I recommend visiting it sometime in the summer. Sometimes they make shows of knight's fights etc.
You can travel to Biskupin taking a trip from Poznań. I don't know if you've ever been to Poznań but this city is also worth visiting. There are so many attractions there... not only an old town but a lot of places in the city and near it... like: Rogalin with its palace and two museums (of old vehicules and art), there are also the oldest oak trees dated in Europe: called Lech, Czech and Rus (There's a legend of how Lech, Czech and Rus were brothers and they all started their own countries). There's also little town Kórnik with its impressive castle and botanic garden.
Anyway, I don't want to make this post too long. I could talk about Polish tourist attractions for hours🤣🤣🤣 and I'm getting a bit far from the topic of history
That's what I learnt at history classes: the war against this one, a battle against another, the dates, territories conquered and lost. Only when learning about ancient and medieval times there was some context of culture, society etc. So yes, I feel like history means learning about the past wars (and maybe also names of kings). Just out of curiosity, what else do you learn in history classes?
The date when Poland was created is conveniently counted from Christianisation of Duchy of Poland in 966, but “Polish” country was really created probably in 8th century, starting in Greater Poland; anyway the name “Poland” started to be using in 11th century.
0:51 The year of Poland's baptism, 966, is accepted as a official date, with Prince Mieszko I as the first ruler. Even the communist state recognized this date, building more than 1,000 "Tysiąclatki" (millennium schools) across the country in 1966.
966 was the last year Poland exsited as a free country
They skip the only XIX-century polish uprising that was succeded: at 1806, during the Napoleon Wars. So later they knew that uprising can win!
Year 966 AD during rule of Duke Mieszko I of Piast Dynasty is considered official beginning of Polish state. Yes, I'm Polish...
But we can substract some years from that since that is where first official records show up. So since there is already Piast dynasty ruling over Polanie tribe, we can assume that while still pagan, some sort of Polish tribal "state" was already there. It didn't pop up from thin air after all. ;)
EDIT: Ah yeah, the matter of splitting Poland among sons... yeah, terrible idea, aboslutely terrible, topped only by Liberum Veto and Elective Monarchy...
You could write films and tv shows about this sort of issue... oh I think there are several haha
@@RobReacts1 Yeah, the common thing in Polish history is how sometimes without external help we just tend to mess things up on our own. Also often we are not taking advantage of favourable events or hard fought victories.
I love that they used drawing of mieszko II in boleslaws segment 2:11
"The Polish-Russian wars are closely related to the moment of the fall of Tatar rule over the Duchy of Moscow in 1480. When the ruler of Moscow, Ivan III, assumed the title of "ruler of all Ruthenia by the grace of God", a conflict with Lithuania, which included a large part of Ruthenia, was inevitable. Due to the union with Lithuania, Poland was automatically involved in the conflict over the control over the lands of former Kievan Rus. " (Wikipedia) Well, here is how it all began.
5:06 No. Jadwiga was crowned as KING, not queen, big difference. Maybe you can watch some videos about her? It's interesting how 10 year old girl from Hungary became king of Poland and conquered most of Ruthenia (todays Ukraine) at the age of 13. She was also able to speak in 6 languages - hungarian, polish, lithuanian, german, french and latin (despite dying youg at age of 25/26) and even her enemies like Teutonic Knights admitted that she was a worthy opponent, they also admitted her beauty and wisdom and there is much more facts about her.
Mieszko the first from what i learned accepted christianity most likely because of political reasons. The idea was that adopting christianity would sacralize princely and royal power and by that it would integrate the "young state organism" and strengthen the power of the prince. But thats on paper. The other thing that also is what most likely happend is he accepted christianity, because at the time a lot of other countries were doing it too, so i guess it would be just safer for the country to do it. You might even say that he kind of predicted the later crusades that would happen by teutonic order that happend decades later.
Baptism of Poland - 966, is the event that created Poland we know.
Thank you very much Rob for all videos about Poland. Great job.
I'm Michał from Częstochowa ( Saint City).
An interesting fact is that when the state of Israel was created, Polish citizens of Jewish origin were the main creators. In the first Knesset, the Polish language was understandable for the majority. The Polish language was used by Israeli pilots to communicate in the war with the Arabs, who could not decipher it at all . Regards Robert
8:36 if you want know how Poland raise again after partition, you should watch part 3 of Unconquered: Game of Freedom. Part 2 explain times between WWI and WWII - thats my favourite part.
2:22 You gotta remember one crucial thing- there wasn't really anything like "National Identity" in the medieval times. The monarch owned the realm. It was his private property of which he gave bits and pieces of to others like lesser nobles, knights, etc. in return for them swearing loyalty to the monarch and paying him taxes.
Of course he would divide the kingdom between his sons, just like you would give your house to your son, your car to another, leave them shares of the money you saved up, etc.
It was a bit more complicated than that, but the underlying principle was still there- he didn't want his sons to fight and kill each other over ownership of their father's land, so he divided it up.
Same happened in France, same happened in Iberia which resulted in Portugal becoming a thing, same happened in Holy Roman Empire which resulted in 12 or so Kingdoms and Duchies fracturing into some 100 smaller entities. And much the same happened in feudal Japan which resulted in dozens of daimyō that constantly warred with one another, just like in Europe.
Ideas like centralized state entities, etc. didn't start appearing in Europe until 1500-1600's and ideas of equality, citizenship, nation states etc. only took hold and stayed with French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars and Spring of Nations in late 1700's and up to mid 1800's when first actual Nation States like France started becoming a thing.
Cultural and religious identity were one thing, but for some 1500 years they had very little to do with actual politics- Czechs were part of Holy Roman Empire for centuries and Bohemian (Czech) King, who was from Luxembourg, ruled as the Emperor of HRE, King of Germany. Kievan Rus (ancestor state of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus) was created by Vikings. Duchy of Normandy was ruled by Vikings, the heirs of whom would conquer England and Southern Italy and become kings of England and Sicily. China was ruled by a Mongol dynasty for a long time, and the last Chinese Dynasty was Manchurian not Chinese in origins.
The idea of nation states is very new in the grand scheme of things- it wasn't until 1900's that states like Austria-Hungary or Ottoman Empire ended...
0:52 is something like 965-966, There were tribes in Poland that cooperated with each other, but it was Mieszko who united them into one state. Initially, in Poland, the power of assemblies and assemblies was more entrusted. It is difficult to talk about the state before the ruler Mieszko I, who conquered other areas in a very short time.
Just so you don't get confused.
Prussians were baltic pagans, very much like Lithuanians. They were conquered and largely slaughtered by the German Teutonic knights in 13th century (former crusaders, unemployed after Jerusalem fell).
Teutonic knights were defeated by Poland in 15th century and became a secular state by the name of Prussia, a vassal of Poland. In 17th century during Swedish deluge, Prussia got independent from Poland, joining with German state of Brandenburg and forming kingdom of Prussia. That kingdom became a military superpower, partitioned Poland with Russia and Austria in 18th century and a century later defeated several countries including France, forming German Empire.
0:49 - 14 April 966 - "Baptism of Poland" - this is an official date when Poland became country.
Wielka Lechia ,,, proponuję poznać historię od poduszki a świadomość się rozszerzy ...troszkę😉
In 966 there was: "The Baptism of Poland" that refers to the ceremony when the first ruler of the Polish state, Mieszko I, and much of his court converted to the Christian religion." (frag. from google). But, regrettably, the Church had a thing for destroying anything pagan, so we don't have much info about the ages before the year 966. But there is one sure thing- in 966 the kingdom already existed, so it must have formed at least several decades earlier ;)
Poland was officially founded in 966 when Poland was Christianized. The first official ruler was Mieszko I, and he was the Duke of Poland, but his son, Bolesław I, was first king of Poland. Face of Mieszko I is on 10PLN bill. But Poland has longer history than that. Its just a important year that was agreed to be recognised as "founding of Poland".
The creation of the Duchy of Poland was forgotten thanks to Napoleon's conquests, in which Polish soldiers participated (General Dąbrowski's Legions). Napoleon stated that the Polish soldiers were the best he had ever seen in battle and were faithful to him to the end, until they were deported to Elba. (Napoleon's famous quote: "... If it can't be done, leave it to the Poles, they will do it.")
Poland officially became a state when Mieszko I (he was a ruler, not a king) accepted the baptism of Poland in 966.
Regarding Karol Wojtyla changing name when becoming Pope it's similar to British monarch changing their name. That actually occured in 1936 for a last time but it's the same principle.
Also in the UK, the new king/queen as ruler and head of the Anglican Church can choose any name they want, but recently they have kept their original names.
Funny thing is that some of the most compelling academic authors on polish and old Commonwealth history are actually British/American - prof Davies, prof Butterwick, prof Snyder and prof Frost, in my opinion that is. No show off intented.
* Polish
About dividing the Poland in 1138... well, it's a Agnatic seniority. The Oldest from the dynasty take Seniority Province and the Capital. Rest of the brothers (and the dynasty) are kind of vassals. It works at the beginning....
(1:00) "officially a country" is a bit tricky word, because many today's countries are not so old if we take into consideration different definitions we'll use, but by official, many historians takes "the baptism of Poland", because this made huge impact and international recognition to Mieszko I who even before took under his wings many territories, so "officially a country" and where we start to learn about it, is from AD 966. But if we'd like to be pedantic, then we could go a bit further, to AD 1025 when first king had coronation, so it was "agreed" by Pope (back then it was like "final word" like some international law).
Rob, have you been reading Norman Davis books about Poland? It might give you better view on our history. They are of course available in English, and they’re really well written. If you haven’t read them yet, you should give them a try :)
"If you don't get on with each other, just leave each other alone" - great advice Rob. Now, tell it to the Russians... 🙂
Haha I don't speak Russian unfortunately 🤣
@@RobReacts1 Oh Rob, lemme help ya then. The phrase to use is, more or less, "идите на хуй" 🙂
It is better for you. If You want to learn Asian languege it better to learn Chinese.
Haven't watched the video yet. Just wanted to say... AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
Frederic Chopin is usually pronounced "Sho" pin.
Actually isnt it pronounced Sho Pan??
@@RobReacts1 Nope, it Sho Pen 🙃
@@RobReacts1 His surname was French, he was half-French. He was raised in Poland and during one of his trips to France he received a letter that there's no reason to go back to Poland because November uprising started and Russians introduced brutal repressions.
So he stayed in France, got a carrier and died there.
In France they claim he was French, same with Maria-Skłodowska Curie who married a French scientist. She discovered an element on a periodic table which she called "Polon".
There is one thing to understand when You learn medieval history. During Patrimonial monarchy (early medieval) country was a proporty of its ruler, almost like a farm is a property of a farmer, that is why countries were divided, and that is why it is very hard to say when exactly countries were formed
966 Poland became officially a thing, really on the Europe map with baptism 966
966 was the christening of Poland so i guess that's when it was considered a country. The people of Poland were united (well, you know, not always peacefully) a bit earlier, not sure when. Then the first king was Bolesław Chrobry, the son of Mieszko I (Mieszko accepted chrystianity but wasn't a king).
966 is the first date you learn at school like when you are about 7-10 years old. 966 - Christianity and beggining of Poland (Mieszko I is Prince of Poland), in 1000 year there was meeting in Gniezno (capital of Poland then) where oficially Germany accepted Poland as a country, in 1025 son of Mieszko - Bolesław Chrobry becomes first king of Poland. - I am engineer in mechatronics, I hate history. Everyone here remembers those numbers
There's no one date when Poland became the country. Often year 966 is taken as Baptise of Poland, but Poland as a Pagan country existed earlier, from around tribal unification around VIII-IX century. We just don't have anything but legends about what was before Mieszko I. And even then we can't be sure which are about what was after tribal unification by Polans (Polanie in polish. One of the tribes that lived in the area) and which are about particular tribes. What makes it even more complicated we know that Slavs lived on these terrains at least since VIII century BCE, meaning some of these legends can be thousand years old, while some be closer to two thousands.
TL;DR The earliest we know for sure Poland existed is around 950's but it's older, we just don't know how much older exactly. Going with tribal unification it would around VIII-IX century and by first Slavic settlements it would be VIII century BCE, but it's really far fetch
966 is the official date of the Baptism of Poland which is considered the date for the beginning of the Polish state. Before that there were the Polans, Lachs and other tribes but not a state recognised in the Christian Europe.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was created because Russians invaded Lithuania and Poland offered an union, so we haven't started
(If I remember wrongly please correct me)
6:15 Rivalry between Poland and Russia started much earlier than that.
As far as I know it all started in first half of XVI century at the times of Ivan IV the Terrible and his ambition to gain more access to Baltic Sea. Mainly by taking the land where nowadays are what we commonly call a "Baltic States" (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) plus Kaliningrad region, and which at the time, was under control of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But there were probably earlier conflicts than that. Everrything goes back to geopolitics.
11:02 Afaik every Pope when elected chooses his new name. For example Benedict XVI real name was Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger and for current pope it's Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Such is their tradition.
I'm not sure if it was mentioned here already, but Mieszko I married Doubravka of Bohemia from Czechia, so we took Christianity from them. One of the theories behind it is that it was done, to lower the pobability to get attacked by Germans
Another interesting thing that wasn't mentioned in the video - there were 3 partitions of Poland. Our king, Poniatowski, had an affair with Katherine II the Great, which helped no one during the partition
did you seen Joseph Conrad as polish writer? Check this out again)))
if we think about it... right now Poland has the longest peace period in its existence.... and we hope it will last for some time longer....
@M Correction - 1 generation, because last was truly ended for Polish people in 1989, which is the year od democratic changes in the state and ending the Soviet occupation. Polish people does not like to fight in wars, because its a tragedy, but mostly were forced to fight back to survive and have independence. Sadly not many generations in Poland have had the privilege of living without wars, would be nice to finally have peace for many generations and to prosper. Like Faitless sang in "Mass Destruction" - "Greed is a weapon of mass destruction", greed indeed caused many wars and currently still is causing it.
Technically, Poland became a state just before the Duke Mieszko I was baptizted (966 AD), i.e. in the middle of XX century. But you should consider it a process rather than a particular date.
2:35 - at the time it was actually pretty common. The Carolingians basically did the same a bit beforehand with splitting Francia into West, Middle and East Francia.
West Francia became France, Middle Francia became Lotharingia, which doesn't really exist anymore, but Belgium is the last successor state in existance and East Franica continued dissolving itself untill it became Holy Roman Empire, which then evolved into Germany.
6:28 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed primarily in an attempt to create a strong union facing the threats of Moscow.
officially 966 C.E this was year from where Poland became christian country.
To be fair if he would make oldest son inherit all of Kingdom then they would also kill each other
1:00 to answer your question precisely per school: in 966 AD the principality of Poland was recognised under papal protection, thus making it part of Christendom and therefore European historical record.
It's worth bearing in mind when the recognition happened, it was already a fully formed and operational kingdom, Christianisation happened with at least some support/acceptance by the locals - in exchange for better organisational recipes, technology, protection from crusades and ability to participate in "crusade of the north" up in the Baltics. There is no reliable record as to what was happening before that, however Polish and regional archaeologists have been hard at work over the ages and there were findings even recently, which help us piece together at least the material aspect of the tribal times.
The lack of record is often attributed to hostile cultural engineering committed by Christian missionaries(some say they would burn/erase anything not written in Latin), but it's more of a combination of factors: any script would've been in made in wood or other perishable materials like animal skins. It's just not very durable on historical time scales; people in the area are actually very absorbent of new things - today English is not even half as prominent as Latin before, and many Poles and Czechs, Slovaks use it a lot; having a script that unlocks trade with the richest parts of the world makes sense : )
Official year for Poland as a country is the year 966 when polish prince Mieszko I accepted Christianity as a national religion. Before that Poland was heavily attacked by Germans because it was a pagan land. So it was mainly a political decision.
As you asked at the beginning - when was Poland formed ;) I think tough to give definitive date - most would probably say the date when Poland was baptized - which would be 966 AC - but really the formation started a bit before that - and some would probably say that Poland as a country would start 40 years later in Gniezno (congress of Gniezno) - but the pagan culture existed way before that. It's kind of fluid though, I don't think it was like "poof, and there is Poland!", it was forming for quite some time before baptizing and was probably recognized internationally as a state in 966 :)
Look at Poland location in Europe. Poland is only land of land connetion between East and West of Europe north from Caarpatia. It is so important land for trade that everyone want to control it. Even now, because of Poland and Ukraine, Russia has no land acces to western Europe (beside Skandinavia).
0:57 I guess when it was baptised, a.k.a. in 966
Hi, regarding your questions - 1. 966 a year of Poland's first historical ruler Mieszko 1st baptism is considered as a moment when Poland was created. 2. When a certain cardial is elected to be a pope he is taking a new name or names - usually of saints with whom he somehow identifies (treating them as parton). That's why Karol Wojtyła became John Paul II. This film is a big simplification - the history of Poland is much richier and more complicated :)
I've just done the series of 3 animated history of poland videos
Changing name occurs in Catholic church. Either the Pope or nuns change their birth name into one inspired by a holy person (this does not occur in protestant religion, it was one of the main Luther distinctions). In this case every pope and nun will have catholic name even though he/she could be from a diiferent religion family.
funny thing. 'Queen Jadwiga' was a king not queen because in Poland king is a title of ruler of Poland and queen is the title of his wife. Even if Jadwiga was a women, she was coronated as king not queen xd. There is no word in english that would match 'female version of king' so everyone say she was a queen but it is false.
10:53 In Bible adopting of a new name is some kind of rebirth; the man became someone new. For example... the Abraham before he was choosed by God was name Abram; St. Peter was Simon; St. Paul was Saul etc.
I recommend you to watch polish historical movies like : KATYŃ, CWAŁ, NAD NIEMNEM, LALKA, ZNACHOR or tv plays DZIADY, HERBATKA U STALINA. Most of them are going on tv Polonia with English subtitles.
The year 966 is considered to be the beginning of the Polish state.
The ruler of the Piast dynasty, Mieszko I, was to be baptized at that time and start a new stage in the history of people who lived in this part of Europe. It is assumed that it was to take place on April 14, Holy Saturday.
Poland as a state started kinda officially in the middle of 10th century.
11:22 every Pope picks up a fake name one he starts to rule the Church. It's a symbolic way of saying that he has new name now, and that he should leave everything else behind and focus on new role and duties(almost like being reborn). Same goes for some of monks- when they enter an Order, they pick up a new name (as to say, once they enter, they leave their old life behind).
Poland probably became a united state around the middle of the 10th century, it is not known exactly in which year, because it was the time before the history of the country was written down on paper. Officially, in 966, Poland was baptized, a church was established in Poland, and more specific written information about the country began to emerge.
Poland geography was the main factor why it had so many wars - when you look at landspace- there's no better way to march from east to west or from west to east, other than Poland -> most of Polands landspace are flatlands, guarded from south by Carpatian mountains, and by sea from the north...
Imagine King of France trying to invade Russia -> there's no better way to do it, other than going through Germany and Poland... if you try to go by Italy, you'd have to cross 2 mountain ranges -> Alps to get into Italy and again Carpatian Mountain.
The same geography allowed Poland to be a trade hub in the past and its currently one of it's biggest chances for Poland to improve it's position. Before the current invasion of Ukraine almost all traffic between Western Europe and Russia was going through Poland. Poland also lobbies much for international project via Carpatia, which would connect it's ports on Baltic coast with highspeed roads to Balkans -> these would create another road for trading goods between Scandinavia and countries like Greece (as an alternative for going through Italy, Germany and Denmark) and could bring more profit...
Good job as usual Rob! 😊
Yes, Polish history is very sad ☹.
Unfortunately, we live among neighbors who have imperial thoughts.
Why John Paul II and not Karol Wojtyła? Karol Wojtyła was his name before he became pope (it is a family name). When someone is elected pope, that person takes the papal name, in this case John Paul II.
Communism in Poland was overthrown by Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), Solidarity and US President Ronald Reagan.
Greetings from Poland!
I recommend watching, Bloody foreigners untold battle of britain
Yes, one has to change name when beccomes a pope or a king - king Charles III, current pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) etc.
People say there's lot of great polish people, forgot that a lot of them went to US and change their names. Even Warner brothers are actualy polish and probably most of Hollywood actors had grandparents from Poland. So if not a Hitler and Stalin everything could be different