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Together both countries broke the power of the Order. By marrying her the Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila accepted the Polish crown, baptized himself and his realm (thus nullifying the reason of the Order's very presence), and became king Władysław of Poland. note Until the third partition, Poland despite being a devoutly Catholic nation, was known for developing good relationships with Jews and being far less anti-semitic than Western Europe.Īfter Casimir's death the throne passed to the King of Hungary and then his daughter Jadwiga. The kingdom then went through a period of development under the last Piast king, Casimir III the Great, who also set the foundation for later tolerance by providing refuge to Jews and prohibiting, under pain of death, the forced conversion of Jewish children to Christianity. When Poland was finally reunified, it found itself in dire need for allies, and in the process became associated with Lithuania (this historical Lithuania actually consisted of modern-day Belarus and Lithuania), which at the time was the last pagan country in Europe and therefore also had a problem with the Knights. It later became quite a nuisance, so to say. Perhaps the most globally notable event of first two or three centuries of Poland's existence happened during a period of political fragmentation, when one of Polish regional princes invited The Teutonic Knights to help him against the pagan Prussians. The Piasts spent the next few centuries having their highs and lows, cleverly alternating between placating the German emperors and going behind their backs. In any case, Duke Mieszko and his son Bolesław put Poland on the map, cementing it with the former's baptism in 966 and the latter's crowning in 1025.

Poland arose when the West Slavic tribes of the region were united by the Piast dynasty of the Polans around about 1000, to an ongoing debate among historians as nobody is quite sure what was going on before mid-10th Century.

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