Polish Wars of Expansion
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges
- Curriculum: German History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, Eastern European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Germany, Poland, Ukraine
- Date: 1333-1466
Article abstract: At issue: Access to the sea and political dominance of eastern central Europe. Result: Polish dominance of eastern central Europe.
Background
In 1300, Poland was a kingdom without a king, riven by internal factions and threatened by outside adversaries: Czechs and Hungarians to the south, Lithuanians and Tatars to the east, and the powerful Teutonic Knights to the north. The nadir of Polish fortunes came in 1308, when the Teutonic Knights seized the port of Gdańsk, burned the city to the ground, put its 10,000 Slavic inhabitants to the...
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