Kingdom of Poland
"Kingdom of Poland" (Polish: Królestwo Polskie, Latin: Regnum Poloniae) was the name of Poland under a series of monarchical governments, from c. 1000/1025 to 1795:
- Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385) — under the early Piast dynasty
- Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) — under the Jagiellon dynasty
- Kingdom of Poland or "Crown of the Kingdom of Poland" (1569−1791, 1795) — part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Other uses
The name "Kingdom of Poland" was later used for several externally-controlled governments that were ruled by foreign monarchies:
- General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland (1812–1813) — established by Emperor Napoleon I on the eve of his campaign into Imperial Russia.
- Kingdom of Poland, or the Congress Poland — autonomous Polish state in personal union with the Russian Empire, 1815−1867 or until 1915.
- Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) — a World War I puppet state of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
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