Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Królestwo Polskie, Latin: Regnum Poloniae) was the name of Poland under a series of monarchial regimes from 1000/1025 to 1795:
- Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385) from the early Piast dynasty
- Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) under the Jagiellon dynasty
- Kingdom of Poland, or Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, as part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569−1791 (1795)
The name was later used for various externally controlled governments, under foreign monarchies:
- General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland (1812–1813)
- Congress Poland, autonomous Polish state in personal union with the Russian Empire, 1815−1867 or 1915
- Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918), a puppet state of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary
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