But beforehand in the 16-17th centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the most powerful empires in Europe. At the peak of its power in the late 17th century this multi-ethnic state ...
Livonian Voivodeship, or Polskie Inflanty, on a map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ca ... when many Polish families moved to the territories of the resurrected Polish state. But even then, the ...