History of the Lithuania : Every Year

Lietuvos istorija žemėlapiuose kiekvienais metais 970 - 2021
History of Lithuania every year, from small kingdoms and principalities, to large Grand Duchy, Commonwealth and modern Lithuania. Source of this video is mostly Lithuanian Wikipedia, named Vikipedija. I worked very hard to find borders of these Rus' principalities, i must find them because they were vasals of Lithuania, but finally after a few months i found every border of every principality including Tatar states in south-east.
Dark color means important independent state,
light color means vassals, dependent territories and colonies,
lightest color means occupation.
Yellow color means not important countries.
Music:
(I dont claim any rights to music.)
1. Evening in the Tavern - Wither I soundtrack
2. Oi šermukšnio - Ugniavijas / @ugniavijas
3. Anthem of Lithuania - instrumental

[@micahistory]

Wow great video. This is absolutely amazing. The best video on Lithuania I ever saw. Great way to start off the new year

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

The video does not deserve this rating, because the video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 5 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"!

[@DB-hm6qs]

bro used chatGPT to make this comment 💀

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@DB-hm6qs Why do you think that @micahistory should do that?

[@DB-hm6qs]

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars im talking about you

[@news_oftheweek]

Super, widać, że włożyłeś w film dużo pracy i fajnie wyszło :)

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

Napisałem w moim komentarzu po angielsku, że wideo zdecydowanie nie jest super. The video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 5 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"!

[@spaghettiking7312]

Haven't found anyone else who has compiled all this. Absolutely beautiful work.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

But the video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 5 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"

[@bubbubbington]

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars YOU LIED

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@bubbubbington Your claim that I am allegedly lying is a lie!

[@vytautasdidysis4173]

I am proud to be Lithuanian

[@laimonas3797]

@@traideniskaladnicki177 😂😂😂😂 Vytautas combination of lithuanian words vesti, vyti and tauta-Vytautas "to lead a nation". I know its hard when you dont have history but nice try bulbash

[@laimonas3797]

@@traideniskaladnicki177 either write in english or russian. I will ignore belarusian.

[@laimonas3797]

@@traideniskaladnicki177 Just because ruthenian (not belarusian) was used as a official language that doesnt mean belarus is lithuania. Because in poland they were written in latin and I think you forgot that 70% of belarus speaks russian and it is a official language...

[@wwFwA]

@@laimonas3797 😂👍

[@magnus_ducatus9684]

@@traideniskaladnicki177 "We do not know on whose merits or guilt such a decision was made, or with what we have offended Your Lordship so much that Your Lordship has deservedly been directed against us, creating hardship for us everywhere. First of all, you made and announced a decision about the land of Samogitia, which is our inheritance and our homeland from the legal succession of the ancestors and elders. We still own it, it is and has always been the same Lithuanian land, because there is one language and the same inhabitants. But since the land of Samogitia is located lower than the land of Lithuania, it is called as Samogitia, because in Lithuanian it is called lower land [ Žemaitija ]. And the Samogitians call Lithuania as Aukštaitija, that is, from the Samogitian point of view, a higher land. Also, the people of Samogitia have long called themselves as Lithuanians and never as Samogitians, and because of such identity (sic) we do not write about Samogitia in our letter, because everything is one: one country and the same inhabitants." This sentence written by Vytautas completely disproves the entire Litvinist narrative 🤣

[@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838]

Super! Po prostu to jest piękne.

[@micahistory]

hi bro

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

Napisałem w moim komentarzu po angielsku, że wideo zdecydowanie nie jest super. The video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 5 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"!

[@danilapolesciuk4316]

What are you sources for alot of this? Since I've noticed there's not alot of info about old Lithuania especially before Grand duchy on Wikipedia. I'm interested is there a book of these things

[@magnus_ducatus9684]

I know this is a late comment, but what were your sources for the early citystates in the 12th century??

[@JuliaDM]

Good job !

[@macinhorstemeyer1961]

I was adopted from Poland and my biological paternal grandmother was from Kaunas. She was born in 1930.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

However but the video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 10 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"!

[@professionaldriver77878]

​@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsWhich 5 religions? Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran and which two else?

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@professionaldriver77878 There were not 5 but 10 religions in the Polish Empire! Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Eastern Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox, Jews, Russian Old Believers and Mennonites.

[@professionaldriver77878]

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Thanks for the info

[@alexstark4223]

nice job! Hi from Belarus

[@zennyy.12]

Wonderful video

[@mateuszg7987]

Its amazing szwagier its beautiful

[@jonasaleksandras6033]

About the May constution.. While it is true that at first Lithuania was excluded at first and demoted to just a province.. Later on the only ammendment of the constitution was passed that granted Lithuania an equal status to Poland.. The video is great, but fix this mistake.

[@fidenemini111]

Even the thranslation of constitution to Lithuanian was ready.

[@2hotflavored666]

Equal on paper of course.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

Lithuania had no equal status to Poland! So the video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 5 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"

[@ignasdailidenas2262]

Yapp ​@@GreatPolishWingedHussars

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Great history

[@leonast9316]

I am from the great land of Lithuania! Thank you for the creator of this video! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

[@litvin-1.4.8.8]

Историческая Литва это Беларусь, а ваша республика Литва тогда была Жемайтией, Аукштайтией Дзукией, самогогией

[@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809]

@@litvin-1.4.8.8 Lithuania was never Belarussian.

[@litvin-1.4.8.8]

@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 As if chronicled, ethnic, original and chronicled Lithuania was located in the central and Western part of Belarus, namely between Novogrudok, Lida, Grodno, Volkovysk, Slonim, Minsk, Pinsk, Oshmyany, Krev, Braslov, Baranovichi, Molodechno, Volozhin, Nesvizh, Smorgon. And it was these territories of Lithuania that Mindovg united with the capital in Novogrudok. Thus, the GDL was formed on the territory of modern Belarus, and the ethnic region of Lithuania was located on the territory of Belarus, and the Lithuanian tribe lived on the territory of Belarus. And there was no ethnic Lithuania on the territory of the modern Republic of Lithuania, there were only Zhemaitiya, Aukstaitiya and Sudavia. And there lived the Zhemites, Auksteits and Yatvyags, who were not considered Lithuania. The Lithuanian princes lived on the territory of Belarus and sat in Novogrudok, Lida, in Oshmyany, then Mindovg created the GDL in Novogrudok. And Prince GDL were local Balts from the territory of Belarus, from the Lithuanian tribe that lived on the territory of Belarus. In general, Mindovg and Gedimin are descendants of the princes of Polotsk. By the way, when the GDL was formed under Mindovga, your Zhemaitiya and Aukstaitiya were not even part of the GDL, they were annexed later, and finally in 1423, because Vytautas constantly gave the territories of the modern Lithuanian Republic to the Crusaders and Livonians. And Vilna is a Belarusian city, nle zhini is our Krivichi. and it was founded by the princes of Polotsk, and Gedimin Ude moved the capital there from Novogrudok. And say thank you to Stalin for giving you our Vilna in 1939. By the way, our language and our culture were in the GDL, and our Lithuanian ancestors lived in Vilna. Lithuania is Belarus, and the Litvinovs were called by Belarusians Russian tsars after the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

[@litvin-1.4.8.8]

@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 historical Lithuania is Belarus

[@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809]

@@litvin-1.4.8.8 ultranationalism will truly eat your brain. Even I, a nationalist, need to admit that.

[@matikramer9648]

Thank you

[@zheghost.]

Ah yes... LDK LITHUANIA! whos from Lt? Labas if ur LT :3

[@mieczyslawgidel9810]

OK a co z powstaniem styczniowym? Bo wybuchło nie tylko w Polsce a także na Litwie

[@macskacica118]

Greetings from Hungary to Lithuania

[@compatriot852]

4:15 That moment when your friend Poland betrays you

[@garstead]

Meh PLC was a huge betrayal for Lithuania, a horrible time for our culture, lands, ect...

[@plrc4593]

@@garstead Ok, we'll remember that Lithuanian polonophobic comments when little green men appear in Lithuania :)

[@garstead]

@@plrc4593 im not even polonophobic im just educating a nationalist with minor brain damage

[@plrc4593]

@@garstead Then you should know that without first union with Poland, Lithuania would have most likely finished conquered by the Teutonic Order and Lithanians - like Prussians. Union with Poland was the only way.

[@garstead]

@@plrc4593 Ngl that wouldve been a bit better we'd not be Polonized

[@olisomething]

Small mistake: Memelland was annexed by lithuania in 1920. Other than that great video.

[@xwing8029]

At one point Memelland was annexed by teutonic order from Baltic tribes. Baltic tribes also originally lived in Prussia and their language had a lot of similar words to Lithuanian language. There were a lot of Baltic ethnic minorities living in Memelland. This kinda goes both ways.

[@Warsawke]

Fajne lepsze niż moję (:

[@Warsawke]

Tylko że chyba w 1939 już mieli wilno

[@POGKPP]

@@Warsawke Oni dostali w 1940 Wilno w jakimś traktacie z ZSRR że dostaną Wilno jeżeli wojsko radzieckie będzie mogło stacjonować na ich terytorium, ci się zgodzili ale potem dostali informacje że ZSRR chce ich zaanektować i nie było już wyjścia.

[@Warsawke]

@@POGKPP Aha myślałem że w 1939

[@micahistory]

hey man

[@bergahorning]

@@micahistory hey

[@traper1540]

Rzecz Pospolita Obojga Narodów

[@hfsdh9312]

rzecz pospolita obojga narodow

[@solenoid5497]

Rzecz Pospolita Obojga Narodów Dolny tekst

[@wojciech9538]

Gurny Polsga

[@martinskesteris6331]

Until 1920 Palanga was in Latvia, but well done

[@kestutisstasiulevicius8973]

Martins with all love all Latvia 200 years was in LDK its means and Palanga was in Lithuania :)

[@GASD06]

Love from Norway🇳🇴

[@ensarsancar_]

Greetings from Turkey 🇹🇷🇱🇹

[@POGKPP]

I made history of Turkey also.

[@ensarsancar_]

@@POGKPP I am very happy. I'm watching right away

[@ensarsancar_]

@@POGKPP who is chodkiewicz?

[@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838]

O czym zrobisz następny film?

[@POGKPP]

nie wiem, historia regionu prawdopodobnie.

[@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838]

@@POGKPP Ok.

[@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838]

@@POGKPP A oceniłbyś mój nowy film o współczesnej Danii?

[@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838]

@@POGKPP Kiedy historia Turcji?

[@POGKPP]

@@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838 Gdy minie tydzień od najnowszego filmu.

[@ihin2005]

No, the 3rd of May constitution didn't call it "Polish Kingdom of Stanislaus August II" It was the RZECZPOSPOLITA. There was no word of Królestwo, and in the preamble the King was introduced as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania etc., so no, Lithuania was not abolished, but the Republic was more centralized. Warsaw was already the capital of the Commonwealth since Sigismund III, it was a compromise because it was a new city between Lithuania and the old Crown.

[@loganprodukcja]

Fajny film

[@janineeidukaitiene588]

970 2020

[@sarunassens1879]

Missing a part of lands by the black sea

[@POGKPP]

Where?

[@user-wg1mv5hu5v]

@@POGKPP Скажи мне Князь Гедимин🇱🇹воевал и Сражался Вождём Венгров Мадьяров Арпадом🇭🇺⚔🇱🇹

[@ignasapeikis303]

1052 years timeline of lithuania 970-2022 AD

[@edzioxd3764]

I love lithuana from Poland

[@radekkoks1096]

Może nowy film o historii Litwy? Ten film jest trochę słaby....

[@ata2943]

❤️

[@AnakinDownWalker]

Loves from Lithuania Lietuviska pagarba

[@stormer7998]

Litwa bałtycka to prawdziwy sukcesor WKL. Tak swoją drogą to Okręg Kłajpedy był okupowany przez Litwę od 1923 co nie zostało w żaden sposób zaznaczone na filmie.

[@litvin-1.4.8.8]

Настояща Наследница ВКЛ это Славянская Литва, которая и есть Беларусь, а нынешняя республика Летува, тогда была Жемайтией, Аукштайтией, Дзукией, самогогией и сувалкией

[@minedoimperija]

@@litvin-1.4.8.8 Belarus wasn't even that much of a nation until 100 years ago bro cry about it 💀💀💀😂😂😂

[@romaanatsko4788]

@@minedoimperija Раньше на нации не делили.Беларусов уже крестили пока литовцы язычниками были😁Да и письменность Литвы сформировалась только в 16 веке.А Беларусь имеет три алфавита

[@wwFwA]

@@romaanatsko4788 russki mit litausche Akcent 😆

[@romaanatsko4788]

@@wwFwA ???

[@andrihdmapping7047]

Stanisław August Poniatowski killer the friendship

[@radekkoks1096]

Może teraz nowy odcinek bo ten trochę słaby....

[@ktdybrjkftdbx]

Литвины, это литовцы или белорусы?

[@IgnasLT1111]

История Беларуси: Территория, ныне известная как Беларусь, первоначально была заселена восточнославянскими племенами, а затем была включена в состав империи Киевской Руси в 9 веке. В 14 веке Беларусь перешла под контроль Великого княжества Литовского, могущественного государства, включавшего также современную Литву и части Украины и Польши. Это положило начало периоду тесных культурных и политических связей Беларуси с ее соседями. В конце 18 века Беларусь была присоединена к Российской империи в результате раздела Польши. Под властью России Беларусь подверглась значительной русификации с подавлением белорусского языка и культуры. Во время Первой мировой войны Беларусь ненадолго обрела независимость в составе недолговечной Белорусской Народной Республики. Однако вскоре страна была оккупирована немецкими войсками, а затем включена в состав Советского Союза. Беларусь провозгласила независимость от Советского Союза в 1991 году, после краха советского режима. С тех пор страна пережила политические потрясения и экономические проблемы: в 1994 году к власти пришел президент Александр Лукашенко и установил сильный авторитарный режим. Сегодня Беларусь остается в значительной степени авторитарным государством с испытывающей трудности экономикой. Страна продолжает бороться с политическими репрессиями, нарушениями прав человека и напряженностью в отношениях с соседними странами, особенно с Россией и Украиной. вуп вуп😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Jonuxas]

My from lithuania😊

[@fidenemini111]

Good, good! Like it.

[@tatarkhan33]

Lithuania is a great nation greetings from Bulgaria 🇧🇬🤜🤛🇱🇹

[@jenniferdunn8386]

3:37 I doubt that happened

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

The video has two crucial mistakes. So first, that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and secondly is it wrong, that the wrong term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" is used. In the Union of Krewo of 1385, a personal union was agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With this union, the Polish king also became the king of Lithuania and and from then Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. It is no coincidence that Lithuania today has only 2.7 million inhabitants. Poland, on the other hand, has 15 times as many inhabitants. In 1918 only 4% of Lithuanians lived in the former lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then called Wilno in Polish. The vast majority of residents spoke Polish, not Lithuanian. This was changed in 1945 when the Lithuanians and the Soviets expelled the Polish inhabitants. Many Poles were also murdered. But that's actually a different topic. In any case, the later monarchical republic "Rzeczpospolita" like the kingdom before was completely dominated by the Poles. So it's no coincidence that it's was the Polish name "Rzeczpospolita". The official languages were Polish and Latin not Lithuanian. Poles completely dominated the Lithuanians. Lithuania was voluntarily polonized. All relevant was Polish like also the Polish currency Polski Złoty. Złoty means golden in Polish. The capitals of entire state was first the Polish cities Krakow which was later replaced with the Polish city of Warsaw as the capital and the polish kings resided in these capitals and the later established parliament met there. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi from 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This Polish constitution was one of the primary elements of the democratic governance of the Noblemen’s democracy of Poland. This constitution was actually also the transformation from the Polish kingdom to the Rzeczpospolita (republic). Yes, of course, there was a advantage to becoming a Pole not only for Lithuanians. That is why Lithuanians but also others became Polish. Polish dominance over Lithuania also illustrates that the Polish king automatically became the grand duke of Lithuania. That was by far not the only additional title of the Polish kings. In the end, the title Grand Duke of Lithuania was just one of many Polish king's titles. The title was particularly important only at the beginning of the Polish rule over Lithuania, when the Lithuanian nobility was not yet Polonized. At that time the Poles still had to pretend the Lithuanian nobility that this was not a takeover. The treaty of Krewo for personal union of Poland with Lithuania in 1385 was the first step in Poland's takeover of Lithuania. This union was declared indissoluble. This personal union meant that the Polish king should also be the ruler of Lithuania. In fact, the union treaty also contained the provision of the attaching of Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands to the Polish Crown. However, the various other treaties which followed this treaty actually meant the takeover and Polonization of Lithuania too. A significant resolution was the adoption of Polish administrative divisions and offices like voivode and castellan by Lithuania. Even more important was that in total 47 selected Lithuanian nobles were adopted by Polish nobles heraldic families and granted Polish coats of arm. This symbolic gesture signified their desire to adopt Polish customs and integrate into Polish society. By the waay, the wars that this Polish empire waged are also not called Polish-Lithuanian wars in the literature and in internet links, but rather Polish wars, such as the Polish-Ottoman War, Polish Swedish war or also Polish-Russian war, as also shown as Polish Russian Wars in this KZbin video with the title: "The Polish-Russian Wars" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rl7ch42tq8uKY6s This makes it clear that historians around the world actually recognize that this was Poland and not Poland-Lithuania, because the Poles were also the political and military dominant ethnic group of this Empire. The Poles ruled not only the Lithuanians but also various other peoples and 5 different religious groups. So it was a Polish empire, because the Poles were the nation in power. The Poles ruled the other peoples and partially assimilated them. Only one nation was relevant in this empire and that was the Poles. So it's wrong in the video that Lithuania from 1385 is not shown as part of the Polish kingdom and so not shown as part of the Polish Empire. In the comment below I then explain why it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth".

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

It is also wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as used in the video. To use the term Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is wrong for two reasons! First reason! To use the term "Commonwealth" in the name of the state is nonsensical, as it suggests a kind of equality that did not exist! That was a Polish empire, which is why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong. This state was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians as the wrong term Commonwealth suggests. So the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles imperial ruling ethnic group completely dominated this state and all peoples of the empire. Lithuania was part of the Polish Empire in both periods of Polish history in the period of Polish Kingdom and Polish Rzeczpospolita and the Lithuanians were also mastered by the Poles in both periods. There was no equality whatsoever, as the misnomer "Commonwealth" would suggest. Polish wealth was always decisive. So if anything then Polishwealth and not Commonwealth. The state took over the Polish constitution Nihil Novi in 1505 and not a Lithuanian constitution. This constitution of 1505 was the actual founding of the Rzeczpospolita as a Polish noble republican democracy. Determined by the Polish Parliament Sejm! That the Poles dominated the state is also clearly shown by the Polish name Rzeczpospolita of that state. It was revolutionary at that time, because 10%-15% of the population, which was the Polish nobility at that time, had the power for the internal affairs of the state. In the rest of Europe, the proportion of the population of the nobility was 1% of the population and not 10-15% as in Poland. In the rest of Europe, with the exception of England and some Italian republics, ruled despotic monarchs. It is always wrong claimed that the Rzeczpospolita was founded with the Lublin Union in 1569. Because the Rzeczpospolita was actually established much earlier, with the revolutionary Polish constitution "Nihil Novi "passed by the Polish parliament in 1505 and applied to the entire Polish Empire which is why the Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility got constitutional rights too. But a large part of the nobility ruling the empire with the king was Polish. Through this revolutionary constitution Nihil Novi, the Polish Empire became the Rzeczpospolita Nobles' Democracy! The Polish Empire was no longer called the Kingdom of Poland, but the most serene (most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. The constitution was the primary element of the democratic governance in the Polish kingdom which granted Parliament extensive powers. The Parliament (Sejm) was a powerful political institution and the king could not pass most of laws without the approval of that body. But before the Polish Rzeczpospolita the Polish kingdom was an empire and as Rzeczpospolita Poland continued to be an empire! A Polish republic which was amazingly nevertheless a monarchy with a king elected by the nobility! This incorrect translation actually also falsifies historical reality by adding "Polish- Lithuanian" before the wrong term "Commonwealth"". But such a term as a state name, which would be in Polish "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" (English Polish-Lithuanian Republic), never existed and such a term was never used. So also the use of "Polish-Lithuanian" in this name falsifies historical reality, because also through this term arises the fallacy that this state was a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. But the Rzeczpospolita was not a kind of legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. Even the Polish Kingdom before that was not such legal basis for the equality and equal status of Poles and Lithuanians. There was also no Polish-Lithuanian kingdom and therefore such a term was not used. The Grand Duchy was of course mastered by the Kingdom and not the other way around. So the Polish kingdom mastered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as other territories. Because that was a Polish Empire and not a Polish Lithuanian Empire. Poles dominated all peoples of the empire and the entire state. Because the Poles were the imperial ruling ethnic group. There was no equality whatsoever as the wrong term "common wealth" suggests. The purpose of this state was not the common wealth of Poles and Lithuanians, but Polish wealth. The smart Polanders only feigned equality for the Lithuanians for a while, until they secured power throughout the Empire. The state was never called "polsko-litewska Rzeczpospolita" meaning Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in English. NEVER! But unfortunately this wrong name and wrong translation with the historically wrong addition of Polish-Lithuanian is used by historians worldwide, although it is actually complete nonsense. The second reason why the term "Commonwealth" is wrong is the fact that "Commonwealth" is a mistranslation of the Polish term Rzeczpospolita. So this term is wrong because the term Polish-Lithuanian "Commonwealth" is a modern, nonsensical invention by 20th century historians which is based on a wrong translation that does not correspond to reality. This state was never called Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. NEVER! Used in international treaties and diplomacy, the state has been called the most serene ( most high) Rzeczpospolita Poland. Its residents simply referred it in the everyday language as Rzeczpospolita or Poland occasionally also the crown. The correct translation for Rzeczpospolita is Republic and certainly not Commonwealth. In other languages ​​it is also correctly translated as a republic, but in English it is always translated incorrectly as Commonwealth and not correctly republic. The wrong translation is used again and again. But even today, is the official Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska. Lithuania doesn't call itself that way. Because in reality, Poland was the Rzeczpospolita in earlier times and is that still today! Would one call Poland today Commonwealth because Poland is now Rzeczpospolita (Republic)? Of course not, because it is wrong today as it was wrong in the past to call this Polish state Commonwealth! Today Rzeczpospolita Polska is also correctly translated in English as the Republic of Poland and not wrong Commonwealth Poland! Why is that then wrongly translated with Commonwealth for the earlier times. Actually absurd! Incidentally, the first documented with the use of the term Rzeczpospolit as a designation of the Polish state can be found in Maćka Borkowica's act of allegiance, for the Polish king Kazimierz the Great on 16. February 1358 in the town of Sieradz. At that time Lithuania was not yet united with Poland at all! So a Polish term for Poland! For all the reasons it is wrong to use the term "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"!

[@hido8967]

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars it was polish-lithuanian, cope

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@hido8967 Your claim is wrong, because that was the Polish Empire!

[@oceanman9559]

​@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsyou're retarded

[@polska487]

I respect Lithuania and I want the Polish Lithuanian Comonwealth!

[@Tramigais]

Sveicieni no 🇱🇻

[@bergahorning]

Fajne

[@kamillaskowski6061]

🇵🇱❤️🇱🇹

[@Crazyman12457]

Lithuania used to collect slavs like pokemons

[@algisseputis6630]

Aciu

[@eqyda7971]

Chin lub Japonii

[@user-gd6rc5ct2v]

надо было ещё добавить Литовскую ССР

[@polish3301]

A co to jest ? Prowincja czerwonej tatarsko-rosyjskiej imperium !

[@benaspetkevicius7139]

vilnius yra musu sostine daar

[@eqyda7971]

Hói W tytule jest błąd bo jest do 2020 a jest do 2021

[@coster8956]

Naprawde super film!

[@gerso3662]

3:36 *TRIGGERED LITHUANIAN*

[@IgnasLT1111]

Never tell Belarus of potatues state🥔 why they stealing Lithuanian history. Cause Belarus has small history and was to jealous to say😂

[@hfsdh9312]

rigcz

[@kosmiczny3035]

Litwo, Ojczyzno moja

[@fidenemini111]

Ty jesteś jak zdrowie

[@iroland5812]

@@fidenemini111 Ile Cię trzeba cenić

[@IgnasLT1111]

if poland wouldn't revome Lithuania maybe we would be all stronger

[@tortuga_gamer_4450]

F ITS LITHUANAA

[@emailwilliamgrobanmanageme6677]

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[@emailwilliamgrobanmanageme6677]

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[@jenniferdunn8386]

3:38 pretty sure that never happened in history

[@user-wg1mv5hu5v]

Князь Гедимин🇱🇹воевал и сражался Вождём Венгров Мадьяров Арпадом🇭🇺⚔🇱🇹

[@polish3301]

Co ?

[@szpulc]

To historia Bialorusi..

[@POGKPP]

Tylko WKL

[@szpulc]

@justrix 9 belarus and lithuania is Great duchy Lithuania.

[@kestutisstasiulevicius8973]

@@szpulc LITHUANIA is Grand Duchy of Lithuania, belarus is fake respublik stop writting shit

[@mp1335]

@@kestutisstasiulevicius8973 Ataušk su savo "fake respublik". Kimbi ant trolių, kurie bando kurstyti neapykantą tarp dviejų tautų kaip koks vaikas.

[@kestutisstasiulevicius8973]

@@mp1335 kaip čia gali ataušt jei po kiekvienu video apie Lietuva sėdi troliai ir pisa prota visiems kas žiūri, kad čia jų istorija ir jie yra Lietuva, o mes tik žemaičiai. O jūs visi tylit ir bijot aštresnį komentara atsakyt.

[@Beeglswoord]

Lithuania propria is not ethnic but territorial term, where slavs lived too.

[@kestutisstasiulevicius8973]

Lithuania is ethnic, but Grand Duchy of Lithuania is territorial, example same like Great Britain is not England only it is all union but capital or main land is England. So and Lithuania with Vilnius was main land and capital of GDL

[@mp1335]

@@kestutisstasiulevicius8973 Well... define "ethnic" please.

[@majus1334]

@@mp1335 You can google that.

[@user-mz4yc9dx2i]

Interesting, that the biggest part of history of Lithuania is history of Belarus . Grodno and Polotsk is Lithuanian name, this is Belarus history. Lithuania is part of Belarus. Hello from Japan.

[@user-mz4yc9dx2i]

About Lithuanian names is joke

[@spelltairen3509]

This country was ruled by lithuanians and Grodno is Gardinas it's lithuanian name of the city I have many more proofs because it was Lithuania (And belarus should be part of Lithuania)

[@spelltairen3509]

Or Russia because they all speak Russian not Belarussian.

[@ianyacuk6883]

@@spelltairen3509 Then why is Belarusian a language? Belarusian existed for a long time. It's just because russification in the Russian Empire and the Soviet union affected us a lot. And when we got independent in 1991, People started to learn Belarusian until Lukashenka came and discouraged Belarusian and the usage of Russian instead. Belarusians are their own thing like Ukraine.

[@spelltairen3509]

@@ianyacuk6883 Yes I know about it, sorry when I'm angry I can say everything

[@aidenredlin]

It's funny how Lithuania was what I call a Slavic Superpower and then get weaker. But a lot of other nations have gone through that, too. So I am not complaining.

[@JackTheRocky]

We aren't slavs, we are balts mate.

[@aidenredlin]

@@JackTheRocky Baltics are still apart of the Slavic sphere.

[@JackTheRocky]

@@aidenredlin not sure why wiki decided to put baltic language under slavic sphere (i smell tinkering), but it's really not. It's roots are from Indo-european, but it goes separately as others do.

[@aidenredlin]

@@JackTheRocky Ah, I see. I assumed it to be in the Slavic Sphere AND it's own sphere because it was controlled by the Russians for a very long time.

[@mp1335]

@@aidenredlin "controlled by Russian" - citation needed

[@Nenarodec]

The Republic of Lietuva was created on the core of Samogitia, by various samogitians with their headman Smyatons from Kowno. The borders of Lietuva until 1939 1 in 1 coincide with the border of Samogitia, in Lietuva now the official language is the Samogotian dialect. The name Lietuva was invented at the end of the 19th century by the Lietuva tariba, in order to play on the analogies of Great Lithuania. Samogitia (the territory of present-day Lietuva) was annexed to Lithuania only in the 15th century and was conquered from the Teutons. The historical region "Lithuania" is a settlement of the western Slavs Lutici - Wilci who came from the regions of Prussia after the persecution of the sword-bearers, it was they who gave the names Vilia, Vilna, Vileika, Vilkomir, Volkovysk. Wilk is the Wolf. Wilci - lutichi, like the Slavs, fought side by side with the Polotsk duke, this is clearly recorded in the chronicles "The Polotsk duke went to war with his Lithuania." Further, the princes of the Western Slavs, the Wilci, married the princesses of Polotsk, which gives Slavic Lithuania expanded to all of Ruthenia. Gedimin's sons were from Orthodox wives. Further, the Jagiello clan (an offshoot of the Gedeminovs) was born in Vilna (remember that Vilna was not part of Somogitia at that time), married Jadwiga and became the King of Poland. The Kreva union was signed in the city of Kreva, the historical land of slavic Krivichi, and not some other Samogitan land. And so on and so on until the last king of the Commonwealth of both peoples, August Poniatovsky who was a native of the Brest region. Kingdom of Poland simply could not create an alliance with the Samogitians, rven their language they did not understand each other, the only ones with whom it was possible an alliance of the Slavs from protection on the one side of Muscovy, on the other side of Prussia-Germany. And last Poland president Pilsudski, Józef, in fact the founder of today's Poland, borned in Zulov, Vilensky region (I remind you once again that at that time Vilno region was not part of Lietuva), His father Jozef Vincent Piotr Piłsudski came from the ancient family of Ginetovich and Mother Maria Billevich is from a well-known Belarusian-Polish-Lithuanian noble family (Lithuanian not to be confused with Lietuva-Samogotia). The above briefly listed already proves Lietuva neither at the origins of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, nor the Commonwealth. All that they managed, after the defeat of the uprising of 1863, 70 years later for the introduction of Soviet troops, to get someone else's Vilna for free and try to ascribe someone else's history to themselves

[@litvin-1.4.8.8]

Полностью согласен

[@pigeoninanutshell]

What are your sources, only valuable sources were past 1200, Also if you have good books then you would see that in the Creation of Vilnius its name comes from a river, The Lithuanian name is disputed but its most likely comes from the Ethnics living in Lithuania, Lithuanians. You have no source to confirm your propaganda filled by Luhashenko, In fact the First capital was Kernave and not Novogorduk those are conquered territories, also by 1918-1922 Sources stated that the Belarussians joined the Lithuanians in the army and Antanas Smetona Stated, That they were Pro-Lithuanian and seeked to Unite with the Lithuanians into a Singular Nation but the Poles and Soviets Occupied Belarus and the Vilnius Region, Also Wilno isn't the offical name of Vilnius, the City has been ruled by Poles for only 20 years, and The true name was Vilnius, But lithuanians liked to shorten it to Vilno or Vilna, Vilna - In Lithuanian to English is Wool.

[@romtube2010]

Lituane was a name of current Belarus. Current Lithuania was Samagotia. All documents and con-situation on that period was on belarus language. Vilna (renamed to Vilnius) was cuted from Belarus and gaved to Samagotia (Zmudi) by Stalin at 1939-1940. Red real history and check old maps.

[@nerijusltu13]

Horoso papizdel :D

[@fresconle7939]

@@nerijusltu13 pozhemy on napizdel ? Etnicheski Litwa deistvitelno byla bolsh belaryskai nesheli litowskai , tak yak bolsheye kolichestvo nacelenia sostavlyali belarusiny , odnako zakony isdavalis na litowskom lish w samogotii , belaruskaya mowa odna iz blizhnih da litovskai ale oni ne razymeli , I zakony w Polotske ,Minske ,Belastoke, Grodna I mnogih grugih gorodah isdavalis na starobelaruskom

[@fresconle7939]

@@nerijusltu13 Хватит ругаться и спорить чей была литва , беларусы и литовцы жили тогда в ней и всем было плевать , зато теперь ее нет , и нет вообще смысла думать кто там правил ,потому что из за амбиций поляков они разрушили нас общий дом ,и теперь прибалты живут отдельно от беларусов .

[@nerijusltu13]

@@fresconle7939 Cto davno dokazano ja dokazivat nesabirajus... i ucit menia istoriju mojei strani eto smeshno.. S litcvinami vsio poniatno... stil ruskix... oni vorujet vsio, i daze cuzije teritoriji okupirujet... i litcvini poxozije vori... esli litcvini budut idti takim putiom to sorry rebiata... lucse smotrite v storonu rosiji... nam takije sosedi nenuzni....

[@fresconle7939]

@@nerijusltu13 historya obchaya ale wy zabrali sabe tak sama nashy simwoliky I gerb , ya ne razymeyu washy logiky ,a poslya getaga ob'yawlyaete nas worami , belarus mae takoe zhe pravo na GDL taksama yak I litva z latwyei , a esli washi tak ne schitayut to o kakom bratstve I sosedskih otnosheniyah idet rech.