Cheeky, possessive, devilishly effective. He feared nothing. Not anyone. He always took what he wanted. He defeated and humiliated the German emperor. He conquered Prague, ravaged the Połaba and seized Kyiv. Even the Vikings trembled before him ... The state of Bolesław the Brave stretched from
They have abused children and the court, but have also experienced countless atrocities themselves. They contributed to the fall of Poland, but one of them proudly indicated that he had a Polish father. They professed Orthodoxy, but saved the ultra-Catholic order. What else should you know about the
The chroniclers called him Great and Great. He was a charismatic and fearless fighter and an excellent strategist who exploited even the slightest weakness of his opponent. It caused fear from the Elbe to Kyiv and from the Baltic to the Danube. He proved that Poles must be reckoned with. He conq
The chroniclers called him Great and Great. He was a fearless fighter and an excellent strategist who exploited even the slightest weakness of his opponent. You can read about his conquests in the book The Birth of Power, which is a prize in our competition. In todays competition, we have for yo
Bolesław the Brave conquered many lands, but the capital city of Gniezno was not threatened until 1003, when he took control of Praga. The Czech capital was a city from a completely different league. There is a view that the Polish ruler wanted to move his capital to the Vltava River. Or maybe even
The feathers on his head were worn by the King of England, on the advice of the Pope himself. They were paraded by the empress of Byzantium and even Justinian the Great himself. One of the most famous Polish monarchs also had his own headdress. And it was by no means a worthless prop! The starti
Massive arrests, assaults, beatings, political murders. Full prisons and cellars, 70 concentration camps, the death penalty carried out with an ax. This is how the Nazis seized power and pacified German society. Adolf Hitlers assumption of the post of chancellor on January 30, 1933 marked the be
The Germans loved their leader so much that the Nazis did not even have to deal with the rigging of the elections. The opponents of the dictatorship were stuck in a dull apathy. And the hard opposition can hardly even be called a couch. Paradoxically, the ancestors of modern German historical po
In order to broaden the limits of their sovereignty, they did not shy away from even the most drastic measures. Castles and blood-drenched castles and states ... How did the first Piasts REALLY fought? As always, all positions in the TOP10 ranking are based on the articles we publish. This time
It is 1806. A group of commandos arrives in occupied Greater Poland to perform one of the most daring operations in history:to kidnap Napoleon Bonaparte and substitute a double in his place. The stars of the Tory opposition, the liberals:Count Henry Bathurst and Spencer Perceval, led by Lord Cas
Nobody asked her opinion and she was too young to understand what awaited her. It was not a joyful or even solemn moment. In addition, the groom at the decisive moment ... dirty the bed with feces. Jadwiga was born in mid-February 1374. She was the third and last daughter of Ludwig of Hungary. An
Nobody would give him a crown for free. And the Pope with whom Władysław Łokietkowi had to negotiate turned out to be particularly demanding. Not to be straightforward:extremely greedy. From 1316, John XXII sat on the throne of Peter. His pontificate was not without controversy. Some historians
London was called little Europe. It is hard to believe how many governments and how many rulers took refuge in the Isles to observe Hitlers triumphal march from a distance. Instead of uniting in a common fight against the occupier, they showed a display of shameful partyism and arrogance. Not all of
Why did the Weimar Republic transform into the Third Reich? How were the ingredients of Nazi triumph collected, and what was needed to make them work together? You will learn all this from the book by prof. Richard J. Evans, entitled Advent of the Third Reich, which is a prize in our competition.
In the late Middle Ages, one country met up to 80% of European gold demand. A country co-ruled by a Polish woman. And which unexpectedly became an undisputed superpower. At the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Hungary was a poor country, torn apart by internal conflicts, and even
The year 1917. The First World War seems to be endless. Millions of soldiers are dying in the trenches. Planes drop bombs. The first tanks are feared among the infantry. The victims of combat gases suffer inhumanly. But the turn in the arena of warfare will come about thanks to one man. A brilli
The forces of the enemies have conspired against the Kingdom. The enemy from all sides invaded its lands, persecuted the inhabitants, ruthlessly plundered palaces, villages and temples. Until finally they arose ... Sounds like the beginning of a crazy novel? No, its Polish history. Some people c
He had the blood of millions on his hands. Everyone feared for their lives in front of him. How did he treat his own children? Was he a tyrant or a loving daddy? He supported his descendants, or maybe ... threw logs at their feet? One thing is certain:Yakov, Vasily and Svetlana could only dream of a
They chose not just anyone:kings, dignitaries, presidents. Some used pistols, others constructed bombs or organized ambushes. If they had succeeded, history books would have looked COMPLETELY different today. And not always because of who died ... but also because of who killed! As always, all T
When he was elected king of Poland, he was already 42 years old. He was our first monarch not to be able to write prince or king in the father column. He had to fight for everything he owned. Even if it involved beheading enemies and cutting the noses of hundreds of soldiers. Stefan Batory was b
Its a story so old, it makes even Christianity seem like a religion born yesterday. Demonism and therefore exorcism goes hand in hand with mans fear of the unknown, it survives to this day and because we do not know this unknown and if we will ever get rid of it, it seems that it has a long future a
The past era was full of many great interests between the so-called Peoples Poland and the Soviet Union. It is hard to find a more emphatic example than the replacement of the border areas made in 1951. It was unbelievable how much we lost by giving back the coal-rich Bugs knee in exchange for a pie
Hindus sit and eat food separately and the place of their food is a square covered with cow dung. They do not use waste and if the utensils in which they eat are of clay, then after eating food they throw away the utensils. – Albiruni, 10-11th century AD. Medieval Indian society was an evolved fo
Presumed portrait of the twenty-year-old Marquis De Sade The storming of the Bastille , which took place on 14 July 1789 in Paris, it is considered the event that officially started the French Revolution. When the rioters broke into the old fortress, long used as a prison, to free the pris