Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Duchy of Greater Poland
drawn on the map 1139–1304
The historic core around Poznań and Gniezno (the first Polish capital and archiepiscopal see). A major duchy of the fragmentation period; its duke Przemysł II briefly restored the royal crown in 1295 before his murder in 1296.
- Shown on the map
- 1139–1304
- Peak area
- 116k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The historic core around Poznań and Gniezno (the first Polish capital and archiepiscopal see). A major duchy of the fragmentation period; its duke Przemysł II briefly restored the royal crown in 1295 before his murder in 1296. Reincorporated into the reunified kingdom in the early 14th century.
Common questions
- What was the Duchy of Greater Poland?
- The historic core around Poznań and Gniezno (the first Polish capital and archiepiscopal see). A major duchy of the fragmentation period; its duke Przemysł II briefly restored the royal crown in 1295 before his murder in 1296.
- When is the Duchy of Greater Poland shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Duchy of Greater Poland 1139–1304. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Duchy of Greater Poland?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Greater Poland covered about 116,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Greater Poland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland
This entry was last updated .
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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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