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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Duchy of Kalisz

drawn on the map 1210–1219

A Greater Poland duchy centered on Kalisz, frequently united with Gniezno or Poznań. Reintegrated into the reunited kingdom in the early 14th century.

Shown on the map
1210–1219
Peak area
3k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

A Greater Poland duchy centered on Kalisz, frequently united with Gniezno or Poznań. Reintegrated into the reunited kingdom in the early 14th century.

Common questions

What was the Duchy of Kalisz?
A Greater Poland duchy centered on Kalisz, frequently united with Gniezno or Poznań. Reintegrated into the reunited kingdom in the early 14th century.
When is the Duchy of Kalisz shown on the map?
The border data draws the Duchy of Kalisz 1210–1219. 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 Kalisz?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Kalisz covered about 3,000 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:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

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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