God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
30 POLSKA unhistorical, and contrary to common sense. In the past, and particularly in the era of the united Polish-Lithuanian R ...
THE POLISH LAND 31 any particular moment, their loyalties were determined by the delicate balance between their need for protect ...
32- POLSKA from the sea, and to shut it into its landlocked heart. The Pomeranian Lakeland, the Mazurian Lakeland, and the Lithu ...
THE POLISH LAND 33 still further. The Amber Road of ancient times, and the medieval Prussian Road, both traversed Polish territo ...
34 POLSKA distinguished hunters from Archduke Francis-Ferdinand to Air Marshal Hermann Goering did notable damage. It is difficu ...
THE POLISH LAND 35 be Gothic in origin. The Przeworsk Culture of Silesia (from 400 to c. AD 600) brings Polish archaeology to th ...
Map 3. Polish Prehistory: A. The Autochthonous View B. The Non-autochthonous View ...
THE POLISH LAND 37 place, the supposition of a continuous North Carpathian Culture of Slavonic character, lasting throughout the ...
38 POLSKA Diagram C. The Ancestral Homeland of the Slavs burying their dead in tumuli; but their particular ethnic connections c ...
THE POLISH LAND 39 In the Roman period, a massive influx of Celts was provoked by disturbances over the mountains in Bohemia. Th ...
40 POLSKA that 'at this point our knowledge of the world ends'.^5 In his review of the tribes of Germania, he mentions the Lemov ...
THE POLISH LAND 41 Englishmen in the age of Hengist and Horsa. In the last resort, all our ancestors were alien mongrel immigran ...
Diagram D. The Slavonic Languages ...
THE POLISH LAND 43 more favourable in the high medieval period than at any time before or since. Research in the Karkonosze Moun ...
44 POLSKA population of 1,125,000 in the nascent Polish kingdom. It compares to a con- temporary population density in Bohemia a ...
THE POLISH LAND 45 examples could be cited. In the Lustracja of the Palatinate of Cracow in 1564, for instance, the district of ...
The Estate of Szaffliary, with its land and ancient castle Four witnesses came forward and confirmed under oath that there were ...
mk./gr./d. Livestock: Milking cows (30) at 2 zl., makes 37 24 0 sterile cows (2); common cattle (40); calves (8); fattened hogs ...
48 POLSKA "Western Pomerania lasted for only a few years in the tenth and twelfth centuries; whilst the hold over East Prussia b ...
THE POLISH LAND 49 territory, both in itself and as a means of passage to points further afield. To its German neighbours, it of ...
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