Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period

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Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period was a vast multiethnic commonwealth in Eastern Europe that became a major political power and a principal cultural, religious, and demographic center of Ashkenazi Jewry.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf European great power
early modern state
historical polity
multiethnic commonwealth
borders Crimean Khanate
Habsburg Monarchy
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Sweden
linked to: Sweden

Ottoman Empire
Tsardom of Russia
continent Europe
endTime late 18th century
formedByUnionOf Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
hasCapital Kraków
Warsaw
hasCulturalFeature religious pluralism relative to contemporaries
hasDemographicFeature largest Jewish population in Europe
hasEconomicActivity grain export via Baltic ports
hasEconomicSystem manorial economy
serfdom-based agriculture
hasGovernmentalPrinciple Golden Liberty
hasInstitution liberum veto in the Sejm
linked to: Sejm
hasJewishInstitution Council of Four Lands
Va’ad Medinat Lita (Council of the Land of Lithuania)
hasLegalDocument Warsaw Confederation (1573) guaranteeing religious freedoms
hasLegalStatusForNobility extensive political rights
hasLegislature Sejm
hasMajorEthnicGroup Armenians
Germans
Jews
Lithuanians
Poles
Ruthenians (Ukrainians and Belarusians)
linked to: Ukrainians

Tatars
hasMajorLanguage German
Hebrew
Lithuanian
Polish
Ruthenian (Old Belarusian / Old Ukrainian)
linked to: Old East Slavic

Yiddish
hasMajorReligion Eastern Orthodoxy
Judaism
Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
hasNobilityClass szlachta
hasNotableRuler John III Sobieski
Sigismund I the Old
Sigismund II Augustus
Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski
Stephen Báthory
hasOfficialLanguage Latin
Polish
Ruthenian (Chancery Slavonic)
linked to: Old East Slavic
hasPoliticalSystem elective monarchy
nobles’ republic
hasRulerTitle King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
isMajorCenterOf Ashkenazi Jewry
Jewish religious scholarship
Yiddish culture
locatedIn Central Europe
Eastern Europe
partOf Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
significantEvent Battle of Vienna (1683)
linked to: Battle of Vienna

Deluge (Swedish and Russian invasions, mid-17th century)
Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1657)
Partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795)
Union of Lublin (1569)
Wars with the Ottoman Empire
startTime late 15th century
timePeriod early modern period

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Jewish diaspora hasCenter Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period
Jan Zamoyski movement Golden Age of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
linked to: Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period
Second Partition of Poland category History of Poland (1569–1795)
linked to: Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period