Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Latin: Corona Regni Poloniae), known also as the Polish Crown, is the common name for the historic Late Middle Ages territorial possessions of the King of Poland, including the Kingdom of Poland proper. The Polish Crown was at the helm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1795.[citation needed]
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland | |||||||||||||
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1385–1795 | |||||||||||||
Anthem: "Bogurodzica" "Mother of God" "Gaude Mater Polonia"[1] "Rejoice, oh Mother Poland" | |||||||||||||
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland within Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635. | |||||||||||||
Status | Part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) | ||||||||||||
Capital | Kraków (before 1596) Warsaw (after 1596) | ||||||||||||
Official languages | Polish, Latin | ||||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||||
Government | Unitary parliamentary Elective constitutional monarchy | ||||||||||||
Legislature | Sejm | ||||||||||||
Senate | |||||||||||||
Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages Early modern Europe | ||||||||||||
August 14 1385 | |||||||||||||
1 July 1569 | |||||||||||||
May 3, 1791 | |||||||||||||
January 7 1795 | |||||||||||||
Currency | Grosz | ||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | PL | ||||||||||||
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