courts: appeal 89; castellans 46; county 46; ecclesiastical 46, 67-8, 72, 73; magnates 172-3, 181, 184; manorial 50; Supreme 47, 89; starostas 46
Coxe, Leonard 102
Cranmer, Thomas 70
Crimea 141, 143, 148, 239-40, 242, 245, 249
Crimean War 239-40, 242, 245, 249
Crusades 15
Cudnów, Battle of (1660) 151
culture: Commonwealth 85, 98-105, 128, 131-2; Congress Kingdom 198, 230; early Polish 98-9; Enlightenment 197-203; fifteenth-century 52-3; partition 197-203, 252-7, 277-81; People’s Republic 346, 352-3, 359-60, 377-8; Positivist Movement 277-80, 281;
’Curzon Line’ 325, 327
Cyrankiewicz, Józef 334, 355
Czacki, Tadeusz 229
Czarniecki, Stefan 148, 157
Czarnkowski, Bishop of Pozna 67
Czartoryska, Princess Konstancja 190
Czartoryski, Prince Adam Jerzy 220-1, 226, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 235, 236, 238, 239-40, 242, 251, 255
Czartoryski, Prince Adam Kazimierz 190, 191, 197, 201, 220
Czartoryski, Prince August 182, 190
Czartoryski, Michał 152-3, 190
Czartoryski family 148, 152-3, 157, 190, 201, 255;
Czartoryski party/faction 236, 251, 255
Czech Brethren 64
Czech Republic 402, 404
Czecho-Slovak state 293
Czechoslovakia 336, 363, 386
Czechowicz, Marcin 64
Czech people 3, 4, 9, 28, 64
Częstochowa monastery 148
Dąbrowa Basin 269, 270
Dąbrowski, General Jan 215, 220, 221, 224
Dąbrowski, Jarosław 242, 254, 276, 381
Dąbski, Jan 296
d’Alembert, Jean 197
Dantyszek, Jan 61
Danzig, Free City of 304, 309, 311, 312
Darwin, Charles 277
Daszyński, Ignacy 292
Dekert, Jan 201, 207
Delegatura 321, 323, 328, 332, 333
Dembiński, General Henryk 239
Democratic Union (UD) 389
Democrats 237, 252, 287
Denikin, General Anton 294
Denisko, Colonel Joachim 219
Denmark 4, 20, 23, 30, 111, 149, 157, 165
Deutscher Ostmark Verein 264
Diderot, Denis 197
Diebitsch, General Ivan 233, 234
diplomatic missions, Polish 152-3
Długosz, Jan 37, 47, 52-3
Dmitry, Tsar 121-2
Dmowski, Roman 286, 288, 291, 310
Dnieper River xix, 142, 151, 204
Dniester River 163
Dobrava, Princess 4
Doenhoff, Stanisław 182
Dominican Order 126
Drohojowski, Bishop of Kujavia 65
Drucki-Lubecki, Prince Franciszek 232, 269
Drzymała, Michał 264
Duma, Russian 288, 297
Dumouriez, Colonel Charles François193
Dupont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel 197
Dutch Mennonites 64
Dutch settlements 50, 64
Dwernicki, General Józef 233
Dygat, Stanisław 360
Działyński, Adam Tytus 229
Dzierżyński, Feliks 284
ecclesiastical courts 46, 67-8, 72, 73
economy: agriculture
education: Catholic Church’s role in 14; Commission for National Education (1773) 197; decline in seventeenth century 159; Jesuits and 144, 159, 189, 197; partition 274-5; People’s Republic 351-2, 373; Polish Republic 309-10; Russianisation 274-5; schools 14, 100, 197, 199; universities 32, 100-1, 127-8, 197, 229, 309, 358, 359; World War II 318, 321
Edward IV, King of England 70
Elbe, River 3, 8
Elbląg (Elbing) 23, 51, 92, 155, 364
elections, Duma 288, 297
elections, Polish kings 84-5, 106-9, 112-13, 136, 162, 163, 175-6, 180, 191
elections, Polish parliamentary: 1922 298-9; 1928 300-1; 1930 301; 1935 302; 1938 302; 1947 335; 1957 358; 1989 382-4; 1990 388; 1991 389, 396, 397; 1993 382, 391; presidential (1995) 392; 1997 392-3; presidential (2000) 393; 2001 393-4; 2005 394; 2007 396; presidential (2005) 394-5
Elert, Piotr 131
Elizabeth of Habsburg, Queen of Poland 55, 68
emigration: Jews 345; Poles 263, 267, 306, 345, 356, 367, 395
émigrés, Polish 213, 251-2, 253-4, 276, 277, 360, 367, 373, 399
Engels, Friedrich 239, 247
Enlightenment 189, 197-203, 221
Erasmus 70, 102, 103-4, 125
Eric, King of Sweden and Denmark 4
Eric XIV, King of Sweden 113
Estonia 389
ethnic minorities within Poland 1-2, 9-10, 15, 17, 92-3, 104-5, 110, 218-19, 303-4, 322, 339-40, 342-5;
European Union 392, 393, 401, 402, 404, 405, 408
executionist movement 71-2, 73, 79, 98, 112
exile, Poles 249, 251-7, 271, 276, 278, 284, 335, 338-9, 356, 388
exports, Polish 48, 153, 154, 156, 201, 270, 271, 309, 364, 365, 373
Ezofowicz, Abraham 60
Ezofowicz, Michał 60-1
Falanga Party 307
Falimirz, Stefan 99
Familia 190, 191, 192, 196, 199, 205, 251
Feodor I, Tsar 138
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 56
Firlej, Jan 75
Firlej family 75, 119
Flying University, Warsaw 368
Foreign Legion, French 236
foreign policy: Commonwealth 114-17, 164-8; Congress Kingdom 227; Polish Republic 311-12; public opinion affects 89-90; Third Republic 398-404; Vasa kings 114-16
Forge, the 207