Lanckorona, Battle of 193
Land Bank 263
Land Credit Society 266, 269
land ownership 48-50, 89, 94, 97, 140, 156, 158, 183, 193, 202, 215, 240, 243-4, 245, 250-1, 261, 263, 264, 266, 269, 272, 298, 308, 316, 317, 333, 340, 344
Land Purchase Bank 264
Langiewicz, Marian 244
Lannes, Marshal Jean 233
Łaski Jan, Archbishop 60, 61, 70
Latvia 20, 21, 389
Law and Justice Party (PiS) 393, 394, 395, 398
Łazewska, Dorota 67
League of Nations 293, 306
League of Polish Families (LPR) 393, 394, 395, 396
Ledóchowski, Bishop Mieczysław 262
legal system: appeal court 89; castellans’ courts 46; codified (1776) 196-7; county courts 46; ecclesiastical courts 46, 67-8, 72, 73; elective courts 46; ’executionist’ movement 71-2, 73;
Legion of the Vistula 222, 224, 225
Lelewel, Joachim 230, 251
Lem, Stanisław 360
Lemberg Assembly 266
Lemberg University 229
Lemkos 343
Lenin, V.I. 285, 294
Leopold II, Emperor of Germany 210, 211
Lepper, Andrzej 390, 393-4, 395, 396
Leszczyński, Rafał 173
Leszczyński, Stanisław
Leszczyński family 63, 128, 160
Leszek ’the White’, Duke of Kraków 15
Leszno 63, 127, 128
literature: Arcadia, search for in 98, 101-2, 253-4; Bible translations 54, 99; Catholic Church promotes 53; Commonwealth 85, 98-104; early Polish 98-9; Enlightenment 197-8; fifteenth-century 52-3; influence of Polish throughout Europe 102; Italian influence upon 53-4, 85; Jesuit influence upon 128; languages, use of
Lithuania xviii, 15, 20, 23, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 54-5, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 69, 75, 76, 78, 79-80, 81, 82, 92, 107, 109, 111, 120, 122, 136, 147, 148, 159-60, 177, 179, 187, 213, 224, 236, 253, 268, 282, 292, 294, 312, 339, 342, 389, 399, 400
Livonia 111, 112, 114, 115, 122, 131, 148, 158, 180
Lloyd George, David 295
Locarno Conference, 1925 311
Lódz 269-70, 271, 287, 318, 357
Louis XIV, King of France 167
Louis XV, King of France 180, 182
Louis d’Anjou, King of Hungary and Poland 35, 86
Louis Jagiellon, King of Hungary and Bohemia 56, 110
Louis, Victor 202
Louis-Philippe, King of the French 234, 237, 256
Louise-Marie, Queen of Poland 146, 152, 162
Łubieński, Konstanty 361
Łubieński, Maciej 144
Lublin 20, 37, 51, 62-3, 65, 67, 80, 104, 155, 177, 182, 292, 309, 327, 332
Lubomirska, Elżbieta 182
Lubomirski, Marshal Jerzy 157, 161, 169
Lubomirski, Marshal Stanisław Herakliusz 104-5, 119, 169-70
Lubomirski, Zdzisław 292
Lubomirski family 104-5, 119, 129, 146, 157, 160
Lubusz 23
Łuck 54, 58, 149
Łukasiewicz, Ignacy 280
Łukasiński, Major Walerian 230
Luksemburg, Róża 284
Lunéville, Treaty of (1801) 220
Luria, Solomon 65
Lusatians 2
Luther, Martin 61, 63, 64, 66, 69, 110, 111
Lutherans 65, 73, 96, 114, 125, 139
Luxembourg dynasty 42
Lwów 51, 53, 71, 92, 93, 142, 148, 155, 158, 185, 237, 239, 266, 273, 278, 289, 292, 294, 305, 309, 315, 342
Maciejewski, Stanisław 70
Mąaczyński, Jan 99
Madaliński, General Józef 213
magnates 12, 128; Confederation of Bar, role in 193, 194; constitution and 109, 146, 129, 186; insurrection (1794) and 215; Jesuits and 129; Krakow Lords 33; land ownership 51, 182-4; monarchy, relationship with 109, 119-20, 146, 148, 157, 162, 181, 193; parliamentary system and 159-60, 162, 186, 196; Patriots 205; peasants and 50; private towns 155, 157; starosties and 72-3; supplement income with lucrative or influential public office 51
Magyars 42
Małachowski, Stanisław 205, 207, 222
Malinowski, Joseph ben Mardoch 65
Małopolska (Lesser Poland) 11, 16, 19, 32, 34, 35, 45, 61, 62, 100, 154, 213
March of Brandenburg 26
Marchlewski, Julian 284
Marchocki, Ścibor 202
Marcinkiewicz, Kazimierz 395, 404
Marcinkowski, Karol 277
Maritime Commission 135
Marshall Aid 350
Marx, Karl 217, 248
Marxism xx, 351, 352, 354, 358
Mary I, Queen of England 70
Matejko, Jan 280
Mątwy, Battle of (1666) 161
Maximilian I of Habsburg, Archduke 110, 113, 114
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 109
Mazarin, Cardinal Jules 146
Mazepa, Ivan 178
Mazovia 16, 20, 21, 26, 30, 43, 45, 61, 62, 67, 71, 92, 154, 158, 307
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz 384, 385, 386, 388, 389
Mazurians 265
Mazzini, Giuseppe 236, 247, 254
Mecklenburg 9, 20
Mehmet IV, Sultan of Turkey 162-3
Melanchthon, Philipp 99
Meller, Stefan 395