United States 249, 263, 267, 291, 325, 330, 356, 402, 404
universities 32, 96, 97, 100-1, 103, 127-8, 197, 203, 229, 230, 235, 252, 306, 309, 358, 359, 361
University of Lwów 306
University of Padua 96, 97, 100, 101, 103
University of Warsaw 203, 235, 309, 361
University of Wilno 229, 230, 235, 252
University of Zamość 97, 127
Urban, Jerzy 391
Uzbekistan 324
Vaclav II, King of Bohemia and Poland 26
Varna, Battle of (1444) 42, 55, 56
Vasily III, Tsar 111
Vatican 111, 236;
Venice, Republic of 52
Verdum 172
Versailles settlement (1918) 311
Vienna 135, 168, 225, 239
Vikings 1, 2
Vislanie 2
Vistula river 2, 5, 14, 31, 47-8, 64, 194, 196, 200, 210, 220, 245-6, 315, 328, 329
Volhynia 236, 295, 341, 399, 400
Voltaire 65, 180, 197
Vyšehrad group 401
Vytautas, Grand Duke 38, 40
Wajda, Andrzej 360, 407
Wałęsa, Lech 371, 372, 375, 378, 380, 381, 384, 388-9, 390, 391, 392, 393, 400, 403
Walentynowicz, Anna 371
War of the Polish Succession 180
War of the Spanish Succession 179
Warmia (Ermland) 39, 61, 103, 198
Warsaw 107, 117, 143, 146, 186; Academy of Arts 203; Academy of Sciences 203; architecture 52, 202, 230; arts in 278, 310; Battle of (1656) 149; Castle 163, 166; Cathedral 109; City Committee 242, 243, 321; civic buildings 202; Duchy of 221-2, 224, 229; fall of (1939) 320; French Revolution, effect of within 210; ghettos 318, 324; industry in 270; Insurrect ion (1794) 213; Jews in 306, 318, 324; library, public reference 190; metallurgical industry 271; musical centre 202; Patriotic Society 230, 251; Polytechnic 235; population numbers 155, 201; Red Army in 295; Royal Mint 200; Stanisław Augustus abducted in 193; theatres in 278; Treaty of 179-80; University 203, 235, 309, 361; World War II 315
Warsaw Main School 275, 279
Warsaw Pact 355, 384, 389
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 353
Warsaw Uprising (1945) 330-2, 373, 403
Warta river 200
Waryński, Ludwik 284
Wawrzecki, Tomasz 216
Wehrmacht 313, 316, 318, 326
West Germany 355
Western Gubernias 274, 285, 305
White Mountain, Battle of the (1620) 115
Wieliczka 31
Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) 11, 16, 19, 27, 31, 43, 45, 62, 92, 100, 120, 147, 154, 158, 183, 212, 215, 260
Wielopolski, Aleksander 241, 243
Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany 264
Wilhelm of Habsburg 37, 39
Willis, Nathan Parker 234
Wilno 55, 58, 60, 104, 111, 125, 127, 128, 138, 155, 160, 177, 197, 214, 224, 228, 229, 230, 235, 252, 282, 286, 292, 296, 309, 327
Wilson, President Woodrow 291
Wincenty of Kielce 27
Wiśniowiecki, Prince Jarema Michał 138, 140, 162
Wiśniowiecki, Prince Konstanty 121, 144, 145
Wiśniowiecki, Michał Korybut 162, 163
Witos, Wincenty 298, 299, 300, 302
Władysław I, ’the Short’, King of Poland 28, 29, 30, 43, 310
Władysław, Herman, Prince of Poland 12
Władysław II Jagiello, King of Poland 37, 38, 39-40, 42, 44, 54-5, 190
Władysław III, King of Poland and Hungary 42, 44, 56
Władysław IV (Vasa), King of Poland 116, 123, 124, 131, 136, 142, 143, 144, 146, 152, 156, 166
Władysław, Duke of Wielkopolska 12, 14, 16
Władysław, King of Bohemia and Hungary 42, 110
Włodkowic, Paweł 40, 85-6
Wojciechowski, President Stanisław 299, 300
Wola, Warsaw 83
Wolski, Piotr 109
Worcell, Stanisław 252
Workers’ Defence Committee (KOR) 367-8, 371, 397
Workers’ Union 288
World Bank 404
World War I xx, 289-93, 308
World War II xvii, 313, 314-32, 338-44, 373, 375, 399
Writers’ Union 352
Wróblewski, Zygmunt 280
Wrocław 5, 12, 14, 26
Wujek mine, Silesia 376
Wybicki, Józef 197, 206, 219, 220
Wycliffe, John 40
Wyhowski, Jan 149
Wyszyński, Cardinal Stefan 347, 357, 368
Yalta Conference (1945) 332, 402
Yaqub, Ibrahim Ibn 3
Yegorov, Aleksandr 295
Young Italy 236
Yushchenko, Viktor 403
Zajączek, General Józef 220, 227
Załuski, Bishop Andrzej 189-90
Załuski, Józef 190
Zamość 96-8, 127, 148
Zamoyski, Andrzej 240, 241, 242-3
Zamoyski, Andrzej, Chancellor 196, 197, 201-2
Zamoyski, Jan 83, 97, 98, 109, 112, 113, 114, 117, 138, 192
Zamoyski, Stanisław 229
Zamoyski, Tomasz 105
Zamoyski family 83, 97, 98, 109, 112, 113, 114, 117, 138, 160
Zaolzie 312
Zapolska, Gabriela 278
Zaporozhian Army 140, 141-2, 144
Zbaraski, Prince Krzysztof 138, 152
Zborów, Battle of (1649) 145
Zborowski, Hetman Jan 108
Zebrzydowski, Mikołaj 117, 129, 161
Żegota 322
Żeromski, Stefan 280
Zevi, Shabbetai 185
Złotoryia 19
zloty 377, 405
Żółkiew 98
Żółkiewski, Field-Hetman Stanisław 117, 118, 123, 132, 134, 142, 163
Żółkiewski family 98
ZOMO (Motorised Units of the Citizens’ Militia) 365, 374, 376
ZSL (United People’s Party) 336
Zygmunt I, ’the Old’, King of Poland 57, 66, 68, 79, 89, 96, 110, 111
Zygmunt II Augustus, King of Poland 60, 68-9, 70, 76, 78, 79, 82, 97, 99, 106, 113, 135
Zygmunt III (Vasa), King of Poland 112-19, 121, 122, 123-4, 128, 131, 135, 136, 156, 165, 166
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