poland

So I was reading this article, and this section got me thinking: So let's assume that the uprising can somehow be organized a week sooner than it was in otl, kicking off in the last week of July, with Bagration still chugging along at full speed and the Germans frantically pulling back. Now...

Otl, when german chancellor Adolf Hitler remilitarized the Rhine, France an Britain were unsure how to act. France, scared of a resurgent germany wanted war. Britain, however, was more hesitant, given France's political instability and their own desire to returned to splendid isolation...

Don't confuse Konrad II with his infamous grandfather and namesake-it was Konrad I who brought Teutonic Order to his lands. Konrad II was Duke of Czersk and ruled eastern part of Mazovia, when his brother Bolesław II ruled duchy of Płock in western part of Mazovia. Konrad II had no sons, thus...

I've been looking up on the intentions of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia respectively in regards to the Polish question during WWI, and it sparked some curiosity in me about the possibility of a Polish monarchy. Obviously, had either of these three empires "liberated" Poland from their...

Przemysł II, Duke of Pomerania and Greater Poland and later King of Poland, was last male from Piast line of Greater Poland. He left only one legitimate child, daughter Elizabeth Richeza, born in 1288, later Queen of Poland and Bohemia as wife of Wenceslaus II. Say that Przemysł's only child...

If the Brusilov offensive had been more successful at pushing the Germans out of Poland, could this have led to huge massacres of Polish Jews (worse than prior Tsarist pogroms), with the Poles eagerly helping because they had been convinced by Tsarist propaganda that the Jews had collaborated...

So during Middle Ages there was a Slavic political entity known as a kingdom of Poland in Eastern Europe. It was founded by Mieszko I and dissolved during the rule of William I Habsburg (married to Hedwig d'Anjou), who lost control over northern parts of country (Greater Poland, Cuyavia) which...

After death Queen Anna of Cili in 1416, Vladislaus Jogaila was looking for third wife. Two main candidates were Elizabeth of Luxembourg, proposed by her uncle Sigismund, and Maria Vasilievna, daughter of Vasili I of Moscow and Sophia of Lithuania-she was proposed by her grandfather Vytautas...

My challenge for you is to create a timeline in which Poland isn't partitioned or gets liberated in the 19th century while a United Germany and Austria still exist. I'm having trouble with this cause no partitions of Poland implies a weak Prussia, thus keeping Austrian dominance over German...

Stalin hated poles a lot, but to have two buffer states between the USSR and the west he pushed poland west and annexed their eastern lands. Let's say that he did something different, he let east germany to be the buffer state and annexed poland as a SSR, as the map below shows. Is that...

Hello all. This is a bit of a poll. I am penning an alternate history series that begins in the Crimean War and centers around the World Wars. The question I am asking of you is this: Between Poland and the Soviet Union in 1937, which is most likely to win? Will the war be long or short? Let me...

Slavs are often viewed by Westerners as barbaric, Asian-like savages. There are various causes of presence of this idea like - Mongol overlordship over signifcant amount of Slavs, considerable amount of Slavic countries being not as developed as (narrowly defined) "West" (France, England...

Here is the thread for timeline I started doing Infoboxes and Maps for in other threads. I assumed it would be a good idea to make a thread for it since there is some of that stuff already, and as I am not that great in all fields I would have to cover and as I don't really want to abandon it I...

Would it be possible for the Cold War disputes in Europe to result in a sort of division in which Germany (probably united under a single administration ITTL) joins a formal geopolitical alliance with the Soviet Union and her allies while Poland becomes an ally of NATO and the west, in a sort of...

How could Poland be kept as a place of safety and tolerance for the Jews?

Sarmatism was widespread myth among Polish nobility. It's main theme was belief (proven false) that Poles come from ancient Iranian-speaking nomads called Sarmatians (mistaken for Slavs) and that Golden Liberty was ancient Sarmatian tradition. However, there was another version of origins of...

In thinking about ideas for a possible entry into Map of the Fortnight 204 I ended up not making, I learned that Romania had offered military assistance to Poland when the Germans invaded, citing its alliance with Poland. What if Poland accepted military support from Romania in 1939? Does it...

So I'm guessing the Mongols would be the easiest way to get there, but how would you successfully spread and maintain a Buddhist population in Poland, let alone a Buddhist state? I would love to hear about a Buddhist Polish state surviving at least 100 years.

How can Poland survive partitions? They don't need to be very big, but just surviving somewhere while still calling themselves Poland. I was thinking maybe a bigger Free City of Krakow being an Austrian puppet state, but I'm not sure if Prussia/Russia would allow it and if Austria would allow it...

If we believe Długosz's chronicle, at the beginning of Polish statehood a rebel of supposed peasant ancestry named Piast tried to topple Popiel II, one of the early Polish dukes who managed to establish his rule over Polands. He is ancestor of famed House of Popiel, which ruled Poland in direct...