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Stanislaus I

(Encyclopedia)Stanislaus I, 1677–1766, king of Poland (1704–1709, 1733–35) and duke of Lorraine (1735–66). He was born Stanislaus Leszczynski. Early in the Northern War (1700–1721), Charles XII of Sweden ...

Frederick Augustus I, 1670–1733, elector of Saxony

(Encyclopedia)Frederick Augustus I, elector of Saxony: see Augustus II, king of Poland. ...

Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony

(Encyclopedia)Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony: see Augustus III, king of Poland. ...

Uladislaus I

(Encyclopedia)Uladislaus I, king of Hungary: see Ladislaus III, king of Poland. ...

Laski, John

(Encyclopedia)Laski, John yän lăsˈkē [key], Latin Johannes Alasco, 1499–1560, Polish Protestant reformer. A learned priest, he went in 1523 to Basel, where he was a close friend of Erasmus. After returning to...

Komorowski, Bronisław

(Encyclopedia)Komorowski, Bronisław, 1952–, Polish political leader, grad. Warsaw Univ. (1977). In his youth he joined the prodemocracy movement and was arrested several times; he was interned briefly in the ear...

Socinus, Faustus

(Encyclopedia)Socinus, Faustus fouˈstō sōt-tsēˈnē [key], 1539–1604, Italian religious reformer, founder of Socinianism. Socinus left the Roman Catholic Church when, influenced by the writings of his uncle, ...

Petlyura, Simon

(Encyclopedia)Petlyura, Simon sĭmyōnˈ pyətlyo͞oˈrə [key], 1879–1926, Ukrainian nationalist politician. In Jan., 1919, he became leader of the independent Ukrainian republic that emerged after the collapse ...

Walewski, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Comte

(Encyclopedia)Walewski, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Comte älĕksäNˈdrə flôryäNˈ zhôzĕfˈ kôlônäˈ kôNt välĕfskēˈ [key], 1810–68, French diplomat, b. Poland; illegitimate son of Maria Walews...

Lviv

(Encyclopedia)Lviv ləvēˈo͞o, ləvēfˈ [key], Rus. Lvov, Pol. Lwów, Ger. Lemberg, city (1989 pop. 791,000), capital of Lviv region, W Ukraine, at the watershed of the Western Bug and Dniester rivers and in the...