The fact that Poland and Lithuania merged voluntarily and fraternally was of vital importance, as evidenced by the Manifestation of the Unity of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Horodło. Although held in 1861, as Poland was under partitions at that time, the gathering was attended by 10,000 participants from all over the country. The Polish-Lithuanian union was a relationship created by a series of acts and alliances between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that lasted for prolonged periods of time from 1385 and led to the creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or the "Republic of the Two Nations", in 1569 and eventually to the In 1569, by the Union of Lublin, the dynastic link between Poland and Lithuania was transformed into a constitutional union of the two states as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the same time, the greater part of the Ukrainian territories was detached from Lithuania and annexed directly to Poland. Polish-Lithuanian War The Polish-Lithuanian War (in Polish historiography, Polish-Lithuanian Conflict [6] [7]) was an undeclared war between newly independent Lithuania and Poland following World War I, which happened mainly, but not only, in the Vilnius and Suwałki regions. The war is viewed differently by the respective sides. 'Lithuania, my country!' - these words were written by Adam Mickiewicz, a Polish poet and independence activist, in the first half of the 19th century to refer to his homeland. While today, despite much political turmoil and after many years, similar exclamations can still be heard from the 200,000 or so Poles living in Lithuania. Union of Lublin, (1569), pact between Poland and Lithuania that united the two countries into a single state. After 1385 (in the Union of Krewo) the two countries had been under the same sovereign. But Sigismund II Augustus had no heirs; and the Poles, fearing that when he died the personal union. Drs1.

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