. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. POLAND. 243 successors soon lost most of his conquests, but a century later Bolislas III. evan- gelized the Pomorianians (Pomeranians), who, cut off by the impassable marshes of the Netze, had long formed a world apart grouped round "Wollin, or Vineta. Still the internal dissensions of the Slavs and the " Germanisation " of a great part of their domain prevented Poland from retaining her western conquests. Towards the end of the thirteenth century the kingdom had lost half of the original Polish lands in the Oder basin. By invitatio
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. POLAND. 243 successors soon lost most of his conquests, but a century later Bolislas III. evan- gelized the Pomorianians (Pomeranians), who, cut off by the impassable marshes of the Netze, had long formed a world apart grouped round "Wollin, or Vineta. Still the internal dissensions of the Slavs and the " Germanisation " of a great part of their domain prevented Poland from retaining her western conquests. Towards the end of the thirteenth century the kingdom had lost half of the original Polish lands in the Oder basin. By invitation the Duke of Mazovia and the Teutonic Knights established themselves in the Prusso-Lithuanian lands on the Baltic, Fig. 116.—Shifting of the Polish State East and West. According to Dragomanov. Scale 1 : 20,000, E Of G. Dini n Limits of the Terntory Kinprdom Western Slavs, actually of Tenth Century. occu))ied by Bolislas I. Poles. Conquests of Bolislas III. Prussia Vassal of Poland. Livonia first Polish, then Swedish. Polish Livonia and Kurland. Cf Present Kingdom. 200 Miles. whence they commanded the Niémen and Vistula basins. Thus began one of the political elements destined one day to share in the fall of Poland. After the definite renunciation of Polish Silesia by Casimir the Great in the middle of the fourteenth century, the state seems to have turned its attention entirely towards the east. Through the spread of Christianity and the marriage of the Polish queen with the pagan Prince Jagello, Lithuania was annexed, and the whole of Western Russia thrown open. Even in the seventeenth century Sigismund III. could still aspire to become monarch of all East and North Europe. Claiming at once the throne of Sweden and Poland, he also aimed at the sove- reignty of Muscovy. Under Sobieski the Polish nation, brave and heroic above all others, seemed to have definitely become the champion of the West against the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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