The nations of the old Polish Commonwealth woke and challenged the Polish gentry within those lands as much as they challenged the alien rule of the three empires. Pilsudski became not just a ...

History has often intertwined the fates of Poland and Belarus. Many monuments dating back to the times when the two countries were joined as one state under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have ...

A white eagle on a red background was also present on heraldic flags. The symbol of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a red-white-red banner, with a majestic coat of arms at the centre, divided ...