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Divin – Chronological Memoirs

2-2: The Union of Lublin, 1569
In 1569, a crucial event:

{19} In 1569, a long-cherished dream of the Poles was fulfilled: Unification

The last Polish king of the Jagiellonian lineage, Sigismund II Augustus, finally united the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia with Poland in this year.

This happened in the Lublin Sejm. The creation a single, inseparable state, called Rzeczpospolita, was announced there. In this land Kiev, Volyn, and Podolia were separated from Lithuania and adjoined to Poland.

The Union of Lublin was a Polish triumph, at least for the time being, but also brought Polish domination to a wider area
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Notes: Sejm: parliament, the traditional Polish representative body. Rzeczpospolita: literally, commonwealth in Polish, used in this context as Republic.

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