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Feb 17, 2020 · We wrap up our time with King Casimir the Great by talking about his final years as King, what made him “the Great,” and the Congress of Kraków. Support the ...
Mar 7, 2017 · © KADR Film Studio http://sfkadr.com/en/movies/230/casimir-the-great.htmlDirector: Ewa i Czesław PetelscyProduction year: 1976
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Jul 9, 2013 · King Casimir III, the only Polish king to earn the subsequent title of "the Great," reigned during the 14th Century AD and established himself as a decisive and able ruler, relying on his...
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Casimir III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, and fought to retain the title in the Galicia-Volhynia Wars. He was the last Polish king from the Piast dynasty.
Casimir III (born April 30, 1310, Kujawy, Poland—died November 5, 1370) was the king of Poland from 1333 to 1370, called “the Great” because he was deemed a peaceful ruler, a “peasant king,” and a skillful diplomat. Through astute diplomacy he annexed lands from western Russia and eastern Germany.
Jul 10, 2011 · Introduction: Casimir, “the only king the Poles call Great,” was born in 1310 in Krakow, the chief city of Lesser Poland, and was crowned king at Krakow in 1333. We know very little about his early life.
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King Casimir III of Poland (1310-1370) made major contributions to the growth of the Polish state as it is known today. Poland's growth under his peaceful reign was memorialized in a popular saying to the effect that he inherited a Poland built of wood, but left the world a Poland built of stone.
