Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period

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European great power early modern state historical polity multiethnic commonwealth

Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period was a vast multiethnic commonwealth in Eastern Europe that became a major political power and a principal cultural, religious, and demographic center of Ashkenazi Jewry.

Statements (71)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	European great power → early modern state → historical polity → multiethnic commonwealth →
borders	Crimean Khanate → Habsburg Monarchy → Holy Roman Empire → Kingdom of Sweden → Ottoman Empire → Tsardom of Russia →
continent	Europe →
endTime	late 18th century →
formedByUnionOf	Grand Duchy of Lithuania → Kingdom of Poland →
hasCapital	Kraków → Warsaw →
hasCulturalFeature	religious pluralism relative to contemporaries →
hasDemographicFeature	largest Jewish population in Europe →
hasEconomicActivity	grain export via Baltic ports →
hasEconomicSystem	manorial economy → serfdom-based agriculture →
hasGovernmentalPrinciple	Golden Liberty →
hasInstitution	liberum veto in the Sejm →
hasJewishInstitution	Council of Four Lands → Va’ad Medinat Lita (Council of the Land of Lithuania) →
hasLegalDocument	Warsaw Confederation (1573) guaranteeing religious freedoms →
hasLegalStatusForNobility	extensive political rights →
hasLegislature	Sejm →
hasMajorEthnicGroup	Armenians → Germans → Jews → Lithuanians → Poles → Ruthenians (Ukrainians and Belarusians) → Tatars →
hasMajorLanguage	German → Hebrew → Lithuanian → Polish → Ruthenian (Old Belarusian / Old Ukrainian) → Yiddish →
hasMajorReligion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Judaism → Protestantism → Roman Catholicism →
hasNobilityClass	szlachta →
hasNotableRuler	John III Sobieski → Sigismund I the Old → Sigismund II Augustus → Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski → Stephen Báthory →
hasOfficialLanguage	Latin → Polish → Ruthenian (Chancery Slavonic) →
hasPoliticalSystem	elective monarchy → nobles’ republic →
hasRulerTitle	King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania →
isMajorCenterOf	Ashkenazi Jewry → Jewish religious scholarship → Yiddish culture →
locatedIn	Central Europe → Eastern Europe →
partOf	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth →
significantEvent	Battle of Vienna (1683) → Deluge (Swedish and Russian invasions, mid-17th century) → Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1657) → Partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795) → Union of Lublin (1569) → Wars with the Ottoman Empire →
startTime	late 15th century →
timePeriod	early modern period →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jewish diaspora →	hasCenter