Poland-Lithuania vs. German Teutonic Order

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From the 13th century onward, as the Polish Kingdom fractionalized, the German Empire charted crusading orders like the Teutonic Order as vassals to Christianize Europe. Invited by Hungarian and Polish authorities (esp. Mazovian dukes) to pacify and Christianize pagan Baltic Prussia, the ethnic Germans instead conquered and created a theocratic realm stretching from Pommerania to Estonia as a semi-vassal of the German Empire ("First Reich"). This became the Teutonic Knights' Monastic State. By the 15th century, as Poland gradually merged with Lithuania and became strong, Slavs and Balts under the Teutonic Order's authority requested aid from Poland-Lithuania to expel the Germans. Thus began the Polish-Teutonic War in 1410 (and the Battle of Grünwald depicted in this film) and the subsequent major 13-Years' War. By the end of these wars, the Teutonic Order had been crushed (but still survived), and Poland-Lithuania gradually became one of Europe's great empires.

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• Polish
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• Teutonic
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• crusaders

[BlogizXIII]

@arturasa Vytautas was commander of Polish-Lithuanian army, but under Jagiello (Jogaila) authority. What i mean is, Vytautas was in charge of battle and he was making decisions, but official leader was Jagiello (Jogaila) coz he was crowned king. Greetings from Lithuania to all polish brothers

[0XCarrierX0]

@JonnyLightning

Belarus in 1920-1939 ??? BELARUS? What?

Germans (Austria-Hungary) created Ukraine in opposition to Poland, during the occupation 1772-1918.

Look at Polish borders before the partitions - 1772...

Of course, Britain, France, Germany and Russia are always against Poland.

[baux85]

@lilmisscleo in Lithuania it was ruthenian language, slavonic, which later developed into nowadays belarusian, ukrainian and rusyn.

[123dggr]

@BlogizXIII polish never was and never will be brothers of lithuanians. Isikalk i galva sau ir kalbek uz save.

Ally with poland was greatest Lithuania mistake:( by the way polsih urgently needed this ally. Its my personal opinion

[ImperialGuard9001]

@kacpigh2 Teutonic Germans win other battles and wars. The fact is both peoples and nations were great. I will be honored to serve under anny of the two or tree in this case.

[ImperialGuard9001]

@skaszy1 They sucessed? There was never a World War betwen Germanic and Slavs many times they actualy coloborate of course hostilies happen but not that gigantic epic struggle that we all hear about that is mainly fantasy look to the god dammend Russians they are the sons of mixture of Germanic Norse and Eastern Slavs!

[ImperialGuard9001]

@0XCarrierX0 Everyone is agaisnt everyone in a certain time period. Friends Enemies and Alliances shift.

[CobaltX07]

Where are the Winged Hussars. Doesn't matter if they weren't actually in this battle, it's a Polish Cavalry charge, Winged Hussars are a prerequisite.

[skaszy1]

You'd think after all these years those Germanic tribes would have learned what happens when you invade the Slavs...

[ChicaWolverina]

Smoke grenades! It was a police action because they had waffins aus gossen distruktion!

[robertRFH]

@kacpigh2 hey misfit fag! ;-) this movie is crap, not only the technique is embarrassing, but also the primitive instincts it appeals to.. but good enough for primitive crap suckers like you ... ;-)

[o0ItsumoUreshii0o]

@SunshineBeloved17 Yay! Yes, I came here because of Hetalia :P