History / How Vanya won the Battle of Grunwald. [18]

The only reliable source of information about battle of Grunwald is Annales seu cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae of Jan Długosz. One part of Annales... descibes the battle. Długosz has collected memoires of knights who survived that war. Długosz writes about troops from Smolensk and Novgorod, which were only support of main forces and were outnumbered during firht. By the way - Novgorod was independent republic, destroyed by Moscow in 1478. After antirussian rising tzar Ivan IV captured Novgorod and exterminated about 50 000 citizens.

Republic of Novgorod was since 1389 the fief of Polish Kingdom and since 1470 the part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

So troops from Smolensk and Novgorod in 1410 were in fact one of parts of one Polish army.

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Polonia / Are there any Polish people in Korea? [6]

my femal cousin married last year a Korean guy from Seul. His parents and othe family came to Poland for wedding (they are catholics too), but they live now in Seul because of military service, that Justin (her husband) has to do yet.

His sister was in Poland too - ach... one of most beautyful women i ever seen in my life... :-)

But my femal cousin... i will try to find some contact with her and will give you information, ok?
have a nice time :-)))

Polonia / I'd like to go to Mexico... [47]

Muchas gracias para tu respuesta, companiero :-)
Eres un Mexicano? Una vez tengo que visitar tu patria (creo que) muy bonita :-)

Muchas gracias para tu respuesta, companiero :-)
Eres un Mexicano? Una vez tengo que visitar tu patria (creo que) muy bonita :-)

Genealogy / is KUBIAK a common name in Poland [13]

Kubiak is very popular in Poland.
The Name "Kubiak" came from surname Kuba (average form of Jakub in old times), propably used since XII century, and means just "Kuba's son".

History / POLAND BEFORE 966 [27]

The first "slavic" ceramic and slavic artifacts (of so called "Prague-Style") are dated about VI-VII century. And the first ancient authors write about "slavic" tribes in VII century too. The word "Slaves" is the question at all, because slavonic nations were called Ants (eastern Slaves) and Sklavens (western Slaves) at the beginning.

The full reconstruction of migrations of Slaves is mipossible, because of very poor number of ancient documents.
I'm a profesional archeologist and today no one want to discuse about the origin of Slaves. But the first tribal countries we have here in VII/VIII century. Adam of Bremen bescribed the organisation of slavonic triebes, called them all and bescribed their strange (based on number of fortresses of each tribe).

Life / Black people in Poland [357]

Black soldiers in Polish army :): poloniatoday.com/blacksons0404.htm

Love / Are you in a Polish-nonPolish relationship? [150]


Great to hear :) My friend's name is Aleksandrowicz and it's Tatarian too. 50% of Polish Tatars converted to Catholic Church specially in late XVII century. They were so brave, that king Jan Kazimierz nolbilited many Tatarian families.

Tatars were very respected specialy by king Jan Sobieski.
First wave of Tatars came to Poland in XIII, but the stabil colonisation we have since 1409. Tatars (under chief Gelal ed Din) helped us to fight against Teutonic Orden. Under Grunwald (15 VIII 1410) they reided first to fight, what saved Polish haevy cavalry from German artyllery. Tatars asimilated very fast. In one Tatarian letter to king Zygmunt I Waza from 1519. we are reading: "We promissed to love you, we did with sabels in our hands..., ...you said: this sand, this water, this trees belong to us too..., ... in Crymea and Kipchak (=Tatarian homeland) they know very well - we are not strangers here..".

There was always 6 Tatarian "Banners" (=regiment) in Polish army. Every tribe had it's own regiment. They served as cavalrymen, had to buy their own horses and weapon, but were free from taxes. It was normal in XVII c.

Fighting for Poland they fought against Russians, Swedes, Germans and... other Tatars.
One time Tatars from Ukraine, who assulted Poland tried to convince our Tatars to join them. Polish Tatars answered: " Not the God, nor the Prophet ordered you to mord and plunder. Killing you - we are killing morders, not our brothers".

In the battle at Parkany (agains Turkey) one of Tatarian colonels, Samuel Mur Keczowski, saved the life of king Jan III Sobieski.

Love / Are you in a Polish-nonPolish relationship? [150]


We have muslim minority, about 25 000 Polish Tatars, since XIV century. and there was no any religious or ethnic conflicts. Specialy in XVII century Tatars were very respected, and many families were nobeled by our kings. The reason was simple. XVII century was the period of wars in Poland, specially against Turkey. Tatars were muslims, but they were Polish citizens and patriots too. So they fought to protect Poland from other muslims. After 1990 many people from caucasian former Soviet repablics (specialy Chechens) are coming to Poland, so there is more muslims, but the main-imam of Poland is Tatar.