Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm (Polish: Sejm Wielki or Sejm Czteroletni; Lithuanian: Didysis seimas or Ketverių metų seimas) was a Sejm...
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The Sejm (English: /seɪm/, Polish: [sɛjm] ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the lower...
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The General Sejm (Polish: sejm walny, Latin: comitia generalia) was the bicameral legislature of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was established...
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Confederated sejm (Polish: sejm skonfederowany) was a form of sejm in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century. After 1764, sejms were frequently...
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Michał Kleofas Ogiński (section Great Sejm)
adviser to King Stanisław August Poniatowski and supported him during the Great Sejm of 1788–1792. In 1788 he received the Order of Saint Stanislaus and in...
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Hugo Kołłątaj (section Reforms of the Great Sejm)
enemies as "Kołłątaj's Forge". As leader of the Patriotic Party during the Great Sejm, he set out its programme in his Several Anonymous Letters to Stanisław...
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Look up sejm or Sejm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish pronunciation: [ˈsɛjm] ; Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej...
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Silent Sejm (Polish: Sejm Niemy; Lithuanian: Nebylusis seimas), also known as the Mute Sejm, is the name given to the session of the Sejm parliament of...
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Stanisław August Poniatowski (category Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
future empress Catherine the Great. With her aid, he was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania by the Sejm in September 1764 following the...
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Constitution of 3 May 1791 (category Great Sejm)
written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted by the Great Sejm that met between 1788 and 1792. The Commonwealth was a dual monarchy comprising...
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