Gotthold K.S. Rhode
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LOCATION: Heidesheim 6501, Germany
Emeritus Professor of East European and Russian History, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany; former Director, Institute for East European Research. Author of Kleine Geschichte Polens.
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Casimir IV was the grand duke of Lithuania (1440–92) and king of Poland (1447–92), who, by patient but tenacious policy, sought to preserve the political union between Poland and Lithuania and to recover the lost lands of old Poland. The great triumph of his reign was the final subjugation of the…
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