LADISLAUS III, King of Poland

1424–44, king of Poland (1434–44) and, as Uladislaus I, king of Hungary (1440–44), son of Ladislaus II. He led two crusades against the Ottomans; the first (1443) was highly successful, but the second ended with his defeat and death in the battle of Varna. In 1447 his younger brother was elected to succeed him as Casimir IV.

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1.
Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
Book by George J. Lerski; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Poland--History--Dictionaries
...ALEXANDER III ROMANOV..., Tsar of Russia and King of Poland 1881-1894...both in Poland and in Lithuania...coordination of artillery...improved, when King Jan III Sobieski...AUGUST III 1696-1763...Imperial Elector of Saxony and...He became King of Poland in 1733...
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King Ottocar, His Rise and Fall: Tragedy in Five Acts
Book by Franz Grillparzer, Arthur Burkhard; The Register Press, 1962
Subjects: Drama, Ottokar--II--King of Bohemia--1230?-1278--Drama
...me. This new impoverished king Shall not protect a single...short pause. Then the notes of a zither are heard LADY-IN-WAITING...The curtain falls . ACT III Hall in Merenbergs...Richards day. RUDOLPH The King of Cornwall. Yes, there was...
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History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times until the Present Day - Vol. 1
Book by S. M. Dubnow, I. Friedlaender; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1916
Subjects: Jews--Poland, Jews--Soviet Union
...He was styled the "peasant king," and the popular commendation of his efforts in the upbuilding...in the forms Wladislaus and Ladislaus. 2 I. e. "Span-long...Casimir the Great "found a Poland of wood and left behind him...
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Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland - Vol. 2
Book by John Lloyd Stephens; Harper & Brothers, 1838
Subjects: Greece--Description And Travel, Poland--Description And Travel, Soviet Union--Description And Travel, Turkey--Description And Travel
...CHAPTER III. Moscow...The Kremlin. -- Sepulchres of the Czars. -- The great Bell...Travelling. -- Rough Riding. -- Poland. -- Vitepsk. -- Na poleon...Polish Heroine. -- Last Words of a King. -- A Hero in Decay. -- The...
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History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great - Vol. 1
Book by Thomas Carlyle; Harper & Brothers, 1866
Subjects: Frederick--Ii--King Of Prussia--1712-1786, Prussia (Germany)--History
...300 . III. FRIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING 306...VII. TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER 343...displeased the Kaiser and the King of Poland , 379...
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Legends as Life Strategies for Aspirant Saints in the Later Middle Ages
Journal article by Gábor Klaniczay; Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 26, 1989
Subjects: Folklore
...Margarets nephew, King Ladislaus IV (the Cuman), the Central...Polish Elisabeth, wife of the Hungarian Anjou king Charles Robert, governed...her life as regent of Poland. The two thrones of her...Historiae Hungaricae , tom. III (Budapest: Szent Istvan...
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Under the Sign of the Pendulum: Childhood Experience as Determining Revolutionary Consciousness. Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978) (1)
Journal article by Kenneth Mcrobbie; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Autobiographies--Criticism and interpretation, Polanyi, Ilona Duczynska--Criticism and interpretation, Polanyi, Ilona Duczynska--Political activity, Polanyi, Ilona Duczynska--Works, Russian Revolution, 1917-1921--Influence, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Political activity, Women poets--Works
...least partly the work of her grandfather Ladislaus--"a great engineer"--with whom Alfred did...an airship, driven and steered by means of propellers." She claims to have viewed...Alfred presumably regarded as "good": the king ("who is good, the positive hero") and...


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Poland's Cross and America's
Magazine article by L. Brent Bozell; National Review, Vol. 36, June 1, 1984
Subjects: Catholic Church in Poland--Political activity, Freedom of religion--Poland, Poland--Political aspects, Politics--United States, Religion and state--United States, Religion in schools--United States, Religion in the public schools--United States, United States--Political aspects
...looking for a new Christian king. During the interregnum...the Ukraine to central Poland with a wooden painting--an icon--of the Virgin Mary. This man, Prince Ladislaus Opolszyk by name, a Silesian...judicial outrages. Article III, Section 2 provides that...


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Ladislaus III , King of Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LADISLAUS III , king of Poland 1424 44, king of Poland (1434 44) and, as Uladislaus I, king of Hungary (1440 44), son of Ladislaus II. He led two crusades against...
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Ladislaus II , King of Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lithuania to Christianity. The union of Poland and Lithuania continued after he delegated...1410) resulted in the First Peace of Torun in 1411. His son by a later wife, Ladislaus III, succeeded him as Polish king. ____________________ Copyright...
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Ladislaus IV , King of Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LADISLAUS IV , king of Poland 1595 1648, king of Poland...successor of Sigismund III . His reign was marked by...Russians, and the Ottomans. Ladislaus in his later years vainly...Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Ladislaus I , King of Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1333, duke (1306 20) and later king (1320 33) of Poland; called Ladislaus the Short. He restored the Polish...son and successor was Casimir III. ____________________ Copyright...Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All...
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John II , King of Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Casimir), 1609 72, king of Poland (1648 68), son of Sigismund III . He was elected...his brother, Ladislaus IV. The turbulent...abused. The king and his French...Gonzague (widow of Ladislaus IV), were childless...that of John III...
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