Polish-Lithuanian

English Etymology en Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Adjective - en historical en the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 5 November 1993 Judith Ingram Moscow Journal; For the Faithful, a Resurrection on Red Square https://web.archive.org/web/20230110040045/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/05/world/moscow-journal-for-the-faithful-a-resurrection-on-red-square.html The cathedral was built between 1625 and 1636 to commemorate the liberation of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian nobles who overran Russia in the era known as the Time of Troubles. 25 May 2011 w:Dan Bilefsky In Jam on Van Wyck? Try to Say It Right https://web.archive.org/web/20110528054808/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/nyregion/van-wyck-expressway-also-snarls-pronunciation.html Tom Kaminski, managing editor of traffic and transit information at WCBS-AM (880), said that in the pantheon of mispronounced New York landmarks, Van Wyck was neck-and-neck with the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Queens and Brooklyn and was named in the 1940s for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian hero of the Revolutionary War. 20 November 2012 Ellen Barry Putin, in Need of Cohesion, Pushes Patriotism https://web.archive.org/web/20121121144449/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/world/europe/vladimir-putin-pushes-patriotism-in-russia.html?pagewanted=2 That theme was reprised this month, on the 400th anniversary of the uprising that expelled a Polish-Lithuanian occupation, ending what Russians call the “time of troubles.” 5 November 2014 w:Neil MacFarquhar; Andrew Roth On Unity Day, Putin Divides Nationalists https://web.archive.org/web/20150106110645/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/world/europe/on-unity-day-putin-divides-nationalists.html Russian nationalists marched on Tuesday in Moscow to commemorate Unity Day, which celebrates a victory over Polish-Lithuanian forces in 1612. 4 November 2022 Andrew E. Kramer Russia Sends Ill-Trained Draftees Into Combat Amid Losses, Analysts Say https://web.archive.org/web/20221104221206/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/world/europe/russia-ukraine-conscripts-combat.html He was marking Unity Day, a national holiday that commemorates an uprising that expelled Polish-Lithuanian occupiers from Moscow in 1612. Noun en historical en the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. en 19 December 1996 nikst@glasnet.ru Patrick Armstrong Russian history soc.culture.russian.moderated https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.russian.moderated/c/nMoUyR6RGJM/m/K_ZCIoV37v8J 25 December 1996 Several things could be said about this. The first is that Russia is unusual in one thing -- it has been both a prey state and a predator state in its thousand years. It spent half this time as the target of everyone -- steppe peoples (Polovtsians et al), Mongols, Polish-Lithuanians, Swedes, Teutonic knights. en 25 August 2001 fatso A reminder... soc.culture.baltics https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.baltics/c/c1KGJq_q0TU/m/W-sJ1p6-q5sJ No surprise, when walking the streets of a central Wilno today, you can see only a stature to some unknown folk poetess, the only thing culturally native Lithuania had to offer, the rest of famous ones are polish-lithuanians. en 6 January 2004 Art " Starship Troopers " ? alt.politics https://groups.google.com/g/alt.politics/c/y8xUclBjxbI/m/UsbvpO2V0tQJ > In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, only the szlachta (gentry) could> vote. The szlachta were also required to answer calls to arms (the> "levee en masse"). This was not unique to Polish-Lithuanians; but it seems they were somewhat ahead of their time. Interesting. en History of Poland