THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL AND CONFESSIONAL MINORITIES IN THE HISTORY OF OLD POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH (1569–1795)

Rok Bogdan

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The article is devoted to the problem of interrelations of people who are the representatives of different nationalities and religions on the territory of the old Commonwealth in the 16th – 18th centuries. As a result of emerged situation during almost five centuries of the old Polish-Lithuanian state history no one nation of the Commonwealth has lost its historical and national consciousness besides the polonisation of many representatives of these nations.

Keywords: commonwealth, interrelations, national minority, confessional minority, settled nations, scattered nations

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Issue: 3, 2012

Pages: 70 — 75

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