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The Slavs
The Slavic people who were the most numerous ethnic group in Europe:
The 'West Slavs' were the Poles, the Czechs and the Slovaks.
The 'East Slavs' consisted of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians.
The 'South Slavs' consisted of Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians Serbs and Slovenians.
In the early Middle Ages Slavs were often used as slaves which is possibly the origin of the generic term 'Slavs'.

Concise History of Poland & its Flag
900's - The Polania tribe became dominant
966 - Duke Mieszko I became Poland's first recorded Christian leader
966 - 1370 The Piast Polish Dynasty
1382 - 1572 The Jagiellonian Dynasty
1572 - 1795 The Royal Republic
1700s - The Three Partitions of Poland - Russia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland amongst themselves
1914-18 World War I - Poles were forced into the Russian, German, and Austrian armies and forced to fight each other
11 November 1918 - Poland becomes independent
23 August 1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact and threaten Poland
1939 - 1945 World War II
1939 1st September Germany invades Poland
1939 17th September Soviet Union invades eastern Poland
1944 The Warsaw Uprising - Poland comes under Soviet control
1980 Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity

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