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The Slavs gave the first permanent settlement in Poland. However, their arrival date is unknown.
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is established in 1569, due to close ties between the Jagiellon dynasty and the grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is destroyed in 1795 by a series of invasions by neighboring countries.
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There is no independent Polish state in which the government of Poland resides in power.
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The Second Polish Republic was established and existed from 1918 to 1939.
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The Second Polish Republic was destroyed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union by their Invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II.
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The People's Republic of Poland is established after Germany has been forced out of Poland.
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During this time, Poland had its own government, but it was a Soviet satellite state, under USSR control.
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Solidarity, a Polish political group, calls for reform in Poland.
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Currently, Poland is in its third republic, which emerged in the 1990s during Solidarity protests for political reform. It is a democratic country, with a market economy.
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The Piast Dynasty of Christianity was adopted in 966
