The origins of Poland.
Publisher: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Poland -- History -- To 960.
Description: 311 p.; 4 maps in back insert; 19 cm; bibliographical notes (p. 265-300); index
Notes: Copyright 1966 by Witold Dzięcioł: London, November 1966.
Table of contents: class: section
title: Preface … 7; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 1. The ethnogenesis of Poland … 11; class: section
title: 2. The formation of Europe … 48; class: section
title: 3. The Proto-Polish period in the history of Poland c. 650-966 … 86; class: section
title: 4. The rise of Poland 966-1000 … 120; class: section
title: 5. The Christianization of Poland … 161; class: section
title: 6. The House of Piast … 202; class: section
title: 7. Poland’s role in the formation of Europe … 230; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Bibliographical notes … 265; class: section
title: – Chapter 1 … 265; class: section
title: – Chapter 2 … 270; class: section
title: – Chapter 3 … 275; class: section
title: – Chapter 4 … 281; class: section
title: – Chapter 5 … 286; class: section
title: – Chapter 6 … 291; class: section
title: – Chapter 7 … 295; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Index … 301; class: section
title: Contents … 311; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Maps (in back pocket):; class: section
title: 1. Venedic (Slavic) culture in two variations about the time of Jesus Christ.  Based on archaeological data of pit graves according to J. Kostrzewski and others. Corroborative written sources:  Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Ptolemy of Alexandria and Jordanes.; class: section
title: 2. Proto-Polish Vistulan state at the eve of the Moravian conquest, c. 880 AD. The probable borders reconstructed on the basis of Vita Metodii, King Alfred the Great’s Chorography, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Cosmas Pragensis and Al-Masudi; class: section
title: 3. Proto-Polish Polanian state at the eve of the rise of Poland, 955-966.  The most probable borders reconstructed on the basis of testimonies of Ibrahim ibn Jakub, Widukind of Corvey, Hasdai of Cordova, and Nestor of Kiev; class: section
title: 4. Early Poland, 966-1000. The political borders reconstructed on the basis of Dagome Iudex, Thietmar of Merseburg, Nestor of Kiev, Vitae S. Adalberti, and early Polish chronicles.