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 (ca.); Poland -- History -- 960 (ca.)-1773
Description: 311 p.; 4 maps in back insert; 19 cm; bibliographical notes (p. 265-300); index
Notes: "Bibliographical notes": p. 265-300.
4 maps as insert.
Copyright 1966 by Witold Dzięcioł: London, November 1966.
Table of contents: title: Preface … 7; title: ◦; title: 1. The ethnogenesis of Poland … 11; title: 2. The formation of Europe … 48; title: 3. The Proto-Polish period in the history of Poland c. 650-966 … 86; title: 4. The rise of Poland 966-1000 … 120; title: 5. The Christianization of Poland … 161; title: 6. The House of Piast … 202; title: 7. Poland’s role in the formation of Europe … 230; title: ◦; title: Bibliographical notes … 265; title: – Chapter 1 … 265; title: – Chapter 2 … 270; title: – Chapter 3 … 275; title: – Chapter 4 … 281; title: – Chapter 5 … 286; title: – Chapter 6 … 291; title: – Chapter 7 … 295; title: ◦; title: Index … 301; title: Contents … 311; title: ◦; title: Maps (in back pocket):; 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.; 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; 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; 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.