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=={{I|Slavs}} Ancient Times {{I|Polans}}==
Polish territory was firstly considered inhabited by the Civitas Schinesghe, a West Slavic tribe, in the ninth century. Its story is covered under a thick layer of mystery and legends.
It is known that around 920 AD, {{I|Polans}} Goplansball subordinated to it.
Taking advantage fall of the {{I|Great Moravia}} [[Great Moraviaball]] decided to expand, increasing its territory three times, and began to build strongholds Later, the {{I|Polans}} Goplansball arrived and inhabited modern {{I|Kuyavia-Pomerania}} [[Kuyavia-Pomeraniaball]]. It is known that around 920 AD, {{I|Polans}} Goplansball subordinated to the Polansball. Taking advantage of the fall of the {{I|Great Moravia}} [[Great Moraviaball]], the {{I|Polans}} Polansball decided to expand, increasing its territory three times, and began to build strongholds.

=={{I|Kingdom of Poland}} The Kingdom of Poland {{I|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}}{{I|Kievan Rus}}{{I|Teutonic}}{{I|Novgorod Republic}} (960-1569)==
By the 10th Century, Polandball began to unify into a distinct political state under the Piast Dynastyball. The first Polish ruler, Mieszko I, adopted {{I|Papal States}} Catholicism as the state religion, replacing {{I|Slavic Paganism}} Slavic Pagan tradition in 966.

In 1025 AD, the {{I|First Kingdom of Poland}} [[Duchy of Polandball]] was crowned as {{I|First Kingdom of Poland}} [[Kingdom of Polandball]].<br>
In 1038 AD, it was raided by {{I|Duchy of Bohemia}} [[Duchy of Bohemiaball]], who robbed it terribly and almost beat it to death.<br>
In 1040 AD, it allied with {{I|Kievan Rus}} [[Kievan Rusball|Kyivan Rusball]] against Mazovia and then began to reclaim their lands.<br>
{{I|First Kingdom of Poland}} Kingdom of Polandball quarreled with {{I|Kievan Rus}} [[Kievan Rusball]], then joined Red Rusball to itself in the year 1077.<br>
In 1117 AD he began military operations, starting with the raid on Old Russiaball, in order to secure the area, and regained Gdańsk and Pomeraniaball.

With the testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth enacted in 1138, the kingdom was split into 5 principalities within his 4 sons.
From the 12th to the 14th century, {{I|Kingdom of Poland}} First Kingdom of Polandball was in a long period of fragmentation (1138–ca. 1320. During the fragmentation, {{I|Duchy of Poland}} First Kingdom of Polandball lost {{I|Lower Silesia}} [[Duchy of Silesiaball|Silesiaball]] and {{I|Pomerania}} [[Pomereliaball|Pomeraniaball]]. After the re-unitary {{I|Kingdom of Poland}} United Kingdom of Polandball started to conquer the east territory, {{I|Kingdom of Poland}} United Kingdom of Polandball gained a terrain of today Ukraineball's clay, including the cityball of {{I|Lviv}} [[Lvivball]].

During Middle Ages, it participated in the crusades by {{I|Teutonic}} [[Teutonic Orderball]] against {{I|Norse}} [[Kingdom of Norwayball|Norse]] and {{I|Novgorod Republic}} [[Novgorod Republicball|Novgorodian]] pagans. In the 14th century, Polandball is one of the few countryballs that is not affected by the Black Death. The avoidance of the epidemic is attributed to Casimir the Great's decision to shut down Polandball's borders.

In 1321, the United Kingdom of Polanball sued {{I|Teutonic}} [[State of the Teutonic Orderball|Teutonic Orderball]] for unlawful seizure of {{I|Pomerania}} [[Pomereliaball]], and the judge ordered the land and enormous money to be returned. Teutonic Orderball did not agree and the case was eventually suspended.
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In 1326, it was attacked by {{I|Teutonic}} [[State of the Teutonic Orderball|Teutonic Orderball]], which led to a truce, UKPball used the truce for the raid on {{I|Margraviate of Brandenburg}} [[Margraviate of Brandenburgball|Brandenburgball]], and decided to dominate {{I|Duchy of Masovia}} [[Duchy of Masoviaball]] children, who signed an alliance with a {{I|Teutonic}} [[State of the Teutonic Orderball|Teutonic Orderball]]. In 1331, when the truce ended, {{I|Teutonic}} [[State of the Teutonic Orderball|Teutonic Orderball]] declared war on it.

The Jagiellon dynastyball was established under {{I|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}} Lithuanian Grand Duke Władysław II Jagiełło, forming a union between the {{I|Kingdom of Poland}} [[Kingdom of Polandball]] and the {{I|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}} [[Grand Duchy of Lithuaniaball]]. This, however, was a series of alliances, and should not be mistaken for the future {{I|Poland-Lithuania}} Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealthball. Within the Jagiellon Dynasty, Polandball also began developing a feudal system. The passing of the Nihil Novi act also brought about a period called the "Golden Liberty." The Renaissance brought about new ideas. Nicolaus Copernicus, the discovery of the heliocentric theory, was a citizen of {{I|Poland-Lithuania}} [[Poland-Lithuaniaball]]. Due to {{I|Papal States}} [[Papal Statesball]] thinking that the {{I|Earth}} [[Earthball|Earth]] was the center of the {{I|Universe}} Universe, the theory took time to become finally official.

=={{I|Poland-Lithuania}} Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth {{I|Kingdom of Poland}}{{I|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}} (1569-1795)==
When in 1569 {{I|Kingdom of Poland}} Polandball finally reached a personal union with the {{I|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}} [[Grand Duchy of Lithuaniaball]] since a century of tentatives, a new countryball born: the {{I|Poland-Lithuania}} [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealthball]] became the most powerful and biggest East European countryball.

The {{I|Poland-Lithuania}} Commonwealthball conquered the Baltic territory, inhabited mainly by the {{I|Livonian Order}} [[Livonian Orderball]], and won against {{I|Ottoman}} [[Ottomanball]] in 1699 in the Polish-Ottoman War. This war, unfortunately, weakened the country and during the1720s the Polish Succession War made the situation even more difficult. The result was the First Partition of {{I|Poland-Lithuania}} Polandball, in 1772, and the second Partition, in 1794, where {{I|Austrian Empire}} [[Austrian Empireball]], {{I|Russian Empire}} [[Russian Empireball]], and {{I|Kingdom of Prussia}} [[Kingdom of Prussiaball]] splited the territory of [[Poland-Lithuaniaball]]. A independent Polish government was wiped out for more than 120 years.

=={{I|Poland}} Era of Occupation {{I|Kingdom of Prussia}}{{I|Russian Empire}}{{I|Austrian Empire}} (1795-1918)==

The Partitions of Polandball marked the beginning of over a century of foreign occupation. Almost immediately, Poles rebelled against their partitioners, especially around the early 19th century.

In 1806, {{I|Napoleonic}} [[First French Empireball|Napoleonic Franceball]] started invading the {{I|Kingdom of Prussia}} [[Kingdom of Prussiaball]] and created ea {{I|Poland}} [[Duchy of Warsawball]] as a puppet for getting help to spread the Revolution. But this lasted just for eight years after which {{I|Poland}} [[Congress Polandball|Polandball]] was given to the {{I|Russian Empire}} [[Russian Empireball]].

As the Spring of Nations swept Europe, Polandball once again took up arms in the Polish Uprising of 1848 against {{I|Kingdom of Prussia}} [[Prussiaball]]'s rule. Initially, Poles resisted with peaceful civil disobedience. However, when {{I|Kingdom of Prussia}} [[Prussiaball]] sent its military to suppress this, a full-scale uprising began. After several battles, {{I|Kingdom of Prussia}} [[Prussiaball]] managed to completely suppress the uprising and the {{I|Russian Empire}} [[Russian Empireball]] more integrally incorporated the {{I|France}} [[Grand Duchy of Posenball]].

=={{I|Poland}} Independence and the Second Polish Republic {{I|German Empire}}{{I|Russian SFSR (old)}}{{I|Ukrainian SSR (old)}} (1918-39)==

In 1914, [[World War I]] started and {{I|German Empire}} [[German Empireball]] fought {{I|Russian Empire}} Russian Empireball. In this mode, {{I|Congress Poland}} [[Congress Polandball]] stopped being a Russian puppet and became a {{I|German Empire}} German puppet for a couple of years, until the Germans lost. {{I|Poland}} [[Second Polish Republicball]] declared independence and gained some land from German Empireball, which splitted the German land to two and forming the "Polish Corridor" (Which is a reason {{I|Nazi}} [[Nazi Germanyball]] was so angry of Polandball.)

{{I|Soviet}} [[Soviet Unionball]] decided to retake the Polish land after [[World War I]], causing the [[Polish-Soviet War]]. This war quickly ended with the defeat of {{I|Soviet}} Russians (that got {{I|Ukrainian SSR}} [[Ukrainian SSRball]] as additional land) and the victory of {{I|Poland}} Poles.

As a result of the Munich Agreement, {{I|Czech}} [[Czechoslovakiaball]] ceded the tiny Zaolzie regionball to Polandball in 1938, which had been fought over briefly in the [[Polish-Czechoslovak War]].

=={{I|Poland}} World War II {{I|Nazi}}{{I|Soviet}}{{I|Kingdom of Hungary}} (1939-45) ==

In 1933, {{I|Germany}} [[Weimar Republicball]] fell into the evil hand of {{I|Nazi}} [[Nazi Germanyball]] (very infamous for its anti-semitic actions) who decided to invade in 1939 {{I|Poland}} [[Second Polish Republicball]] and the {{I|Free City of Danzig|(soldier)}} [[Free City of Danzigball]] to retake the land lost during [[World War I]]. The Poles fought bravely, yet with the {{I|Soviet}} USSRball invading as well from the East, the fall of {{I|Warsaw}} Warsawball on 28 September was ultimately inevitable. {{I|Soviet}} Poland was wiped out for another 6 years.

Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Polandball was split into two occupation zones between {{I|Nazi}} Nazi Germanyball and the {{I|Soviet}} USSRball. Subsequently, {{I|Soviet}} Soviet authorities purged Polish prisoners and military officers in the Katyn Massacre and deported hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians.

After weeks of fighting, the Polish saw the hopeless situation of the Two-Front War. They fled over the Balkans to {{I|France}} [[Franceball]] and {{I|UK}} [[UKball]] and reorganized to keep offering resistance to {{I|Nazi}} [[Nazi Germanyball]].

When Nazis attacked UKball the Polish soldiers in exile helped, with his trained pilots, to fight the invaders. He also helped the Allies at the Normandy, Monte Cassino and Market Garden. (where they were they only country to successfully take monte casino... )

Underground resistance fighters in occupied Polandball established the Armia Krajowa to fight against the occupying {{I|Nazi}} Germans. Considered one of the largest resistance movements of the war, Armia Krajowa effectively functioned as an entire underground state, and committed key acts of sabotage and targeted assassination.

{{I|Nazi}} [[Nazi Germanyball]] built six extermination camps during the [[Holocaust]], which included the infamous Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek camps. The camps located within Polandball served as the {{I|Nazi}} [[Nazi Germanyball|3rd Reich]]'s largest, and in total 3 million Polish Jews along with a further 2.8 million ethnic Poles were murdered.

Eventually, Polandball was "liberated" by the incoming {{I|Soviet}} [[Soviet Unionball|Soviet Army]], though the {{I|Nazi}} [[Nazi Germanyball|German]] occupation left a completely shattered nation in its wake. Of all countryballs in World War II, Polandball suffered the highest proportion of casualties with relation to its population.

=={{I|Poland}} Communist Rule {{I|Communism}}{{I|East Germany}} (1945-89)==
''main article: {{I|Polandcommie}} [[PR Polandball]]''

The former Second Polish Republicball in exile even got his own zone of occupation inside of the British zone in Emsland, near the [[Netherlandsball|Dutch]] border with [[West Germanyball]].

But then the allies betrayed him and withdraw his recognition as the legitimate Republic of Poland. Only {{I|Ireland}} [[Irelandball]], {{I|Francoist Spain}} [[Spainball]], {{I|Cuba}} [[Cubaball]] and {{I|Vatican}}[[Vaticanball]] recognized the exiled government as the real republic.

After the war, Poland took even more land from the dead [[Nazi Germanyball]]. The {{I|Soviet}} [[Soviet Unionball|USSRball]] then set up a provisional communist government in Polandball. By 1952, the {{I|Polandcommie}} [[PR Polandball]] was set up as a {{I|Soviet}} Soviet satellite state. Despite widespread popular rejection, the {{I|Polandcommie}} PR Polandball ceded its eastern territories to the {{I|Soviet}} [[Soviet Unionball]]. It could eventually into Warsaw Pact.

In 1978, a Pole, Karol Wojtyla, was elected {{I|Vatican}} [[Vaticanball|Pope]] as Pope John Paul II, it is the first Polish Pope in history.

Turmoil once again arose in the 1980s as the independent trade union Solidarity grew as a major political force. Even under government persecution and the declaration of martial law in 1981, Solidarity gradually eroded {{I|Polandcommie}} PR Polandball's single-party rule. Also contrary to popular belief, in 1986, the first Pole went into space. By 1989, Solidarity triumphed and the first free, democratic elections since the end of World War II were held. The Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of {{I|Polandcommie}} PR Polandball as well as other puppet regimes throughout Eastern Europe.

=={{I|Poland}} Can into Peace Again {{I|EU}}{{I|NATO}}{{I|Lithuania}}{{I|Germany}}{{I|Belarus}}{{I|Ukraine}}{{I|Slovakia}}{{I|Czechia}}{{I|Kaliningrad Oblast}} (1989-Present)==
After the Cold War ended, massive liberalizing reforms took place. Polandball relaxed freedom of press and speech and greatly increased personal freedoms. Initially, as with most other Eastern Bloc countryballs, Polandball's economy slowed down. Polandball became the first post-communist state to reach its pre-1989 levels thanks to an economic boom by 1995.

In 1991, Polandball officially joined {{I|NATO}} [[NATOball]], and in 2004 Polandball has voted to join the {{I|EU}} [[EUball]].

On March 4, 2020, it got infected with {{I|Coronavirus}} {{W|COVID-19}}. It is still infected to this moment and it has over 2,000,000 confirmed cases.

In 2022, missiles from the Russo-Ukrainian War landed in East Poland, killing 2 people. It is not sure if they were Ukrainian or Russian. <s>Since the war started, {{I|Poland}} Polandball has been waiting patiently for {{I|Russia}} Russiaball to attack to invoke {{W| North_Atlantic_Treaty#Article_5|Article 5}}</s>.