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Casimir III 1310 - 1370 King of Poland |
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Casimir was called 'the Great' for his peaceful expansion of the
Polish kingdom. Casimir initiated a personal union with Hungary and he
strengthened Poland through treatises with Lithuania and Bohemia. Upon
his death he left a country doubled in size, prosperous, wealthy and with great prospects for the future.
Domestically he codified Poland's unwritten constitution and law and founded the nation's first university at Cracow. |
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