All Modern-Day Countries Ever Controlled by Polish People

With the help of a map, can you guess all modern day countries that were at one point under Polish rule from the 9th century (establishment of Civitas Schinesghe) up to now?
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Includes Courish colonies.
Excluding the Polish zone in Iraq.
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Last updated: June 18, 2021
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Countries
Austria
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cameroon
Countries
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Countries
Gambia
Germany
Hungary
Latvia
Countries
Lithuania
Madagascar
Moldova
Poland
Countries
Romania
Russia
Senegal
Serbia
Countries
Slovakia
Slovenia
Trinidad and Tobago
Ukraine
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Level 60
May 10, 2021
China?
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Level 55
May 10, 2021
This is an interesting one. A deported Polish noble established the state of Jaxa in a village called Albazino near the modern day eastern China-Russia border. It lasted from 1665 to 1685.
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Level 77
May 10, 2021
Polish command also occupied and controlled about quarter of Iraq in 2003-2008.
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Level 39
May 10, 2021
Omg, we commented at same time!
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Level 55
May 10, 2021
I completely forgot about that, but I will not include that. I'll add a caveat regarding that, however.
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Level 39
May 10, 2021
Gambia and Trinidad and Tobago? How?
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Level 55
May 10, 2021
Courland, a vassal state subject to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was responsible for these colonies.
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Level 39
May 10, 2021
Thanks
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Level 65
May 10, 2021
Nominated! I want to give so much praise, but the map says it all. I'm have a third of Polish ancestry, but I think that people who reside in or have connections with Poland will like it even better than I do.
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Level 55
May 11, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 39
May 11, 2021
Great! :D
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Level 55
May 11, 2021
Thank you!
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Level 37
May 18, 2021
It's just hilarious how Poland owned a part of the Gambia.
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Level 62
Jun 19, 2021
Please tell me when Poles controlled Adriatic Sea coast? I'm Polish but I've never heard about it
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Level 55
Jun 19, 2021
Hungary had a Polish king at multiple points in time (sometimes even ending up in sharing the same monarch as Poland) and at the time was a lot bigger and bordered the Adriatic Sea.
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Level 69
Jul 23, 2021
Madagascar and Cameroon were once colonised by Poland/Courland? Can you give me a laydown?
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Level 55
Jul 23, 2021
Cameroon: An expedition that resulted in an attempt to establish a Polish community by a Polish nobleman in 1882. It was short-lived and the Poles left the same year.

Madagascar: Maurice Benyovszky, a Hungarian-Polish nobleman originally intended to set up a French trading post on Madagascar in 1773, only to be proclaimed king by the locals there. He departed in 1776 and then came back in 1785, only to be murdered by the French the following year.

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Level 54
Aug 18, 2022
Just fyi, Slovaks are also claiming Maurice Benovsky, although he did not consider himself Slovak. He was born in present-day Slovakia.
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Level 71
Oct 25, 2021
What about Vatican City? Pope John Paul II was polish
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Level 55
Oct 25, 2021
Good call. I'll add that in when I get the time to.
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Level 47
Dec 21, 2021
WHY WASNT I TOUGHT THIS IN MY HISTORY CLASS
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Level 58
Jun 30, 2022
same
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Level 85
Aug 5, 2022
If they couldn't be bothered to teach you how to spell "taught"....

I keed, I keed.

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Level 64
Aug 5, 2022
Wow, imagine if there had been a full on Polish Empire? How might history have been different?
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Level 55
Aug 5, 2022
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth pretty much was a Polish empire.
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Level 88
Aug 5, 2022
Nice work. How about Sweden? Sigismund III Vasa was king of both countries for about 7 years in the late 1500s.
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Level 55
Aug 5, 2022
Sigismund III was not Polish.
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Level 82
Aug 5, 2022
What about Israel?
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Level 85
Dec 30, 2022
K has a point - most of the leadership of Israel has roots in Poland/Ukraine/Belarus.
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Level 75
Aug 6, 2022
Just couldn't see Senegal on the map, it's frustrating watching the timer tick down with no idea what to do :(

I love these types of quiz though, good work.

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Level 37
Aug 19, 2022
Fantastic quiz, only Senegal is very unvisible
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Level 39
Sep 24, 2022
Tobago island didnt threw me off but i thought that it was lithuanian thattime
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Level 87
Feb 12, 2023
Can you please make that more clear that it's China? Maybe zoom out a little? Thx great quiz