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Poland's First King: Bolesław the Brave and the Birth of a Nation
Before Poland had a king, it had a duke who dreamed of empire. Bolesław the Brave, son of Mieszko I, transformed a fledgling Piast duchy into a formidable kingdom that would challenge the German Emperor and shape Eastern Europe for centuries. This episode follows Bolesław's audacious campaigns—from conquering Kraków and Gdańsk to intervening in Kievan Rus' and Bohemia. We explore his alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III at the Congress of Gniezno in 1000 AD, where Poland's first archbishopric was established, and later his bitter wars with Otto's successor, Henry…
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