Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Duchy of Głogów
drawn on the map 1250–1313
A Lower Silesian duchy whose dukes (notably Henry III of Głogów) contended for the Polish crown around 1300. Fragmented and passed under Bohemian overlordship.
- Shown on the map
- 1250–1313
- Peak area
- 16k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A Lower Silesian duchy whose dukes (notably Henry III of Głogów) contended for the Polish crown around 1300. Fragmented and passed under Bohemian overlordship.
Common questions
- What was the Duchy of Głogów?
- A Lower Silesian duchy whose dukes (notably Henry III of Głogów) contended for the Polish crown around 1300. Fragmented and passed under Bohemian overlordship.
- When is the Duchy of Głogów shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Duchy of Głogów 1250–1313. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Duchy of Głogów?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Głogów covered about 16,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Duchy of Głogów en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_G%C5%82og%C3%B3w
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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