Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Duchy of Legnica
drawn on the map 1279–1313
Site of the 1241 battle. The Legnica-Brzeg Piast line was remarkably durable: it survived until 1675, when Duke George William died — the last of the entire Piast dynasty.
- Shown on the map
- 1279–1313
- Peak area
- 5k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Site of the 1241 battle. The Legnica-Brzeg Piast line was remarkably durable: it survived until 1675, when Duke George William died — the last of the entire Piast dynasty.
Common questions
- What was the Duchy of Legnica?
- Site of the 1241 battle. The Legnica-Brzeg Piast line was remarkably durable: it survived until 1675, when Duke George William died — the last of the entire Piast dynasty.
- When is the Duchy of Legnica shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Duchy of Legnica 1279–1313. 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 Legnica?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Duchy of Legnica covered about 5,000 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 Legnica en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Legnica
This entry was last updated .
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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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