Przemysł II

king of Poland

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Przemysł II was a member of the Piast dynasty and briefly served as king of Poland from 1295 to 1296. His bid for unification was cut short by his assassination. He was the prince of Great Poland and briefly reigned in Kraków. The Piast dynasty ruled Poland until 1370.12

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…duchies—a bid for unification by Przemysł II of Great Poland (crowned king in 1295) was cut short by his assassination—to become king of Poland in 1300. Establishing an administration based on provincial royal officials (starosta)—a permanent feature of Polish administration in the centuries to come—he temporarily pacified the country. Wenceslas’s…
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…duchies—a bid for unification by Przemysł II of Great Poland (crowned king in 1295) was cut short by his assassination—to become king of Poland in 1300. Establishing an administration based on provincial royal officials (starosta)—a permanent feature of Polish administration in the centuries to come—he temporarily pacified the country. Wenceslas’s…
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