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If you went back to 1400 and asked someone in, say, Lwow what country they were in, I guarantee 0% would tell you "Poland-Lithuania". Sure, Poland and Lithuania
by m_myers 13y ago
If you went back to 1400 and asked someone in, say, Lwow what country they were in, I guarantee 0% would tell you "Poland-Lithuania". Sure, Poland and Lithuania were both ruled by Wladyslaw Jagiello (pardon my spelling and/or lack of diacritics), but no one would have claimed they were the same entity.
- sspiff 13y agoPersonal unions were not considered to be the same entity unless one was eventually absorbed into the other (like with Castille and Aragon becoming Spain). They didn't even have the same governments, and laws and citizenship were distinct between partners in a union. The only thing they had in common was the head of state. So yes, labelling them as a single country does seem wrong.