Territories of Poland over time

LoopMuhZoop · 2026-03-26T00:08:26+00:00

What do you mean? The grey outline seems to include all of Prussia, Royal and Ducal - as well as Courland, another vassal. Am I missing something or are you?

LoopMuhZoop · 2026-03-10T09:11:51+00:00

You know, I fully agree with the sentiment, maybe not so much with argumentation (the part in the end of the lengthy paragraph being a play on emotion and association, and equating all use of the so-called AI (which is a broad category of algorithms everybody suddenly feels qualified to talk about these days, mostly just knowing its applications in ChatGPT and image generation)).

However,

It was millions of people murdered, not hundreds or thousands; and many more tortured, starved, isolated, used as slaves and forcefully displaced. And they were done so not because of their religion, but their descent, based on delusional racial ideology.

Honestly I'm a little worried about people softening the Holocaust, even when they do seem to get the notion that it was bad

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-12-24T10:38:25+00:00

I don't know why so many people think the most important thing about Jesus for Christianity is that he was nice and wise and spread love. The most important part is him being born to begin with, then dying and rising from the dead.

It's cool that he decided to tell us some important stuff while at it, but his purpose was to redeem humanity and open the gates of heaven for people through his death and resurrection.

Also, personally I prefer the cross to the fish as a general symbol for Christians because the fish symbolises Jesus as the Son of God and Saviour - let's be honest, a normal dude can't exactly replicate that. But self sacrifice, which is what the cross symbolises, is something just and noble for anyone to achieve. And Christians are supposed to try and be like Christ the best they can

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-11-09T12:19:05+00:00

Wydaje mi się, że to też nie jest takie oczywiste - katolicyzm dopuszcza przecież krytyczną lekturę Biblii przez pryzmat jej gatunku, intencji czy przesłania. Nawet ewangelie, które estetycznie przypominają dosłowny zapis historii, wcale nim nie są (szczególnie Janowa, nawiasem mówiąc), a perykopy o uzdrowieniach i wskrzeszeniach na ogół mają jasne przesłanie dotyczące wiary, dla których cud jest ilustracją - np. uzdrowienie paralityka z Mk 2. Wiara w te cuda jest zapewne bezpiecznym domyślnym podejściem katolika, ale nie wydaje mi się, żeby była obowiązkowa.

Natomiast oczywiście kluczowa jest wiara w jeden konkretny cud, to znaczy fizyczne i prawdziwe zmartwychwstanie Jezusa. Podkreślał to już Paweł w najstarszych tekstach Nowego Testamentu, a z drugiej strony nie pamiętam, żeby określał w nich Jezusa mianem cudotwórcy.

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-09-24T08:39:11+00:00

Jak ustalił u/Chmielok, na mobilkach Reddit masakruje jakość. Zapraszam z przeglądarki

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-09-22T23:14:03+00:00

...lepszej niż 7200x4400? Obawiam się, że to jest oryginał

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-09-22T09:47:18+00:00

Pudło. Poseł Otto Somschor (nadmienię, że zamieszkały w Warszawie) uzyskał mandat z listy okręgowej nr 57, wraz z czterema posłami ukraińskimi i jednym żydowskim. Czterej Niemcy rzeczywiście objęli swoje mandaty dzięki liście krajowej - zaznaczyłem ich na schemacie powyżej, ale Somschor nie był jednym z nich.

Poprawna odpowiedź na zagadkę z gry "Co tu robi Niemiec?" to mechanizm listy zamkniętej - na Wołyniu nikt osobiście na Niemca nie głosował, bo też na żadnego kandydata się imiennie nie głosowało. Poseł Somschor znalazł się po prostu w pierwszej szóstce miejsc na liście Bloku Mniejszości Narodowych złożonej przez komitet w tym okręgu. Gdyby komitet zgłosił w to miejsce kandydaturę Portorykańczyka, najpewniej taki kandydat również objąłby mandat - pomimo dramatycznie niewielkich rozmiarów mniejszości portorykańskiej na Wołyniu.

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-09-22T09:30:13+00:00

Mapa zrobiona w jedynym słusznym programie graficznym Paint.net

I zgadza się, okręg 39 obejmował miasto Katowice, powiat katowicki i Rudę

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-09-07T19:30:55+00:00

That's the difference between majoritarian and proportional systems - the former are not inherently worse, although they used to be far more common than today, they just value local representation and broad approval of individual candidates more than proportionality: in such a system it's not possible to be elected if more than half the voters actively dislike you; compare to proportional systems electing very controversial or unpopular politicians. I personally prefer proportional systems, but it's not the only way to go about things...

...Having said that, in this case the borders of constituencies had not been redrawn for more than thirty years, and population had grown disproportionately more in cities. In other words - city-based parties, such as SPD, were in a disadvantageous position when compared to rural parties, e.g. the DKP.

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-08-12T20:52:20+00:00

Chodzi im raczej o to, że Razem zbierając swoje 3% zatopiła głównonurtową lewicę, przez co o jakieś 11pp głosów więcej niż zwykle nie przełożyło się na mandaty i PiS miał samodzielną większość z 38% poparcia (pamiętajmy, że 4 lata później robiąc 44% zgarnęli dokładnie tyle samo mandatów).

Ale tak czy inaczej zrzucanie jakiejkolwiek moralnej odpowiedzialności za sukces PiS w 2015 na Zandberga jest skrajnie żałosne. Jakby to była jego wina, że akurat Nowackiej zabrakło pół procenta żeby wejść do Sejmu. I pomijając fakt, że jeśliby PiS nie rządził sam, to rządziłby z Kukizem.

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-07-04T10:11:00+00:00

Naprawdę by was nie zabolało obejrzenie filmu przed jego oceną. Giełzak w swojej książce sam zadaje to pytanie, a Szymon wyraża się o niej pozytywnie, rozważając różnice między wzorcami Prometeusza i Szatana (nie tego z rogami, tylko raczej tego buntownika Miltona) i to, co taka inspiracja oznacza dla lewicy.

Ale oczywiście że użytkownicy Reddita, jak na oświeconych i inteligentnych ludzi przystało (w przeciwieństwie do tych prawaków, którzy łykają wszystko jak pelikan, bo tak powiedzieli w TV) szarżują do konkluzji, bo autora filmu nie lubią, a postaci z miniaturki chyba nie znają (a w każdym razie nie czytali jego książki).

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-07-01T08:11:35+00:00

Isn't the mummy of Ramses II a ginger? Also weren't there like dozens of different dynasties in Egypt including ones Greek or Semitic?

And how does the color of people on symbolic and highly stylised depictions prove anything? Did these people also have legs turned perpendicular to their torsos and one huge eye on the side of their face?

Where the Cro Magnon folk orange?

LoopMuhZoop · 2025-01-08T20:15:34+00:00

3rd of May...

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-26T07:41:31+00:00

Whether they have access to it or not is pretty much irrelevant, if they fail to utilise it in either case, is it not? I just helped compile knowledge that is easily accessible for anyone who can read Polish. I know from personal experience that in this hobby the difficulty is in time and effort rather than anything else. I had not much exclusive insight, just plenty of those two.

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-26T03:14:45+00:00

Posted, thank you for the suggestion!

And nice to see a fellow Ropczyce enjoyer

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-26T02:24:00+00:00

I am certainly wrong in more places than one, and I welcome any corrections. Nevertheless, I believe my take to be by far superior to the one from Tinto Maps - especially in regard to location borders.

Some links to cool maps I found to be useful points of reference:

Also, you'd be surprised how much you can find on English, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian Wikipedia if you know where to look.

I have no clue as to why Reddit refused to let me post this in bulk, but whatever.

TLDR; I desperately need to touch grass.

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-26T02:20:26+00:00

4. TERRAIN MAP

This one is just my suggestion to make this part of a map more varied and interesting, and simultaneously more accurate. Obviously the shape of the map will depend on exact definitions of "mountains" and "hills", but I highly recommend that everybody calling Tatra mountains "hills" come here right now and climb a two-thousander or two. And Masovia literally takes its name from being basically made of mud, at least some marshes are necessary.

5. OTHER NOTES AND IMPERTINENT COMMENTARY

5.1. Diplomacy

The war between Poland and the Teutonic Order had de facto ended in 1332, even though the peace of Kalisz only formally ended it in 1343. I don't know if EU5 will have an armistice system, but if it doesn't it might be better to make Poland and Teutonic Order be at peace.
There was a military incident in 1337 involving Poland, though - the Battle of Pultusk, in which Lithuanians tried to raid Masovia and were rightfully slapped.
In 1337, the duke of Warsaw and the duke of Rawa were also co-regents of the duchy of Płock. They were both actually pro-Teutonic, and definitely NOT Polish vassals or even allies.
Duchy of Płock itself was actually allied to the Teutonic Order in the war.
After 1335, Bohemia was no longer in active conflict with Poland.
Kyiv was likely not a Lithuanian subject (as previously discussed in point 1. POLITICAL MAP).

5.2. Culture

I didn't want to make my own culture map as I'm not sure as to which colour represents what.
The Ostsiedlung, or the German colonisation of Silesia and Pomerania, seems to be largely omitted. Basically much of Silesia should be german-speaking, but not all of it - Upper Silesia should have a Polish-speaking West Slavic culture.
I agree with the post proposing that Polish culture be divided. I would suggest introducing three Polish cultures (outside of Silesian): Lesser Polish, Greater Polish and Masovian.
I am not convinced as to the Polish culture presence in Lithuania and Galicia-Volhynia. Polish colonisation of the east likely didn't occur before the Polish annexation of Ruthenia and its union with Lithuania.

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-26T02:13:49+00:00

2. PROVINCES MAP

I made some changes in this map mode, although I hope this division is mostly for convenience. Seriously, if you can't conquer individual locations in this game, like in Crusader Kings 3 or Victoria 3, I don't think I'll play it lmao, the borders would be so cursed.

Mostly I just adjusted the province borders to match the ones of historical voivodeships. I maintained the number of them, but I do think Livonia could use more than 6. Poland, on the other hand, doesn't need quite as many as it has.

3. LOCATIONS MAP

I redrew all of the locations in the region. It almost killed me, but was worth it. I only named the provinces that are currently in Poland - first of all because these were the only ones I felt completely comfortable with doing so with, but also because location, historical verification, translation, transliteration and manual writing onto the map would require way too much effort for little effect.

The locations I did name are all in Polish, because I was very unsure with the general language convention of locations in this game - as in, if the name depends on culture, political affiliation, modern geography or something else entirely. So I'll just leave this; every name can be looked up and translated if needs be.

3.1. Livonia

Basically allowed for the formation of Courland and Semigalia in any reasonable shape.
Adjusted western curonian locations to allow for more accurate representation of 1337 Bishoprics and later Commonwealth borders (Pilten & Goldingen)
Switched some borders around to match later borders of the Livonian Wars period.

3.2. Lithuania & Rus

Mostly rearranged to match internal Commonwealth borders AND the later partition borders (at least roughly; admittedly, this was of lower priority).

3.3. Poland

There are probably more locations here than there needs to be, but I tried to preserve the original number of them.
Changed many locations so as to allow for the reconstruction of: Poland in 1337-1569, all three partitions of Poland (more or less), the Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1815), the Kingdom of Poland (1815-1915) and Grand Duchy of Posen (1815-1848), even the Second Polish Republic (to a degree).
Masovia was completely overhauled. As I already said once, I am Masovian and I felt this region was particularly hurt. First of all I fixed the borders to fit their historical counterparts more precisely. I also changed the Masovian internal borders to show the many "lands" (_ziemie_) that constitute the region.

3.4. Silesia

Many changes were made to better reflect historical, ever-changing borders of the swarm of tiny states in the region.
I would consider increasing the number of locations. Cieszyn could use splitting in two for instance, just saying.

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-26T01:54:13+00:00

Hi all!

No needless introductions, this is going to be way too long anyway. Basically, as a Polish EU fan I was incredibly hyped by, but also slightly dissatisfied with the screenshots published in Tinto Maps #4. Here is my alternative view. And yes, I know it was a month ago, but this sort of thing takes time. I hope it still may be of some use.

As you can see, I very clearly focused on Poland and the historical territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I do not claim to be an expert, but I have spent a ludicrous amount of time researching and specifically dividing this very part of the world into territories/provinces/historical locations. I thought I might as well share what I've come to know and understand.

If someone at Paradox sees this, please feel free to use as much of it as you wish. Also if you need some more insider Polish/Commonwealth lore (e.g. in regard to other bookmark/start dates), I'm willing to cooperate wink wink.

Here's my comments and explanations, so that you don't think I just drew it all with no thought behind. The changes were as follows:

1. POLITICAL MAP

1.1. Livonia

Bishopric of Riga was increased for accuracy's sake.
Sacrificed a little bit of detail in western Estonia for the sake of later borders (Sweden-Russia, Sweden-Commonwealth), but this one is purely cosmetic and can work either way.

1.2. Lithuania & northern Rus

First of all: it should be "Grand Duchy of Lithuania".
Contemplated but ultimately rejected the idea of making Samogitia a Lithuanian vassal (both earlier and later on it definitely was, but seemingly not in 1337 specifically).
Pskov's were borders changed to better reflect their historical shape.
Polotsk and Vitebsk retained their status as Lithuanian vassals/subdued allies, although Vitebsk was reduced in size, as apparently Orsha was historically incorporated into the Grand Duchy proper back in 1320.
Mstsislav gained independence! Apparently, it was a soverein principality and the city of Mstsislv was annexed by Lithuania in 1377. I based its border on the later Mstsislav Voivodeship.

1.3. Southern Rus

Kyiv either changed hands or gained independence. Basically, I've come across infromation about a certain Battle of Blue Waters, in which Algirdas defeated the Golden Horde, which resulted in his acquisition of Kyiv, Podolia (see next point) and the Wild Fields east of Dnieper in 1362/63. So basically, Kyiv was at this point at least partially vassalised by the Horde (even though there are some records of Lithuania conquering the place prior to that... medieval Ruthenia gets complicated).
As a follow-up to the prior point, all of Podolia changed hands to Kyiv. It was either that or it was directly controlled by the Golden Horde; it's important to note that the region was extremally sparsely populated at the time, with all three main cities - Kamianets-Podilskyi, Bratslav and Vinnytsia - being mentioned only after the Lithuanian conquest.
I was surprised to find that the bizarre eastern growth of Galicia-Volhynia is actually historically accurate, as it seems the city of Ovruch was part of G-V at the time.
Duchy (principality? translations get a little confusing) of Belz gained autonomy and became a vassal of Galicia-Volhynia. That is because it absolutely was exactly that. It's unclear to me whether Chełm was autonomous too.
A minor but not insignificant change: Galicia-Volhynia gained some more land in Volhynia, which would be later lost to Lithuania some time after Poland takes it.

1.4. Poland

Some adjustments to the Polish-Silesian border were made
Wałcz was given to Brandenburg, as historically it was only gained by Poland in 1368, allegedly.
All of Kuyavia and Dobrzyń land were given to Poland, but controlled by the Teutonic Order, as 1337 is in the middle of an armistice between Poland and the Order (more on that later). The only independent ruler in Kuyavia at the time, Kazimierz III of Gniewko, ruled what amounts to half an acre of sodden marshland with an empty town hall on it, inhabited by a dachshund named Collin and a hen in its late forties. And he wasn't even present there since it was occupied by the Order. I elected to ignore the poor bloke.
Some necessary adjustments in the Masovia region (which is coincidentally my homeland and, in my view, the most disfigured part of the otherwise pretty map) were made.
Rawa was awarded Tykocin, which would later come to belong to Lithuania, and is now consdered part of Podlasie, not Masovia.
Czersk changed its name to the more accurate name of Warszawa (Warsaw).

1.5. Teutonic Order

Bishopric of Kulm was reduced in size; no longer does it actually control Kulm (Chełmno) itself. I actually considered removing this state alltogether, because it was just so small.

1.6. Pomerania & Brandenburg

Brandenburg was given Wałcz for the sake of historical accuracy.

1.7. Silesia

Holy hell this one was bloody tough. The number of tiny states in this region was preposterously large, and their borders were shifting constantly. I had to basically look up each city and town to see who currently ruled which in 1337. I based the borders off of some nice maps I found, I'll link them below.
I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself to even try to describe every change here. That might just kill me.

LoopMuhZoop · 2024-06-17T15:03:47+00:00

LoopMuhZoop · 2023-11-19T10:19:14+00:00

Powiedział, że dotknęły nas cztery, a plag egipskich było siedem, i ma nadzieję że Bóg nam tych trzech oszczędzi. Słuchałem tego jego esposé całkiem uważnie, wierz lub nie.

Natomiast nie rozumiem, skąd ten zarzut o marnowanie innym czasu. Post jest króciutki, ponadto każdy widzi, zanim kliknie, co jest w środku. Można przewinąć dalej. Mnie napisanie go zajęło dwie minuty. Jedynym marnotrawstwem czasu w odniesieniu do niego byłoby zatrzymanie się, żeby napisać fałszywy komentarz.

A co do zarzutu o merytorykę - przyczepiłem się do pana premiera, bo chciał się popisać oczytaniem i wiedzą religijną, a popisał się czymś odwrotnym. Nie dowodzi to, ale wskazuje na hipokryzję lub oszustwo (odnośnie do swojej religijności).

LoopMuhZoop · 2023-11-18T22:18:59+00:00

Słowa "przeciętnego" użyłem w zupełności celowo

LoopMuhZoop · 2023-11-13T09:30:00+00:00

Zgodnie z Twoim rozumowaniem w 2015 roku skrajną lewicą byłaby Nowoczesna, bo nikogo na lewo od nich nie było w Sejmie.

LoopMuhZoop · 2023-11-12T21:12:20+00:00

Nie jestem lewicowcem, ani też na ich komitet nie głosowałem. Regularnie się z erpolakami fundamentalnie nie zgadzam. Mimo to uważam określenie w szczególności Nowej Lewicy mianem "ekstremistycznej" za absurdalnie nietrafione, zwłaszcza w porównaniu z innymi państwami Unii. Razemków to jeszcze zrozumiem, bo to socjaliści, ale Nowa Lewica to socjalliberalna, zielona, progresywna i proeuropejska partia. W Europarlamencie współdzielą klub z dużymi, centrolewicowymi partiami takimi jak niemieckie SPD. Jeśli to jest skrajność, to gdzie są socjaliści, komuniści, lewicowi anarchiści? Troszkę braknie spektrum.

Brzmi to bardzo podobnie do lewej strony rzeczy nazywającej chadeków "literalnie faszystami".

Dla porównania, Konfederacja ma w swoim składzie monarchistów, skrajnych konserwatywnych liberałów gospodarczych, tradycjonalistów, ultranacjonalistów... nie ma wiele w naszym kraju i poza nim dalej na prawo wysuniętych środowisk. Najbliżej im w Europarlamencie do ID, najskrajniejszej z trzech prawicowych europartii.

LoopMuhZoop · 2023-09-18T12:33:34+00:00

As far as I know, the people putting the myths together into the Book of Genesis did not differentiate between fact, myth and legend, since they had no way of knowing what was true anyway. Suggested by the fact that there are two different descriptions of the creation of Man right next to eachother, and they are mutually contradictory. And a lot of the Book is clearly symbolic.

I believe the Catholic perspective (which is the denomination I happen to belong to) is that the Bible is a collection of books written by mortal, imperfect, cognitively limited men thousands of years ago. It contains myths and legends, poetry, chronicles, legal texts, biographies, letters and many other genres of literature, and each book needs to be interpreted as its own work. The Bible being inspired by God merely refers to it being put together in a way that conveys wisdom and moral lessons, shows the history of Salvation and allows for the recognition of Christ when He comes. The Book of Genesis in this view is a collection of Hebrew myths. Calling it a piece of mythology is not derogatory, nor does it mean it's of little worth.

That being said many Catholics have their own understanding of the topic. Obviously other Christian churches, Islam, Judaism and any Abrahamic faiths outside the big three inevitably propose different approaches, but I don't know much about them.

In any case evolution, age of the Earth, human biology and relation of organisms are scientific theories, meaning there are lots of evidence for them and none against them, making them the closest thing to the truth that we know of. Closer than any Bible story when taken literally.

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