Adalbert of Prague
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Adalbert of Prague, Polish: Święty Wojciech, known in the Czechia, Poland and Slovakia by his birth name Wojciech/Vojtěch, was a Czech missionary and Christian saint. He is the patron Saint of Poland.
Portrait by Mihály Kovács, 1855
Monument to Adalbert and his brother Gaudentius, Libice nad Cidlinou, Czech Republic
The execution of Saint Adalbert by the pagan Prussians, Gniezno Doors
Silver coffin of Adalbert, Cathedral in Gniezno
Old Prussians
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Old Prussians, Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians were a Baltic people that inhabited the region of Prussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and th
Adalbert of Prague
…of Poland. He was the Bishop of Prague and a missionary to the Hungarians, Poles, and Prussians, who was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity. He is said to be the composer of the oldest Czech hymn Hospodine, pomiluj ny and Bogurodzica, the oldest known Polish anthem but his…
Prussian tribes and their borders around 1200.
Political and tribal fragmentation of the 12th century Old Prussians
A fragment of the Pomesanian statute book of 1340. The earliest attested document of the customary law of the Balts.
Engraving of a Prussian warrior with a club in Christoph Hartknoch's 1684 book "Old and New Prussia" (Alt- und Neues Preussen)