Civitas Schinesghe
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Civitas Schinesghe, commonly referred to in historiography as the Duchy of Poland or the Principality of Poland, was the early medieval polity centered around Gniezno and ruled by the Piast dynasty. I
Polish coin minted during the reign of Bolesław I the Brave with the inscription CIVITAS GNEZDVM, c. 992–1000
Polans (western)
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The Polans were allegedly one of the early medieval cultural and geographical groupings today referred to as the Polish tribes who inhabited the lakelands of Greater Poland and played an important rol
Civitas Schinesghe
…not appear in the document, the term Schinesghe is generally understood to refer to Gniezno, one of the principal gord strongholds of the West Slavic Polans. Philological analysis suggests that the spelling "Sc" may represent a scribal substitution for "K", which in turn was phonetically interchangeable…
A fragment of the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (1073) by Adam of Bremen containing the name Polans – Latin: trans Oddaram sunt Polanos, lit. 'across the Oder are the Polans'.
A denarius coin Princes Polonie, minted by Bolesław I the Brave in c. 1003–1005
The medieval fortifications of Giecz