Rota (poem)
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Rota is an early 20th-century Polish poem, as well as a celebratory anthem, once proposed to be the Polish national anthem. Rota's lyrics were written in 1908 by activist for Polish independence, poet
Original text from 1908
Musical manuscript of Rota by Feliks Nowowiejski, from the Jagiellonian Library collection.
The Republic of Central Lithuania, commonly known as the Central Lithuania, and the Middle Lithuania, was an unrecognized short-lived puppet state of Poland, that existed from 1920 to 1922. It was fou
Rota (poem)
…Poland. Until 1918, Rota served as the anthem of the Polish Scouting movement. Between 1920 and 1922 the piece was chosen as state anthem of the Republic of Central Lithuania, a puppet state fully dependent on the Second Polish Republic (i.e. interwar Poland); while in Poland proper it was seriously considered as a possible…
Piłsudski's bi-lingual Proclamation to the inhabitants of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (April 1919).
Lithuanian postage stamps with overprints of Central Lithuania (Środkowa Litwa), made in 1920