Event · Political Status Change
Bialystok becomes a Polish royal fiefdom
Bialystok became the private fiefdom of King Zygmunt August in 1542.
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... Around the 10th century CE, the Bialystok region
was populated by a barbaric Baltic-Latvian tribe. Sub-
sequently, its members were expelled from the area by
Russian-Lithuanian conquerors. In 1320, Bialystok was
founded as a village by the Lithuanian Count Gedimin.
After being passed on from one generation of this
Lithuanian family to the next, the village became the
private fiefdom of King Zygmunt August, a Polish
ruler, in 1542. ...Connected nodes