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Zygmunt August
King Zygmunt August
Polish ruler whose private fiefdom included Bialystok 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
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Bialystok becomes a Polish royal fiefdom
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Bialystok Jewish community
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Bialystok
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Gedimin
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Izchok Zabludowski
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Zabludowski family
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Tyktin
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Jan Klements Bronicki
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