Civitas Schinesghe Państwo Gnieźnieńskie (Polish) | |||||||||||
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| 966–1025 | |||||||||||
 Coat of arms
(c. 1000) | |||||||||||
 Duchy of Poland around the year AD 1000 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Gniezno | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Lechitic Old Polish | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism (institutional) Slavic paganism | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||||
• c. 960–992 | Mieszko I | ||||||||||
• 992–1025 | Bolesław I the Brave | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 966 | |||||||||||
• Coronation of Bolesław I the Brave | 1025 | ||||||||||
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Civitas Schinesghe (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈtʃivitas skiˈnesɡe]; Polish: Państwo Gnieźnieńskie), also known as the Duchy of Poland or the Principality of Poland, is the historiographical name given to a polity in Central Europe, which existed during the medieval period and was the predecessor state of the Kingdom of Poland.