JOHN III SOBIESKI


Meaning of JOHN III SOBIESKI in English

Polish Jan Sobieski born Aug. 17, 1629, Olesko, Pol. died June 17, 1696, Wilanw elective king of Poland (167496), a soldier who drove back the Ottoman Turks and briefly restored the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania to greatness for the last time. Additional reading For further information, see O. Forst de Battaglia, Jan Sobieski, 167496, in The Cambridge History of Poland, vol. 1, pp. 532556 (1950).

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