A traveller's history of Poland

Early Poland, origins to 1138

From fragmentation to rebirth, 1138-1333

From wood to stone, 1333-1466

The golden age, 1466-1576

The silver age and the end of the Commonwealth, 1576-1795

The long nineteenth century, 1795-1914

Rebirth, 1914-39

War, occupation and Holocaust, 1939-46

"People's Poland, " 1946-78

The age of John Paul II, 1978-2005

Chronology of major events.