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600th year anniversary of the battle of Grunwald

 

Lithuania intends to celebrate 600th year anniversary of the battle of Grunwald. 

The Lithuanian Post office anoune about stamp(s) will issue in 2010.

The Battle of Grunwald (or 1st Battle of Tannenberg) took place on 15 July 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by the king Władysław II Jagiełło and Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great, ranged against the Knights of the Teutonic Order, led by the Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen. It was the decisive engagement in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411), one of the most important battles in Medieval Europe, and the largest battle to involve knights.

The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively defeated — their order never recovered its former power.