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Mazovia or Masovia Pol. Mazowsze, historic region, central Poland. At the death (1138) of Boleslaus III, Mazovia became an independent duchy under the Piast dynasty. It became a suzerainty of Great Poland in 1351 and was finally united with it in 1526. Mazovia passed to Prussia during the 18th-century partitions of Poland and was later a part of the Russian Empire. It reverted to Poland in 1918.

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Mazovia (Mazowsze), Poland A historic region named after the Mazowie tribe, or Mazurs. An independent principality between the middle of the 12th–15th centuries, it joined Poland in 1526. It became part of Prussia when Poland was partitioned for the second time in 1793, part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, and absorbed by the Russian Empire in 1815. It became part of Poland again in 1918 when that country regained its identity. The present province has the name Mazowieckie. See masuria.

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