Polish Legions [20]
The Centenary of the Formation of the Polish Legions
Dimensions: 147 x 67 mm
Mintage: 50000 pcs
Date of issue: 2014-08-05
Issue price: 60 pln
Designer: Andrzej Heidrich
Steel engraving matrix designer: Krystian Michalczuk
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The word legion (from Latin legio – draft) long
ago has been permanently incorporated into
the military vocabulary. Accordingly, it has also
entered the Polish language, when following
the partition of the Polish state among its
neighbours at the end of the eighteenth century,
Polish patriots repeatedly created military forces
aiming at regaining the country’s independence.
Those units attested to their readiness to fight for
the motherland by adopting the proud name of
a legion.
One of such formations were the Polish Legions,
created on 16 August 1914 in the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy. As internal relations in that state
liberalised at the beginning of the 20th century,
Polish independence activists led by Józef Piłsudski
were able to ...