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At first glance, such a question may seem to be rhetorical because the answer is probably obvious for the vast majority of Poles who unanimously accept the deeply rooted historiographic tradition, which offers a very clear answer: “This happened in 966 by the decision of Prince Mieszko I.” This millennium-long explanation has recently been harmoniously approved by the Polish parliament, the government and the Church.
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This is the sort of trouble that Polish Duke Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty, 1107–1138) faced in Pomerania. Once conquered militarily, the Pomeranians would frequently “seek salvage in baptism, but once having recovered their strength again, recanted the Christian faith” (Gall Anonim, Book I, Introduction).
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Urbańczyk, P. (2023). Who Converted the Poles?. In: Stepanov, T., Karatay, O. (eds) Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34429-9_5
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