Słowa kluczowe: persecution of Christians in Persia; Simeon bar Sabba’e; Shapur II, Roman-Persian wars, the Church in Persia, Sultania, Archbishop John of Sultania, Franciscans, Dominicans, Timur, Bayezid, Battle, Zhovti Vody, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Cossack Uprising, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, royal army, Tatars, planning, operational-strategic idea, Łukasz, Franciszek, Wojciech Węgleński, Wacław Rzewuski, Klesztów, cerkiew, pogranicze wyznaniowe, Rzeczypospolita, XVIII w., Gabriel Sławiński, History of Silesia, Cieszyn Silesia, peasants’ history, peasant elites, Olszar family, genealogy, western Lesser Poland, peasants, agrarian reforms, History of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Revival, Hôtel Lambert, Bulgarian Church Movement, Neofit Bozweli, Michał Czajkowski, Polish clergy in France, the Great Emigration, Polish emigration in France, Catholic Church, diplomacy, Italy, Russia, Soviet Union, Lenin, Mussolini, revolution, fascism, communism, women suffrage, South-Eastern Poland, interwar period, political struggle, Christian democracy, Italy after 1945, republicanism, Alcide De Gasperi