Journal 50 – 597 anniversary the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg)

Today is July 15, 2007. On July 15,1410, Wladyslaw Jagiello united Poland and Lithuania troops under his rule. Polish and Lithuanian forces led by Jagiello and his Lithuanian cousin Vytautus won an important battle against the Teutonic Knights at Grunwald which was called Tannenberg.
Wladyslaw Jagiello was grand duke of Lithuania from 1377 to 1401, and King of Poland from 1386 to 1434. He founded the Jagiellonian dynasty. Grand Duke Jagiello married Poland’s Queen Jadwiga in 1386. Thanks the Union, Luthuania and Poland became allies against threatened attacks by the Teutonic Knights. It was organization of German crusaders. The Battle of Grunwald was of the greatest battle medieval Europe.
It village, Grunwald or Tannenberg, is located in my state, wojewodstwo, named Warminsko-Mazurskie. It is located in northeastern Poland closer the Baltic Sea.