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Deluge (history)
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Deluge (history)
The term
Deluge
(, ) denotes a series of mid-17th-century campaigns in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the
Khmelnytsky (Chmielnicki) Uprising
of 1648 and the
Truce of Andrusovo
in 1667, thus comprising the Polish theatres of the
Russo-Polish
and
Second Northern Wars
. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the
Swedish
invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the
Second Northern War
only (1655–1660); In Poland and Lithuania this period is called the
Swedish Deluge
, and the term deluge (or
potop
in Polish) was popularized by
Henryk Sienkiewicz
, in his 1886 book
The Deluge
.
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