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What was the capital city of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?

  • Kraków

  • Vilnius

  • Warsaw

  • Lviv

Answer

The capital city of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was Warsaw. The city became the capital in 1596, when King Sigismund III Vasa moved the royal court from Kraków to Warsaw, which was more centrally located and better suited for governing the large and diverse territory of the Commonwealth.
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