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TIL the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th to 17th-century Europe, covering an area of almost 1,000,000 square kilometres, and having a multi-ethnic population of almost 12 million. Polish and Latin were the two co-official languages.

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