Word: sejm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially recognized as an autonomous state by the Treaty of Versailles; and not until then did "Marshal" Josef Pilsudski attain recognition by the Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council" and "Provisional Council of State" which sprang up in response to the necessity for some sort of government during the War. The Slavonic Poles naturally continue "Catholic" (Russian Orthodox, Greek, Roman, Armenian...
During the war the then General Pilsudski was again imprisoned, this time in Magdeburg by the Germans. On November 14, 1918, he was freed, returned to Poland and assumed supreme power, being confirmed later by the Constituent Assembly (Sejm Ustawodawczy...