This document, known as the Union of Krewo (also, the Act of Kreva), was issued on August 14, 1385 by Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), Grand Duke of Lithuania, as the outcome of the negotiations he had conducted with the Polish lords acting on behalf of the child queen Jadwiga (Hedwig), and Jadwiga’s mother Elżbieta Bośniaczka… Continue reading Union of Krewo (Act of Kreva)
Ibrahim ibn Yaqub was a Jewish traveller and merchant from Ṭurṭūšah (Tortosa), a city in North-Eastern Spain, which, at that time, was a part of the Caliphate of Córdoba. He was supposed to have been involved in a slave trade. He visited many European countries, where he would write down, apart from the information that were useful in… Continue reading Ibrahim Ibn Yaqub’s account of his journey to Slavic states
