Civitas Schinesghe

Civitas Schinesghe Państwo Gnieźnieńskie (Polish)
966–1025
Coat of arms (c. 1000)
Duchy of Poland around the year AD 1000
Capital	Gniezno
Common languages	Lechitic Old Polish
Religion	Roman Catholicism (institutional) Slavic Paganism
Government	Monarchy
Monarch
• c. 960–992	Mieszko I
• 992–1025	Bolesław I the Brave
History
• Baptism of Poland	966
• Coronation of Bolesław I the Brave	1025
Preceded by Succeeded by Polans Lechitic tribes Kingdom of Poland

Civitas Schinesghe (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈtʃivitas skiˈnesɡe], Polish: Państwo Gnieźnieńskie), alternatively Duchy of Poland or Principality of Poland is the historiographical name given to a polity in Central Europe, which existed during the medieval period and was the predecessor state of the Kingdom of Poland.