Poland

Tapestry with the heraldic arms of Poland and Lithuania.  Brussels c. 1560.

This tapestry housed in Wawel, Krakow is of the time when the nations of Poland and Lithuania were combined as one country, commonly known as the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.  The Commonwealth was a multi-religious and multi-ethnic state from 1569-1795 when Poland's neighbors (the empires of Prussia, Russia, and Austria) partitioned the nation out of existence, each taking part of the country for themselves.

The land that would make up the Commonwealth today is part of the following ten modern countries: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.