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The Swedish dynasty on the Polish throne
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The Sigismundian Column, monument to Zygmunt III, Warsaw |
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| election after Batory's death went to the grandson of Sigismund I, Sigismund Vasa of Sweden, the first king of the Vasa dynasty on the throne of Poland. The Vasas - Sigismund III, Vladislaus IV, and Ioannes Casimirus (John Casimir) - ruled until 1668; and although they maintained Poland's status as an esteemed European power, they also entangled the kingdom in a series of wars, failed to prevent a civil war in Ukraine and tolerated the growth of the magnates' power.
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