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Also known as cavalry banner, banner (cavalry)

300px|right|thumb|"Chorągiew Pancerni|pancerna of [[rotmistrz Józef Hulewicz" painted by Wojciech Kossak]]

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Vinony's link graph records 69 inbound references to chorągiew, and connects out to International Standard Book Number, military and Tatars.

It is catalogued under topics including Military history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Polish cavalry.

Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.

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squadron
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cavalry
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  • 14th to 17th centuries
  • 15th century (2nd half) to 18th century (1st half)
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300px|right|thumb|"Chorągiew Pancerni|pancerna of [[rotmistrz Józef Hulewicz" painted by Wojciech Kossak]]

Chorągiew (; literally: "banner") was the basic administrative unit of the Polish and Lithuanian cavalry from the 14th century. An alternative name until the 17th century was rota.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chorągiew” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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