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Ladislaus II

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2020
Entity authorityQ1060341 ↗
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Ladislaus II (also spelled Vladislav II or Władysław II) may refer to:

Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), Duke of Poland and Silesia

Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131–1163), king of Hungary from 1162 to 1163

Vladislaus II of Bohemia (died 1174), second king of Bohemia

Vladislav II of Serbia (c. 1280–1325), Serbian monarch

Władysław II of Opole (c. 1332–1401), Duke of Opole

Wladyslaw II Jagiello, a.k.a. Jogaila (1351–1434), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland

Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (1456–1516), King of Bohemia and King of Hungary

Vladislav II of Wallachia, Prince of Wallachia (d.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1105, 1159, 1131, 1163—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ladislaus, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ladislaus II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.