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Przybysław Dyjamentowski (1694–1774) was a notable
Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
documents
forger Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally consists of the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud. Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidden by law in some jurisdict ...
and writer. In his lifetime he prepared several "ancient" chronicles, diplomas and
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for sale. Dyjamentowski's forgeries were not always recognised as such, although they are now regarded as entirely
pseudohistorical Pseudohistory is a form of pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often by employing methods resembling those used in scholarly historical research. The related term cryptohistory is applied to pseudoh ...
, and have at times been influential, even in the twenty-first century among a minority of
Polish nationalists Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
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Prokosz Chronicle

One of Dyjamentowski's best known works is the , also known as the ''Slavic-Sarmatian Chronicle'', which gained much popularity as one of the earliest mentions of Poland (dated to 936). The forged chronicle was first published in 1825 by . The chronicle was supposed to stretch back the existence of Poland as an independent nation by a few generations beyond the accepted start of the
Piast dynasty The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented List of Polish monarchs, Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I of Poland, Mieszko I (–992). The Poland during the Piast dynasty, Piasts' royal rule in Pol ...
and support a connection between mediaeval Poles and ancient
Sarmatians The Sarmatians (; ; Latin: ) were a large confederation of Ancient Iranian peoples, ancient Iranian Eurasian nomads, equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic–Caspian steppe, Pontic steppe from about the 5th century BCE to the 4t ...
and peoples of
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See also

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Sarmatism Sarmatism (or Sarmatianism; ; ) was an ethno-cultural identity within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was the dominant Baroque culture and ideology of the nobility () that existed in the time from the Renaissance to the early 18th ce ...


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1694 births 1774 deaths Forgers Polish criminals Polish nobility Polish male writers 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian writers {{Crime-bio-stub