Polonezköy

It is said that at the official ceremonies where foreign envoys were received at the Ottoman court, one name was read out every time: “The envoy of Lehistan!” And every time, the same reply came: “The envoy of Lehistan has not yet arrived…” Yet Lehistan, that is Poland, had been partitioned by its neighbors at the end of the 18th century and erased from the map. The Ottomans, however, never recognized this partition.