Swedish-Polish Wars

The Swedish-Polish Wars were dynastic conflicts between the Protestant Wasa in Sweden and the Catholic Wasa in Poland on the one hand, and power struggles for hegemony over the Baltic States in the 17th and 18th centuries on the other. These wars were partly regional conflicts between two powers, partly also disputes in which several powers were involved, whereby local points of friction found continuation up to the so-called Northern Wars .

In the broader sense, the Swedish-Polish Wars include:

• The Livonian War 1558–1583 (First Northern War)
• The Polish-Swedish War (1600–1629)
• The Swedish-Polish War 1655–1660 (Second Northern War)
• The Great Northern War 1700–1721 (Third Northern War)

In the narrower sense, only the conflicts mentioned in the second and third places are actually real Swedish-Polish wars. In the Livonian War there was predominantly Russia on one side and Sweden and Poland on the other. The Great Northern War was predominantly a conflict between Russia under Peter I and Sweden under Charles XII.

Poland (or the Duchy of Warsaw ) and Sweden stood on different sides in the wars of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte .