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"The deputy from Lehistan has not arrived yet" (Polish: poseł Lechistanu jeszcze nie przybył) is a line from an urban legend in Poland, supposedly announced during diplomatic corps being received by the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, as a response response to chief of protocol supposedly asking "Where is the deputy from Lehistan?". It is said to be done as a protest to the partition of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. The story is widely questioned by historians as no record of such habit has been found, and originated from the fact that the Ottoman Empire did not recognize the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The oldest known written records of the story come from the 1930s and 1940s, and are attributed to Michał Sokolnicki, an ambassador of Poland to Turkey, who used to tell it during diplomatic meetings.[1][2][3]
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ptwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Sokolnicki, Michał: Polityka Piłsudskiego a Turcja, vol. 6. Niepodległość. London: Wydawn. Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego Poświęconego Badaniu Najnowszej Historii Polski, 1958.
- ^ "Turcja. Państwo, które nigdy nie uznało rozbiorów Rzeczypospolitej". twojahistoria.pl (in Polish). 23 February 2018.