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  1. Bathory, Stephen 1533-1586. King of Poland,
  2. elected by a diet convened in 1575 and
  3. crowned in 1576. Bathory succeeded in driving
  4. the Russian troops of Ivan the Terrible out
  5. of his country. His military successes
  6. brought potential conflicts with Sweden, but
  7. he died before these developed.
  8.