Polonia (personification)

Polonia, the name for Poland in Latin and many Romance and other languages, is most often used in modern Polish as referring to the Polish diaspora. However, as can be seen from the image, it was also used as a national personification.

The symbolic depiction of a country as a woman called by the Latin name of that country was common in the 19th Century (see Germania, Britannia, Hibernia, Helvetia).

Personification of Poland standing on the shoulders of a pope and a king; from a 16th-century political treatise by Stanisław Orzechowski

Polonia by Bernardo Morando (1588). Bas-relief at the top of the Old Lublin Gate in Zamość

Bas-relief on monument in Lublin commemorating the 1569 union between Poland and Lithuania, Paweł Maliński (1826)

Polonia by Ary Scheffer (1831). Allegory of fall of the November Uprising

Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski by Jacek Malczewski (1903). The female figures symbolize young revolutionary Poland and old enslaved Poland

Allegory of Dead Poland by Włodzimierz Tetmajer (1909)

Polonia depicted on a Polish 10 Złoty coin of 1932

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