Publication of Poland Is Not Yet Lost

Poland Is Not Yet Lost, also known as Dabrowski's Mazurka, is the national anthem of Poland. Its words were written in July 1797 in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy by Jozef Wybicki, a Polish poet and politician serving with the Polish Legions that fought alongside Napoleonic France under General Jan Henryk Dabrowski. Poland had been wiped from the map by the partitions of the late eighteenth century, and the song expressed the hope that the nation would survive as long as its people lived and fought. It was set to the melody of a traditional mazurka dance. The song spread through the Polish lands and was sung in uprisings in the nineteenth century. It was officially adopted as the national anthem in 1926.

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