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The deputy from Lehistan has not arrived yet
Line from an urban legend in Poland
The deputy from Lehistan has not arrived yet
"The deputy from Lehistan has not arrived yet" (Polish: poseł Lechistanu jeszcze nie przybył, Turkish: Lehistan sefiri yoldadır) 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 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.
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