[citation needed] In 1245, in Wrocław, Polish friars Benedict of Poland and C. de Bridia joined Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in his journey to the seat of Güyük Khan.

[1] After the division of the Mongol Empire and the fall of its successor hordes in Eastern Europe, Mongol-Polish contacts became scarce given the separating distance.

As a result, several Polish deportees from the Russian Partition of Poland visited Mongolia in the 19th century, including orientalist Józef Kowalewski, geologist Aleksander Czekanowski and naturalist Benedykt Dybowski (for more, see Polish–Mongolian literary relations).

Michał Aleksander Wołłosowicz then organized a modern custom office in Mongolia, and in 1921 he became an envoy of Poland in Urga.

[3] In both countries the Soviet Union eventually installed communist regimes, resulting in vast repressions of its citizens.

[12] The Polish Armed Forces take part in the annual Khaan Quest military exercise in Mongolia.