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Józef Piłsudski has been awarded numerous honours, domestic and foreign.

Polish National honours

National honours

Order of the White Eagle (1921)
Order of Virtuti Militari
- Knight's Cross
- Commander's Cross
- Grand Cross
Cross of Independence with Swords (6 November 1930)
Order of Polonia Restituta
- Commander's Cross with Star
- Grand Cordon

Military honours

Cross of Valour (four times)
Gold Cross of Merit (four times, including in 1931)
Cross of Merit of the Central Lithuania Army
Cross of Silesian Merit and Valor
Officers' Badge "Parasol" (1912)
Officers' Badge "For Faithful Service" (1916)
Cross Kaniowski (1929)

Other honours

Scouting Cross (1920)
"Gold trade union" Chief Fire Brigades Union
Badge "Józef Piłsudski Polish Legion Commander" (1916)
Commemorative Badge of former prisoners from the years 1914–1921 Ideological (1928)

Foreign honours

Austria-Hungary:
- Order of the Iron Crown Class III (Austria-Hungary)
Belgium
- Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold
Bulgaria
- Order of Saint Alexander with Swords
Brazil
- Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross Class
Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovak War Cross 1918
Estonia
- Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class I (Estonia, 1930)
- Cross of Liberty
  - Grade I
  - Grade III
Finland
- Grand Cross of the White Rose of Finland with Collar
France
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, No. 25864 (continuous numbering) and the Médaille militaire
Spain
- Grand Cross – Yellow Decoration of the Order of Military Merit
Japan
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Order of the Karađorđe's Star
Latvia
- Order of Lāčplēsis, Class I
SMOM
- Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Class IV
Portugal
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword
Kingdom of Romania
- Collar of the Order of Carol I
- Order of Michael the Brave, Classes I, II and III (Romania)
Hungary
- Grand Cross of Merit
Kingdom of Italy
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy

Honorary doctorates

Jagiellonian University (28 April 1920)
Adam Mickiewicz University (11 November 1933)
University of Warsaw (2 May 1921)
Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (September 1921)

References

"Pilsudski v. Daszynski". Time. 11 November 1929. Archived from the original on 15 August 2009.
Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 368.
Piłsudski, Józef (1989). Urbankowski, Bohdan (ed.). Myśli, mowy i rozkazy (in Polish). Warsaw: Kwadryga. p. 281. ISBN 978-83-85082-01-9.