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Congress Poland [a] or Congress Kingdom of Poland, [3] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, [b] was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw.
Congress Poland. Polish: Królestwo Polskie, Królestwo Kongresowe, or Kongresówka. Date: 1815 - 1863. Major Events: Congress of Vienna. January Insurrection. November Insurrection. Key People: Adam Jerzy, Prince Czartoryski. Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich. Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich, Graf Yerevansky, Knyaz Varshchavsky.
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Learn about the historical changes and variations of the administrative divisions of Congress Poland, a former Polish state under Russian rule. See maps and lists of the governorates, voivodeships, powiats and gminas that existed in different periods.
After the Congress of Vienna, Russia had organized its Polish lands as the Congress Poland, granting it a quite liberal constitution, its own army, and limited autonomy within the tsarist empire. In the 1820s, however, Russian rule grew more arbitrary, and secret societies were formed by intellectuals in several cities to plot an ...
Congress Poland was a Polish state created in 1815 by decision of Congress of Vienna as personal union with Russia. It existed until 1915, when it was lost to Germany during WWI.
Learn about the 123 years of Poland's partition by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and the struggles of the Polish nation to regain its independence. Explore the role of Napoleon, the Duchy of Warsaw, and the Polish legions in the 19th-century European politics.
Congress Poland was a historical Polish state created in 1815 by decision of Congress of Vienna as personal union with Russia.
