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Poland
Index
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Figure 5. The First Partition of Poland, 1772
Figure 6. The Second Partition of Poland, 1793
Figure 7. The Third Partition of Poland, 1795
Figure 8. Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-13, and Congress Poland, 1815
Although the majority of the szlachta was
reconciled
to the end of the commonwealth in 1795, the possibility of
Polish
independence was kept alive by events within and outside
Poland
throughout the nineteenth century. Poland's location in
the very
center of Europe became especially significant in a period
when
both Prussia/Germany and Russia were intensely involved in
European rivalries and alliances and modern nation states
took
form over the entire continent.
Data as of October 1992
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