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Congress Poland

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Congress Poland

(historical) The Kingdom of Poland created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland until 1832.

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Examples

After the Uprising, Congress Poland was downgraded in official usage from the "Kingdom of Poland" to the " Vistula Land " and was more fully integrated into Russia proper, but not entirely obliterated. Source: Internet

A detailed tsarist Russian census, even at the late date of 1897, showed that nearly 75% of the Jews of Congress Poland (that is, Warsaw-area ethnographic Poland) were employed in either industry or trade. Source: Internet

The German Confederation and Congress Poland are created and the neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Source: Internet

In Russian Congress Poland, a striking growth of industry, railways and towns was taking place, all against the background of an extensive, but less productive agriculture. Source: Internet

Probably 75% or more of them originated from Congress Poland, with the balance coming directly from other regions such as East and West Prussia, Pomerania, Posen, Württemberg, and Galicia among others. Source: Internet

Riasonovsky p.308 In 1831 Nicholas crushed a major uprising in Congress Poland ; it would be followed by another large-scale Polish and Lithuanian revolt in 1863. Source: Internet

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