Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)

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The Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) was a semi-autonomous Polish state under Russian control established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and gradually stripped of its autonomy over the 19th century.


Statements (56)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Polish state
client state
constitutional monarchy
historical country
afterJanuaryUprisingStatus Vistula Land province of the Russian Empire
alsoKnownAs Congress Poland
Kingdom of Poland (1815–1867)
Królestwo Polskie
areaApproximate 128500 square kilometres
autonomyGraduallyReducedBy Russian Empire
borderedBy Austrian Empire
Prussia
Russian Empire
capital Warsaw
coatOfArms White Eagle of Poland with Russian imperial elements
constitution Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland (1815)
continent Europe
country Poland
createdFromTerritoriesOf Austria
Prussia
Russian Empire
currency Polish złoty
Russian ruble
endDateAsAutonomousKingdom 1867
endDateAsDistinctAdministrativeUnit 1915
establishedBy Congress of Vienna
executiveBody Council of State of the Kingdom of Poland
firstMonarch Alexander I of Russia
flagUsed white and red horizontal bicolour (de facto, later 19th century)
hadAutonomy yes (initially)
headOfStateTitle King of Poland
januaryUprisingStart 1863
legalUnionType personal union with the Russian crown
legislature Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland
majorUprising January Uprising
November Uprising
monarch Alexander I of Russia
Alexander II of Russia
Alexander III of Russia
Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas II of Russia
novemberUprisingStart 1830
officialLanguage Polish
Russian
overlordState Russian Empire
personalUnionWith Russian Empire
predecessor Duchy of Warsaw
primaryEthnicGroup Poles
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
significantMinority Germans
Jews
Russians
startDate 1815
successor Regency Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918)
Vistula Land

Referenced by (16)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Congress Poland ("Królestwo Polskie")
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) ("Królestwo Polskie")
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) ("Kingdom of Poland (1815–1867)")
alsoKnownAs
Marie Curie ("Kingdom of Poland")
Samuel Goldwyn ("Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire")
Wanda Piłsudska ("Kingdom of Poland")
placeOfBirth
Alexander I of Russia ("Kingdom of Poland")
Alexander II of Russia ("Kingdom of Poland")
monarchOf
David Ben-Gurion ("Płońsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire")
birthPlace
Rosa Luxemburg ("Kingdom of Poland (Russian Empire)")
citizenship
L. L. Zamenhof ("Kingdom of Poland")
deathPlace
Congress Poland ("Kingdom of Poland (Russian Empire)")
followedBy
Olkusz ("Kingdom of Poland")
historicalAffiliation
Poles ("Kingdom of Poland")
historicalState
Second Polish Republic
precededBy
guberniya
usedIn

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