Grand Duchy of Posen

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The Grand Duchy of Posen was a Prussian-controlled autonomous province established after the Napoleonic era, inhabited largely by Poles and serving as a focal point of Polish national aspirations under foreign rule.

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Grand Duchy of Posen canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Prussian province
autonomous province
historical polity
abolishedDuring 1848 revolutions
surface form: Revolutions of 1848
autonomyStatus Prussian-controlled autonomous province
limited autonomy
borderedBy Brandenburg
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)
Silesia
West Prussia
capital Poznań
surface form: Posen

Poznań
commonLanguage Polish
country Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
endTime 1848
establishedAfter Napoleonic Wars
dissolution of the Duchy of Warsaw
establishedBy Congress of Vienna
ethnicMajority Poles
ethnicMinority Germans
Jews
followedBy Province of Posen
follows Duchy of Warsaw
surface form: Duchy of Warsaw (in part)

New East Prussia (in part)
South Prussia (in part)
governmentType constitutional monarchy (in personal union with Prussia)
hadInstitution Provincial Sejm in Posen
hadPolicy Germanization measures by Prussian authorities
headOfState King of Prussia
historicalRegion Greater Poland
locatedIn Central Europe
Polish lands
surface form: Poland (historical region)

Province of Posen
surface form: Province of Posen (successor region)

Prussia
monarch Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
surface form: Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William IV of Prussia
namedAfter Poznań
surface form: city of Posen (Poznań)
officialLanguage German
partOf Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
predecessorTerritory lands annexed in the Partitions of Poland
religion Judaism
Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Roman Catholicism
reorganizedAs Province of Posen
significantEvent Greater Poland Uprising of 1846 (planned, failed)
surface form: Greater Poland Uprising of 1846 (attempted)

Greater Poland Uprising of 1848
startTime 1815
wasCenterOf Polish national movement under Prussian rule
wasPartOf German Confederation
surface form: German Confederation (indirectly via Prussia)
wasSubjectOf Polish-Prussian political conflicts in the 19th century

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Duchy of Warsaw successor Grand Duchy of Posen
Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 conflictIn Grand Duchy of Posen
Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 relatedTo Grand Duchy of Posen
Crown of the Kingdom of Poland followedBy Grand Duchy of Posen
Marcus Jastrow placeOfBirth Grand Duchy of Posen
Grand Duke of Posen appliesToJurisdiction Grand Duchy of Posen
Grand Duke of Posen hasAssociatedState Grand Duchy of Posen