Regency Council

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The Regency Council was a provisional governing body that exercised monarchical authority in the Kingdom of Poland during World War I until Poland regained full independence.

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Label Occurrences
Regency Council canonical 3
Regency Council 1918 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf collective head of state
political institution
provisional governing body
aimedTo prepare the creation of an independent Polish monarchy
restore Polish statehood
appliesToJurisdiction Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
appointed Polish governments
prime ministers of the Kingdom of Poland
capital Warsaw
contextOfFormation Act of 5th November 1916
country Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
dateOfTransferOfPower 1918-11-11
dissolved 1918-11-11
endTime 1918-11-11
establishedBy Austro-Hungarian Empire
surface form: Austria-Hungary

German Empire
followedBy Second Polish Republic
office of the Chief of State of Poland
governmentForm constitutional monarchy (nominal)
hasRole exercising monarchical authority
head of state of the Kingdom of Poland
provisional government
headquartersLocation Warsaw
historicalRegion Congress Poland
inception 1917-09-12
issued decrees with force of law
legislativeBody Council of State of the Kingdom of Poland
location Warsaw
member Aleksander Kakowski
Józef Ostrowski
Zdzisław Lubomirski
nativeName Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland
surface form: Rada Regencyjna Królestwa Polskiego
numberOfMembers 3
officialLanguage Polish
operatedInTheTerritoryOf Poland
partOf Regency Kingdom of Poland
precededBy German and Austro-Hungarian military occupation authorities in Poland
reasonForDissolution proclamation of independent Polish state
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholicism (dominant among members)
replacedBy Józef Piłsudski
surface form: Józef Piłsudski as Chief of State
significantEvent World War I
startTime 1917-09-12
temporalContext World War I
transferredPowerTo Józef Piłsudski
typeOfMonarchicalAuthority regency
usedTitle Rada Regencyjna

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Regency Kingdom headOfStateTitle Regency Council
Regency Kingdom hadInstitution Regency Council
Zdzisław Lubomirski termEnd Regency Council
this entity surface form: Regency Council 1918