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    The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie; French: Duché de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and...
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    The Army of the Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Armia Księstwa Warszawskiego) refers to the military forces of the Duchy of Warsaw. The Army was significantly...
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    Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw was promulgated by Napoleon on 22 July 1807 in Dresden. Together with the Napoleonic Code it was a significant reform of Polish...
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    the defeat of Prussia by Napoleonic France, the Duchy of Warsaw was created by the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807. According to the Congress of Vienna, put...
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    Duchy of Cornwall Duchy of Lancaster Duchy of Anjou Duchy of Aquitaine Duchy of Berry Duchy of Bourbon Duchy of Brittany Duchy of Burgundy Duchy of Gascony...
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    of the throne of Poland in 1795 by the Sejm, he could not refuse a Polish title a second time. Article V of the Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw,...
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    The Duchy of Warsaw was a feudal district duchy in Masovia, centered on the Warsaw Land. Its capital was Warsaw. The state was established in 1310, in...
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    Warsaw Department (Polish: Departament warszawski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806–1815...
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    The Duchy of Masovia was a district principality and a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Poland, existing during the Middle Ages. The state was centered in Mazovia...
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    Subdivisions of the Duchy of Warsaw were based on departments that were headed by prefects. The subsidivions were based on the French model following the...
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    Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established when the French ceded a part of Polish territory to the Russian Empire following...
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    A grand duchy is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess. Prior to...
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    Berek Joselewicz (category Polish recipients of the Legion of Honour)
    following the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. From 1807 he fought in various battles in Poland. He was killed in the Battle of Kock in 1809 during...
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    Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. The...
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    most of Napoleon's campaigns, from the West Indies, through Italy and Egypt. When the Duchy of Warsaw was created in 1807, many of the veterans of the...
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    It was a remnant of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was partitioned among the three states after the Congress in 1815. The Free City of Cracow was an overwhelmingly...
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    Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Sejm Księstwa Warszawskiego) was the parliament of the Duchy of Warsaw. It was created in 1807 by Napoleon, who granted...
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    Swedish Pomerania, most of the Kingdom of Saxony, and the western part of the former Duchy of Warsaw. Austria gained much of northern Italy. Russia added...
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  • Naples in 1799. Nominally the Holy Roman Empire, of which the Austrian Netherlands and the Duchy of Milan were under direct Austrian rule. Also encompassed...
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    victory. The territory of Galicia has been under the Austrian Control since 1772. The creation of Duchy of Warsaw led to the idea of an armed uprising being...
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    all forces of the Duchy of Warsaw, the short-lived Polish state allied with Napoleon I of France. As one of the first recipients of the Virtuti Militari...
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    Poznań Department (category Departments of the Duchy of Warsaw)
    (Polish: Departament Poznański) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815. Capital city: Poznań...
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    West Galicia (category Historical geography of Poland)
    Galicia to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, following its defeat by Napoleon After the failed Kościuszko Uprising of 1794, Emperor Francis II of Habsburg agreed...
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  • Warsaw metropolitan area Warsaw (European Parliament constituency) Warsaw Voivodeship (disambiguation) Warszawa, Greater Poland Voivodeship Duchy of Warsaw...
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    victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition and a Polish uprising, the territory of South Prussia became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state...
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    third partition of Poland took place, thus ending the first chapter of the Senate's history. During the existence of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and the Congress...
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    the Duchy of Warsaw) and all land west of the Elbe river. France recaptured Prussian-occupied Hanover, including Bremen-Verden. The remainder of the kingdom...
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    New East Prussia (category History of Mazovia)
    Płock Department and the remainder of the Białystok Department (Łomża Department) became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state New East Prussia...
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    Łomża Department (category Departments of the Duchy of Warsaw)
    was an administrative division and local government in the Polish Duchy of Warsaw in the years 1807–15. The department comprised 10 counties and had...
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    division of the Duchy of Warsaw at the Congress of Vienna; the 1832 incorporation of the "Congress Kingdom" into Russia, the 1846 incorporation of the Republic...
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