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    Grodno (Russian: Гродно [ˈɡrodnə]; Polish: Grodno [ˈɡrɔdnɔ] ) or Hrodna (Belarusian: Гродна, IPA: [ˈɣrɔdna]) is a city in western Belarus. It is one of...
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  • Silent Sejm (Polish: Sejm Niemy; Lithuanian: Nebylusis seimas), also known as the Mute Sejm, is the name given to the session of the Sejm parliament of...
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    Naujoji pilis) in Grodno, Belarus is a royal palace of Augustus III of Poland and Stanisław August Poniatowski where the famous Grodno Sejm took place in...
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    Voivodeship, also called the Duchy of Inflanty, due to a 1667 bill of the Sejm, was the minority remainder of the Duchy of Livonia, which had been conquered...
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    The Duchy of Livonia, tied to Lithuania in real union since the Union of Grodno (1566), became a Polish–Lithuanian condominium. The Commonwealth was ruled...
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    Constitution of 3 May 1791 (category Great Sejm)
    than 19 months. It was declared null and void by the Grodno Sejm that met in 1793, though the Sejm's legal power to do so was questionable. The Second and...
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    Stanisław August Poniatowski (category Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    intimidated by the Russian troops, the Grodno Sejm took place. On 23 November 1793, it annulled all acts of the Great Sejm, including the Constitution. Faced...
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    entered the Commonwealth and the partition treaty was signed during the Grodno Sejm on January 23, 1793 (without Austria). The Third Partition took place...
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    Permanent Council (category Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    Council was eliminated in 1789 by the Four-Year Sejm and briefly reinstated in 1793 by the Sejm of Grodno. However, this time it was directly headed by...
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    the Te Deum laudamus. This was breaching the agreements of the Union of Grodno (1432) and terminating the Polish–Lithuanian union. It manifested Lithuania...
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    to sign an accommodation favorable to Russian interests, at the Silent Sejm (Sejm Niemy). For the remainder of his reign, in an uneasy relationship, Augustus...
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    Jabłonna Palace in Jabłonna Palace in Kozienice Manor house Stanisławówka in Grodno Ruins of the palace in Wołczyn Thursday Dinners No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron...
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    of Kraków and Vilnius, the Union of Vilnius and Radom and the Union of Grodno. Lithuania's vulnerable position and rising tensions on its eastern flank...
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    arrange for formalities necessary to legalize the fait accompli. A sejm was summoned to Grodno to do that and to organize the diminished state. The deputies...
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    election of their favoured candidates at local sejmiks. At the Grodno Sejm, the last Sejm of the Commonwealth, any deputies who opposed the Russian presence...
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    Voivodeships of Poland as well as southwestern Lithuania and a small part of the Grodno District of Belarus. The Kingdom of Poland effectively came to an end with...
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  • (Wschowa) on 13 February 1706. The army assembled in Polotsk had been moved to Grodno where it was tactically defeated and forced to withdraw eastwards around...
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    Piotr Ożarowski (category Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    the Warsaw's garrison as well as of the Lesser Poland division. At the Grodno Sejm he supported the Second Partition of Poland and in 1793 he was nominated...
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    extraterritorial corridor to connect its exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast with Grodno in Belarus. Poland, Lithuania and the EU did not consent. Movement of goods...
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    An important strategic success for the Polish side was the capture of Grodno on April 28, 1919, from which the Germans withdrew. After that Polish troops...
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    the Te Deum laudamus. This was breaching the agreements of the Union of Grodno (1432) and terminating the Polish–Lithuanian union. It manifested Lithuania...
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    intimidated by the Russian troops, a new session of parliament, known as the Grodno Sejm, took place in fall 1793. On 23 November 1793, it concluded its deliberations...
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    1793, Prussia and Russia signed the Second Partition of Poland. The Grodno Sejm, convened under duress in June, ratified the partition and was also forced...
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    Antoni Tyzenhauz (category Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    science, culture and art, founder of midwifery school and medical school in Grodno]. Przegląd Urologiczny 2022/2, S. 82–86. Venclova, Tomas (2006). Vilniaus...
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    Russian Army). In the aftermath of the Polish–Russian War of 1792, at the Grodno Sejm that legalized the Second Partition of Poland, he argued that "If not...
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    advocating the continuation of military struggle against the occupiers. The Grodno Sejm, held in the fall of 1793, nominated him for a membership in a military...
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    promised also from the Commission of National Education, and the Sejm (Parliament) in Grodno. This notwithstanding, sometimes Clement-Mary Hofbauer had to...
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    krośnieńskim, nowosądeckim i siedleckim oraz nadania statutu miasta". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 2021-06-04. Gerald Schernewski (13 May 2002). Baltic Coastal...
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  • incapable of an independent existence. The Commonwealth's Grodno Sejm of 1793, the last Sejm of the state's existence, was compelled to confirm the new...
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    characterized by the sovereign's power being reduced by laws and the legislature (Sejm), which was controlled by the nobility (szlachta). This system was a precursor...
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