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The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition occurred in the aftermath of the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and the Targowica Confederation of 1792, and was approved by its territorial beneficiaries, the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia.
Only about 4 million people remained in Poland after the Second Partition which makes for a loss of another third of its original population, about a half of the remaining population. [15] By the Third Partition, Prussia ended up with about 23% of the Commonwealth's population, Austria with 32%, and Russia with 45%. [16]
In the First Partition, the Austrian Empire received the largest share of the Polish population, and second largest land share (83,000 km 2 and over 2.65 million people). Austria did not participate in the Second partition. In the Third Partition, Austria annexed 47,000 km 2 of territories with 1.2 million people
Second partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1793. By the 1790s the First Polish Republic had deteriorated into such a helpless condition that it was successfully forced into an alliance with its enemy, Prussia. The alliance was cemented with the Polish–Prussian Pact of 1790. [87]
New Castle in Grodno, where the Grodno Sejm took place. The Second Partition (1793) 18 new voivodeships of the partitioned Commonwealth created by Grodno Sejm Grodno Sejm (Polish: Sejm grodzieński; Lithuanian: Gardino seimas) was the last Sejm (session of parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764–1795) is concerned with the final decades of existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.The period, during which the declining state pursued wide-ranging reforms and was subjected to three partitions by the neighboring powers, coincides with the election and reign of the federation's last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski.
During the Second Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party, where Nikita Khrushchev was a special guest, a decision was made to imitate the changes introduced in the USSR. March 18 The State Council implemented the decisions of the 2nd Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party , dismissing Bolesław Bierut from the position of Prime ...
Second Partition of Poland; Third Partition of Poland; Fourth Partition of Poland; 0–9. 19th-century Catholic periodical literature; A. Subdivisions of the Polish ...