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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.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Second Partition (1793) 1793 Russian campaign medal. By 1790, the Commonwealth had been weakened to such a degree that it was forced into an unnatural and terminal alliance with its enemy, Prussia. The Polish–Prussian Pact of 1790 was signed. The conditions of the Pact contributed to the subsequent ...
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
The Prussian hold on Polish areas was somewhat weakened after 1807, where parts of its partition were given to the Duchy of Warsaw. [4] The power status of Prussia was dependent on hindering any form of Polish statehood [according to whom?], due to the crucial position of Wielkopolska, Silesia and West Prussia; all areas with either a Polish majority or substantial Polish population.
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 ...
Robert Howard Lord, The Second Partition of Poland: A Study in Diplomatic History, Harvard University Press, 1915 (in Polish) Henryk Kocój, Targowica i sejm grodzieński 1793 w relacjach posła pruskiego Ludwiga Buchholtza, Wydawnictwo UJ, 2004, ISBN 83-233-1840-9 (in Polish) Volumina Legum, T.X. Konstytucje Sejmu Grodzieńskiego z 1793 r.
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.