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Third Partition of Poland

1795 · 18th century · Also known as Third Partition

The Third Partition of Poland was the final division of the remaining territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth among Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1795. It followed the defeat of Tadeusz Kościuszko's insurrection of 1794. Accounts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth treat it as the end of the state, which ceased to exist as an independent polity until Polish independence was restored in 1918.

Third Partition of Poland
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Grand Duchy of LithuaniaDuchy of SiewierzDuchy of Courland and SemigalliaDistrict of PiltenGovernorate of CourlandDuchy of Warsaw

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Third Partition of Poland. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/third-partition-of-poland
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