Administrative division of Polish territories after partitions

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Partitions of Poland
Partitions of Poland

Administrative division of Polish territories after partitions is a complex issue, involving changing administrations of the territories acquired after three partitions of Poland in the late 18th century by Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire, further complicated by the changes within those states and periodic recreations of some form of Polish state itself.

This article covers the period 1772-1918 and overlaps with several articles:

[edit] Austrian partition

For more details on this topic, see Austrian partition.

Austrian Empire (known from second half of the 19th century as the Austro-Hungarian Empire) which acquired Polish territories in the First (1772) and Third (1795) Partitions of Poland, had divided former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained into:

[edit] Prussian partition

For more details on this topic, see Prussian partition.

Kingdom of Prussia (known from second half of the 19th century as German Empire) which acquired Polish territories in all three Partitions, had divided former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained into:

[edit] Russian partition

For more details on this topic, see Russian partition.

Russian Empire which acquired Polish and Lithuanian territories in all three Partitions, had divided former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained by creating or enlarging the following guberniyas:

After Congress of Vienna in 1815, Russian empire created a separate entity, the Congress Poland, out of some of the above governorates. See administrative division of Congress Poland for details.

Territories under Russian partition, not incorporated into Congress Poland, were officially known as the Western Krai, and in Poland, as the taken lands.

Western Krai was made of the following lands of the Commonwealth:

It consisted of 9 guberniyas: 6 Belarusian and Lithuanian ones that constituted the Northwestern Krai (Vilna Governorate, Kovno Governorate, Grodno Governorate, Minsk Governorate,Mogilev Governorate and Vitebsk Governorate) and 3 Ukrainian ones that constituted the Southwestern Krai (Volhynia Governorate, Podolia Governorate and Kiev Governorate).

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