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Also Known As Królestwo Kongresowe • Congress Poland • Kingdom of Poland • Kongresówka
Date 1815 - 1863

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Map highlighting the territory of the Congress Kingdom of Poland, a Russian-ruled Polish state from 1815 to 1874, shaded in pink and centered around Warsaw and Lublin. The map also shows the locations of present-day cities such as Krakow, Gdansk, Vilnius, Minsk, Kyiv, Vienna, and Moscow, along with major rivers and the Baltic Sea.
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