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Also Known As Ksiestwo Warszawskie • Duché de Varsovie • Warszawskie • Grand Duchy of Warsaw • Grand-Duché de Varsovie
Date 1807 - 1815

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Map showing the territory of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1812, highlighted in pink in central Europe. The area includes present-day cities such as Warsaw, Lublin, and Krakow, with surrounding major cities like Gdansk, Vienna, Budapest, Vilnius, Minsk, and Kyiv also marked for reference. Major rivers such as the Vistula, Bug, and Dnieper are labeled.
Napoleon and the Polish Duchy of Warsaw
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Treaties of Tilsit

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Henryk Dembiński
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