How did the Third Partition of Poland erase Poland from the map of Europe?

The Third Partition of Poland (1795) effectively erased the sovereign state of Poland from the map of Europe by dividing the remaining territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth among Russia, Prussia, and Austria.12

Following the suppression of the national insurrection led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, the three powers concluded treaties that partitioned the final remnants of the country. Under these agreements:13
* Russia annexed the remainder of the territory, including Courland and lands east of the Neman River.1
* Prussia acquired the rest of Mazovia, including Warsaw.13
* Austria took the remaining section of Little Poland, extending from Kraków to the Northern Bug River.1

Beyond the territorial seizure, the monarchs agreed to remove the name "Poland" from their official titles, aiming to obliterate the state's identity entirely. This division forced the Polish nation to exist under three distinct foreign regimes until the republic was finally restored in 1918.213