Third Partition of Poland

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The Third Partition of Poland or Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1795 as the third and last of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Contents 1 Background 2 Partition 3 Aftermath 4 See also 5 Further reading 6 External links

[edit] Background

After the Second Partition of Poland of 1793, Kościuszko Uprising occurred. Kosciuszko's ragtag insurgent armies won some initial successes, but they eventually fell before the superior forces of Russian Empire.

The partitioning powers, seeing the increasing unrest in the remaining Commonwealth, decided to solve the problem by erasing any independent Polish state from the map. On 24 October 1795 their representatives signed a treaty, dividing the remaining territories of the Commonwealth between their three countries.

[edit] Partition

The Russian part included 120,000 km² and 1.2 million people with Wilno, the Prussian part (new provinces of New East Prussia and New Silesia) 55,000 km² and 1 million people with Warsaw, and the Austrian part 47,000km² with 1.2 million and Lublin and Kraków.

[edit] Aftermath

See aftermath of the partitions of Poland.

[edit] See also

• Administrative division of Polish-Lithuanian territories after partitions

[edit] Further reading

• Tadeusz Cegielski, Łukasz Kądziela, Rozbiory Polski 1772-1793-1795, Warszawa 1990

[edit] External links

• The Period of Partitions (1772-1918) - resources