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in the early 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party officials , policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland ?
out of three partitions of Poland , the Austrian partition
out of three partitions of Poland , the Russian partition
though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end , the number of its provincial governors offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
in the Polish-Austrian War War of the Fifth Coalition , Polish forces under Józef Antoni Poniatowski neutralized an Austrian force twice their size and liberated most of the Austrian-held Polish territory ?
among the founding members of Philomathes Imperial University of Vilna in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - was Adam Mickiewicz , one of the three national poets of Poland ?
Three Emperors' Corner tripoint between the Austrian Empire , German Empire and the Russian Empire , created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland ?
Walerian Łukasiński 19th century Polish Army officer , was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire , and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions ?
Union for Active Struggle paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence , with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire ?
after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland , the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński
neoclassical Staszic Palace Warsaw was temporarily given a Russo-Byzantine redesign upon Poland 's partition ?
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Question 1 : After his defeat and
the implementation of the ________ treaty in 1815,
the Russian-dominated Congress Kingdom of Poland was created
in its place.
Question 2 : In February, 1772, the agreement of partition was signed in ________ .
Question 3 : the 1939 division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union pursuant to the ________ .
Question 4 : In 1793, deputies to the Grodno Sejm , last ________ of the
Commonwealth, in the presence of the Russian forces, agreed to
Russian territorial demands.
Question 5 : After the rising of 1863 , ________ of
Polish secondary schools was imposed and the literacy rate dropped dramatically.
Question 6 :
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Question 7 : These
territories had been a bone of contention between Poland and ________ .
Question 8 :
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