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The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie; French: Duché de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw [1] and Napoleonic Poland, [2] was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Duchy of Poland – 1000: Kingdom of Poland – 1097: Kingdom of Poland – 1190: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – 1714: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – 1789: Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772: Duchy of Warsaw – 1812: Congress Poland – 1815: Second Polish Republic – 1930: General Government – 1942: Polish People's ...
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The Congress Kingdom of Poland was created out of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state, at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 when the great powers reorganized Europe following the Napoleonic wars. The kingdom was created from parts of the Polish territory that had been partitioned between Austria and Prussia which had been transformed into ...
The Duchy of Warsaw was a Polish state established by Napoleon in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit. The duchy was held in personal union by one of Napoleon's allies, King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. [91]
The map of the political division of Masovia between 1313 and 1345, ... The Duchy of Warsaw [a] was a feudal district duchy in Masovia, centered on the Warsaw Land.
Administrative division of Duchy of Warsaw, 1810-1815. Subdivisions of the Duchy of Warsaw were based on departments that were headed by prefects. The subsidivions were based on the French model following the erection of the Duchy of Warsaw by Napoleon. The departments were in turn subdivided into traditional Polish powiats (counties).
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it was divided between the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen and Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire. The General Directory records dealing with the history and genealogy of the Prussian part of Poland were taken from the Prussian archives by Napoleon Bonaparte soon after 1806 and transferred to Warsaw.