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Russia. The Duchy of Prussia ( German: Herzogtum Preußen, Polish: Księstwo Pruskie, Lithuanian: Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (German: Herzogliches Preußen; Polish: Prusy Książęce) was a duchy in the region of Prussia established as a result of secularization of the Monastic Prussia, the territory that remained under the ...
The Greater Poland uprising of 1848 or Poznań Uprising ( Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1848 roku / powstanie poznańskie) was an unsuccessful military insurrection of Poles against forces of the Kingdom of Prussia, during the Revolutions of 1848. The main fighting in the Prussian Partition of Poland was concentrated in the Greater Poland ...
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( Latin: Ducatus Curlandiæ et Semigalliæ; German: Herzogtum Kurland und Semgallen; Latvian: Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste; Lithuanian: Kuršo ir Žiemgalos kunigaikštystė; Polish: Księstwo Kurlandii i Semigalii) was a duchy in the Baltic region, then known as Livonia, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominally vassal state of the Grand Duchy of ...
Civitas Schinesghe ( Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈtʃivitas skiˈnesɡe], Polish: Państwo Gnieźnieńskie ), alternatively Duchy of Poland or Principality of Poland is the historiographical name given to a polity in Central Europe, which existed during the medieval period and was the predecessor state of the Kingdom of Poland .
Rawa Voivodeship ( Polish: Województwo Rawskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 15th century until the partitions of Poland in 1795. It was part of the Greater Poland Province. Together with the Plock and Masovian Voivodeships it formed the former Duchy of Masovia .
The Polish population resisted anti-Polish policies, which included forced Germanisation and Russification, and took part in several uprisings incl. the Greater Poland uprising of 1848 and January Uprising of 1863–1864.
The Grand Duchy of Posen was established in 1815, within the modern borders of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its flag was divided horizontally into two stripes: red on the top, and white on the bottom (similar to the Indonesian flag ). Its aspect ratio of height to width was equal 2:3.
