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The Congress Poland is an unofficial term for the Kingdom of Poland ( 1815 - 1831 ) resting under Russian rule, a political entity which was created out of the Duchy Of Warsaw at the Congress Of Vienna in 1815, when European powers reorganised Europe following the Napoleonic War s. It had an area of roughly 127 000 km&2 (compared with over 1 million km&2 of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ) and a population of approximately 2,600,000 (in 1814 ) (compared with approximately 10 million Commonwealth citizens). Congress Poland largely emerged as a result of the efforts of ) and Polish Szlachta deeply valued personal freedom, which made the autocratic and absolute rule alleged to have been demanded by Russia difficult to establish {Link without Title} . |