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Article: Baptist origins in Poland.
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- January 1, 2007
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Baptists began in Poland when no independent Poland existed.
Through several partitions, Poland's neighbors--Russia, Prussia, and Austria--each took a share of its territory. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars and at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Russia created a Kingdom of Poland (known also as Congress Poland) with the Russian czar as its ruler. Although a number of Poles lived outside its boundaries, the kingdom, however, included the majority of the Polish people and included Warsaw, its historic capital. The kingdom was given a comparatively liberal constitution, including an assembly. (1)
In the Polish uprising of 1830-31, Russia took full control ...