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Pre-partition border seizures
- When
- 1769–1771
- Where
- Commonwealth borderlands
- Part of
- First Partition of Poland
Before the partition, Austria and Prussia seized Commonwealth border territories in 1769–1771, including the Szepes towns and Lauenburg and Bütow.
Between 1769 and 1771, Austria and Prussia had already taken over some border territories of the Commonwealth. Austria took the Eldership of Spisz, Czorsztyn, Stary Sącz and Nowy Targ in 1769–1770, having annexed thirteen Polish-held towns in the Hungarian Szepes region in 1769 in violation of the Treaty of Lubowla. Prussia incorporated Lauenburg and Bütow.
Sources
- First Partition of Poland Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-29
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