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Vistulan Country (Russian: Привислинский Край, Privislinskiy Kray; Polish: Kraj Przywiślański) was the name for the lands of Congress Poland incorporated into Imperial Russia after the defeat of the November Uprising (1830-31). It also continued to be informally known as Russian Poland

It consisted of 10 guberniyas: Сувалкская (Suvalskaya), Ломжинская (Lomzhinskaya), Плоцкая (Plotskaya), Седлецкая (Sedletskaya) and Люблинская (Lublinskaya) by the right side of the Vistula River,and the remaining 5 by the l;eft side: Калишская (Kalishskaya), Варшавская (Varshavskaya), Петроковская (Petrokovskaya), Радомская (Radomskaya) and Келецкая (Keletskaya).

After 1837 all voivodeships that constituted the Kingdom of Poland were turned into gubernias and became an integral part of Russia, ruled directly by the Russian tsars. In 1831 the Polish Army, constitution, Sejm and local self-administration were disbanded. Also all universities were closed, only to be reopened several years later as purely-Russian high schools.

Initially the territory maintained certain degree of autonomy than other gubernias. The former Kingdom of Poland continued to use the Polish currency (złoty) and the Administrative Council retained some of its privileges (although it was directly controlled by the Russian governor Field Marshal Ivan Paskevich). However, by 1832 the currency and the customs border were abolished, as was the metric system and penal code. Also the Catholic Church was persecuted and most monasteries were closed and nationalised while the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church were officially banned and most of their followers were treated as Orthodox.

After the January Uprising in 1863 the Polish language was banned from office and education and the process of incorporation of the Polish gubernias and russification of its administration was completed.

The territory was a namestnichestvo until 1875 and later Governorate General.

During World War I, in 1915 the area was occupied by the Central Powers and in 1917 Russia ceded all Polish territories it possessed to Germany and Austria-Hungary, who created a puppet Kingdom of Poland there.

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