 vistula landthe name of the kingdom was changed to vistula land, which was reduced to a tsarist province; it lost all autonomy and separate administrative institutions. richard c. frucht, eastern europe: an introduction to the people, lands, and culture. 2005the name of the territory, which had been congress poland, was changed to the more innocuous vistula land. vistula land was administered by russians; alison fleig frank, oil empire: visions of prosperity in austrian galicia , 2005 or vistula countrythe name of poland ceased to be used by the russian authorities, who designated the region once occupied by the kingdom as the "vistula country", john clark ridpath: ridpath's history of the world: being an account of the principal events in ... 1910 (, privislinsky krai; ) was the name applied to the lands of the congress poland following the defeats of the november uprising (1830â31) and january uprising (1863-1864) as it was increasingly stripped of autonomy and incorporated into imperial russia. it also continued to be informally known as russian poland or the russian partition. ==history== in 1831, in the aftermath of the november uprising, the polish army, the constitution of the kingdom of poland, its parliament (sejm) and local self-administration were disbanded. the constitution was replaced by the much less liberal and never fully implemented organic statute of the kingdom of poland. also all universities were closed, only to be reopened several years later as purely russian-language high schools. for a short time the territory maintained certain degree of autonomy. the former kingdom of poland continued to use the polish currency (zÅoty) 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 the polish penal code (which was replaced by the russian penal code, de facto in use since the uprising begun). also the catholic church 
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