Question: What was the royal title of the man whose German government backed the colonization of Poland by German settlers, one ofthe factors leading to the plight of rural Poland which was the focus of the novel The Outpost?

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Barossa Valley (wine): The Barossa Valley wine region is one of Australia's oldest wine regions.  Located in South Australia, the Barossa Valley is about 56 km (35 miles) northeast of the city of Adelaide.  Unlike most of Australia whose wine industry was heavily influenced by the British, the wine industry of the Barossa Valley was founded by German settlers fleeing persecution from the Prussian province of Silesia (in what is now Poland).  The hot continental climate of the region promoted the production of very ripe grapes that was the linchpin of the early Australian fortified wine industry.  As the modern Australian wine industry shifted towards red table wines (particularly those made by the prestigious Cabernet Sauvignon) in the mid-20th century, the Barossa Valley fell out of favor due to its reputation for being largely a Syrah from producers whose grapes were destined for blending.  During this period the name "Barossa Valley" rarely appeared on wine labels.  In the 1980s, the emergence of several boutique families specializing in old vine Shiraz wines began to capture international attention for the distinctive style of Barossa Shiraz, a full bodied red wine with rich chocolate and spice notes.  This led to a renaissance in the Barossa Valley which catapulted the region to the forefront of the Australian wine industry.

Act of 5th November: The Act of 5th November of 1916 was a declaration of Emperors Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz Joseph of Austria.  This act promised the creation of the Kingdom of Poland out of territory of Congress Poland, envisioned by its authors as a puppet state controlled by the Central Powers.  The origin of that document was the dire need to draft new recruits from German-occupied Poland for the war with Russia.  Even though the act itself expressed very little in concrete terms, its declaration is regarded as one of main factors in the Polish efforts to regain independence.  Despite official statements, the German Empire really planned to annex up to 35,000 km² of prewar Congress Poland, with ethnic cleansing of between 2 and 3 million Poles and Jews out of these territories to make room for German settlers.

German Namibians: German Namibians (German: "Deutschnamibier" ) are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia.  In 1883, the German trader Adolf Lüderitz bought (from a local chief) what would become the southern coast of Namibia and founded the city of Lüderitz.  The German government, eager to gain overseas possessions, annexed the territory soon after, naming it South West Africa (German: "Deutsch-Südwestafrika" ).  Small numbers of Germans subsequently immigrated there, many coming as soldiers (German: "Schutztruppe" ), traders, diamond miners, or colonial officials.  In 1915, during the course of World War I, Germany lost Southwest Africa (see History of Namibia); after the war, the former colony became a South African mandate.  The German settlers were allowed to remain and, until independence in 1990, German remained an official language of the territory.

The Outpost (Prus novel): The Outpost (Polish title: "Placówka") was the first of four major novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus.  The author, writing in a Poland that had been partitioned a century earlier by Russia, Prussia and Austria, sought to bring attention to the plight of rural Poland, which had to contend with poverty, ignorance, neglect by the country's upper crust, and colonization by German settlers backed by Otto von Bismarck's German government.

German Guatemalan: A German Guatemalan is a citizen of Guatemala whose ancestors were German settlers (along with other settlers from Belgium) who arrived in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Guatemala had a massive immigration of Germans in the nineteenth century, the government of Justo Rufino Barrios these immigrants they were provided farmlands of coffee in the departments of Quetzaltenango, Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz, but by the early twentieth century came Germans in Guatemala City, Zacapa and Jutiapa, in these regions there are many descendants of these German people.  Guatemala currently has a strong community of Germans who make up the majority of European immigrants in the country, is also the most numerous German community in all Central American countries.

Dakota Freie Presse: The Dakota Freie Presse (English: Dakota Free Press ), abbreviated DFP, was a weekly German language newspaper printed in Yankton, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota).  It circulated in the Dakotas and other states, Canada, and Europe, from 1874 to 1954.  The newspaper was non-denominational and neutral in politics.  The focus of the paper was on Germans from Russia; German settlers in Russian colonies around the Black Sea and, to a lesser degree, along the Volga River; and subsequent settlers in the Dakotas in the United States.  The "Dakota Freie Presse" was published first only in German, but it later began publishing in English.

Otto von Bismarck: Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck (] ), was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890.  In the 1860s, he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership.  With that accomplished by 1871, he skillfully used balance of power diplomacy to maintain Germany's position in a Europe which, despite many disputes and war scares, remained at peace.  For historian Eric Hobsbawm, it was Bismarck who "remained undisputed world champion at the game of multilateral diplomatic chess for almost twenty years after 1871, [and] devoted himself exclusively, and successfully, to maintaining peace between the powers".  However, his annexation of Alsace-Lorraine gave new fuel to French nationalism and promoted Germanophobia in France.  This helped set the stage for the First World War.

Hegewald (colony): Hegewald was a short-lived German colony during World War II, situated near Zhytomyr in Reichskommissariat Ukraine.  It was repopulated in late 1942 and early 1943 by the ethnically German settlers classified as "Volksdeutsche"; transferred from occupied territories of Poland, Croatia, Bessarabia, and the Soviet Union to an area earmarked for the projected Germanization of the Ukrainian lands.  The plans were prepared months in advance by the SS, RKFDV and VoMi, but major problems with supplies occurred right from the region's initial establishment.  Heinrich Himmler's original plans to recruit settlers from Scandinavia and the Netherlands were unsuccessful.

List of heads of state of Poland: After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile was formed under the protection of France and Britain.  The President of the Republic and the government-in-exile were recognized by the United Kingdom and, later, by the United States until 6 July 1945, when the Western Allies accepted the Communist-led government backed by Stalin.  Despite having lost recognition by other governments, the government-in-exile continued in London until the election of Lech Wałęsa as President of the Republic of Poland in December 1990 - when it handed over its formal powers and the insignia of the Polish Second Republic to President-elect Walesa in a ceremony at the Warsaw Royal Castle on 22 December 1990.

Abbas Ali Meerza: Syed Mohammed Abbas Ali Meerza (born 1942) is the heir of the last Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad.  He has been so since the Supreme Court of India declared him to be the lawful heir in August 2014.  The royal title had been in abeyance since the death of his maternal uncle Waris Ali Meerza (the third Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad) in 1969.  All the royal title such as Nawab have been abolished by the government of India in 1971.

Supporting paragraphs: The Outpost (Prus novel) Otto von Bismarck
Answer: Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg