What was one of the lands that Emilia Plater was a noblewoman of, according to the partition?
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
British Empire
Answer
Emilia Plater was a Polish noblewoman. She was born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was partitioned into the Russian Empire, Prussia and Austria. Plater fought for the independence of Poland from Russia in the Polish-Russian War of 1830-1831. She was killed in battle and is considered a national hero in Poland.
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