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| | From the Crimean War to the Congress of Berlin |
 | | The Vistula Land, as the kingdom of Poland was now called, lost the last traces of its autonomy and was turned into just another Russian province, with Russian as the official language in the administration, courts, and schools. |
 | | In her historic boundaries Hungary was formally recognized as an independent kingdom with its own constitution, parliament, and government, whose first prime minister was Count Julius Andrássy, prominent in the long negotiations before the signing of the Compromise. |
 | | The Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia was to be governed by a ban, responsible to the Hungarian government, and a provincial diet at Zagreb would be competent in matters of internal administration, justice, and education, while twenty-nine Croat members would sit in the Hungarian Parliament to discuss common problems of finance and defense. |
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