The Supreme People's Council ( pl, Naczelna Rada Ludowa, NRL) was a political organization in the
Prussian Partition of
Poland, which played a major role during the
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19). It was established in 1916 in
Poznań as an underground Interparty Committee (Komitet Międzypartyjny), also known as the Central Citizen's Committee (Centralny Komitet Obywatelski). After the World War I armistice, the committee renamed itself to the People's Council and later to the Supreme People's Council. The Council self-disbanded on August 19, 1919, when the power in the area was transferred to the re-united
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...
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["Kronika Miasta Poznania" nr 4, 1998, Naczelna Rada Ludowa.]
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1916 establishments in Poland
Aftermath of World War I in Poland
Governments in Poland
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