Editing Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (section)

===Acceptance of the post-war order of the Congress of Vienna===
After his release from a Prussian prison in February 1815, at first Frederick Augustus delayed his agreement to the division of his country. However, having no other option, he finally gave in, and on 18 May consented to the peace treaty laid before him by Prussia and Russia. With the signing of the treaty on 21 May 1815, 57% of Saxon territory and 42% of the Saxon population was turned over to Prussia.

Places and areas that had been connected to the Saxon landscape for hundreds of years became completely foreign, absorbed in part into artificially created administrative regions. Examples include [[Wittenberg]], the old capital of the Saxon Electoral State during the Holy Roman Empire, and seat of the [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg|National University]] made famous by [[Martin Luther]] and [[Philip Melanchthon|Melanchthon]] (which was already done away with in 1817 by means of a merger with the Prussian University of Halle), and [[Torgau]], birthplace and place of residence of the Elector [[Frederick the Wise]], which was incorporated into one of the new hybrids created by Prussia under the name [[Province of Saxony]]. [[Lower Lusatia]], which like [[Upper Lusatia]] had preserved its constitutional autonomy under Saxon rule, was incorporated into the [[Province of Brandenburg]] and ceased to exist as a state. Upper Lusatia was arbitrarily divided: the area assigned to Prussia, including [[Görlitz]], was added to the [[Province of Silesia]]; these areas also lost their constitutional autonomy.

On 22 May 1815 Frederick Augustus abdicated as ruler of the Duchy of Warsaw, whose territory was annexed mainly to Russia, but also partly to Prussia and Austria. In the area assigned to Russia, a [[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]] was created to join in a hereditary union with the Russian throne. The old royal city of Kraków no longer belonged to the new kingdom, and became a [[Republic of Kraków|separate republic]]. The internal autonomy that it enjoyed at first was abolished in 1831 after the [[November Uprising|Polish Uprising]].