The Act of November 5th of 1916 was a declaration of Emperors Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz Joseph of Austria. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Franz Joseph I Karl (- German, in English Francis Joseph I Charles, see the name in other languages) (18 August 1830 &ndash 21 November It promised the creation of the Kingdom of Poland. The Kingdom of Poland, also informally called Regency Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Regencyjne was the state proposed by the Act of November 5, 1916 issued It was envisioned by its authors as a puppet state allied to and controlled by the Central Powers. The Central Powers ( German: "Mittelmächte" Hungarian: "Központi hatalmak" Turkish: "İttifak The origin of that document was the dire need to draft new recruits from German-occupied Poland for the war with Russia. Vistula Land or Vistula Country (Привислянский Край Privislyansky Krai; Kraj Przywiślański was the name applied for the lands of The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and primarily Eastern Europe.

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• Proclamation of the German Emperor and the Emperor of Austria, respecting the establishment of a Kingdom of Poland

• Protest of the Russian Government against the Austro-German proclamation of Nov.6, 1916, respecting Poland

• Protest of the Governments of Great Britain, France and Italy, against the Austro-German Proclamation of Nov. 6, 1916, respecting Poland

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