On October 24, 1795, Austrian, Prussian, and Russian representatives met to dissolve the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as the Third Partition of Poland, which resulted in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.
Was the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish?
The dual Polish-Lithuanian state, Respublica, or “Commonwealth” (Polish: Rzeczpospolita), was one of the largest states in Europe. … The term Poland was used for both the entire state and the strictly Polish part of it (though the latter was officially called the Crown).