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Emilia Plater

Countess Emilia Broel-Plater (Lithuanian: Emilija Pliaterytė; 13 November 1806 – 23 December 1831) was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary from the lands of the partitioned Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Raised in a patriotic tradition in Līksna near Daugavpils, she fought in the November Uprising of 1830–1831 against the Russian Empire. She raised a small unit, participated in several engagements in present-day Lithuania, and received the rank of captain in the Polish insurgent forces.

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emilia Plater has received more than 234,212 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Emilia Plater is the 81st most popular social activist (up from 101st in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 25th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lithuanian Social Activist.

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