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 | | m., a population of 240,000, and is divided into the districts of Braunsberg, Heilsberg, ROssel and Allenstein. |
 | | Ermeland was originally one of the eleven districts of old Prussia and was occupied by the Teutonic Knights (Deutschcr Orden), being made in 1250 one of the four bishoprics of tl~ country under their sway. |
 | | Among the bishops of the see, which still exists, with its seat in Frauenberg, may be mentioned Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomirli, afterwards Pope Pius II., and Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius (1504-1579), the founder of the Jesuit college in Braunsberg. |
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