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	The Ultimate Prussia - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Ducal Prussia was a dependency of the Kingdom of Poland until 1660, and Royal Prussia remained a part of Poland until 1772.
		From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
		Prussia's democratic constitution was suspended in 1932 as a result of a coup by Germany's conservative Chancellor Franz von Papen, marking the effective end of German democracy.
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		Ducal Prussia was 1525-1657 a fief of Poland, created as a result of war (1520-1525) between Poland and the Teutonic Order.
		Ducal Prussia is a synonym to the Duchy of Prussia (1525-1701), emphasizing that two Prussias existed beside eachother: Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia.
		During the Reformation endemic religious upheavals and wars occurred, and in 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert of Prussia, a member of a cadet branch of the house of Hohenzollern, resigned his position, became a Protestant and received the title "Duke of Prussia" from the Polish king Sigismundus I the Elder.
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		The Duchy of Prussia () or Ducal Prussia () was a duchy established in 1525 in the eastern part of Prussia, after western Prussia had become the Polish province of Royal Prussia (Polish Prussia) according to the Peace of Toruń (Thorn) in 1466.
		The Duchy of Prussia remained a vassal of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1657, when the Hohenzollern prince-electors of Brandenburg achieved sovereignty over the territory in the Treaty of Wehlau, which was conclusively recognized in the Treaty of Oliva (1660).
		Because Ducal Prussia was ostensibly a Lutheran land, authorities travelled throughout the duchy ensuring that Lutheran teachings were being followed and imposing penalties on pagans and dissidents.
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	Prussia - MSN Encarta
		At the height of its expansion, in the late 19th century, Prussia extended along the coasts of the Baltic and North seas, from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Luxembourg on the west to the Russian Empire on the east, to Austria-Hungary on the east, southeast, and south, and to Switzerland on the south.
		Modern Prussia was successively, with geographical modifications, an independent kingdom (1701-1871); the largest constituent kingdom of the German Empire (1871-1918); a constituent state, or land, of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933); and an administrative division, comprising 13 provinces, of the centralized German Third Reich (1934-1945).
		In 997 the Bohemian bishop and saint Adalbert was martyred as a missionary in Prussia.
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	Ducal Prussia
		Ducal Prussia was 1525-1657 a fief of Poland, created as a result of war (1520-1525) between Poland and the Teutonic Order.
		Ducal Prussia is a synonym to the Duchy of Prussia (1525-1701), emphasizing that two Prussias existed beside eachother: Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia.
		During the Reformation endemic religious upheavals and wars occurred, and in 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert of Prussia, a member of a cadet branch of the house of Hohenzollern, resigned his position, became a Protestant and received the title "Duke of Prussia" from the Polish king Sigismundus I the Elder.
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		The union of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 led to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.
		Prussia's reward in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna was the recovery of her lost territories, as well as the whole of the Rhineland, Westphalia, and some other territories.
		Prussia was extended on 1 April 1937, for instance, by the incorporation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prussia
		Prussia, and also in Pomerania, transferred to them the greater part of the princely jurisdiction and other legal rights over the peasants, so that the feudal lords were able to bring the peasants into complete economic dependence upon themselves and to make them serfs.
		Prussia to accomplish the difficult task of defeating the attacks of Austria was probably due to the expert knowledge and clearness of the chief representative of its economic policy, Rudolf von Delbrück, and to the fact that Hanover joined the Zollverein in Sept., 1851.
		Prussia's western provinces, for the commerce of the Rhine and the manufacturing districts of the lower Rhine and Westphalia rapidly grew in importance.
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	A Brief History of Prussia
		The area known as Prussia was inhabited in early times by West Slavic tribes, ancestors of the modern Poles, in the West, and Baltic tribes, closely related to Lithuanians, in the East.
		Prussia was divided into Royal Prussia in the west and Ducal Prussia in the east.
		Prussia's power grew and in 1772, under King Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), consisted of the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Danzig, West Prussia and East Prussia (modern day East Germany, northern Poland, and a small portion of the Soviet Union).
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	Ducal Prussia - Definition, explanation
		Ducal Prussia was between (1525–1657) a fief of Poland, created as a result of war (1520–1525) between Poland and the Teutonic Order.
		Ducal Prussia is a synonym for the Duchy of Prussia (1525–1701), emphasizing that two Prussias existed beside each other: Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia.
		Royal Prussia was held by the king of Poland, who also was the feudal lord of Ducal Prussia.
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	Place:Ducal Prussia, Poland - Genealogy
		Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland between 1525–1657.
		Royal Prussia, Poland was held by the king of Poland, who also was the feudal lord of Ducal Prussia.
		Ducal Prussia lost its status as a Polish fief and became a part of Brandenburg-Prussia, but not part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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		From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the Kingdom of Poland until 1660, and Royal Prussia remained a part of Prussia, such as Hohenzollern, the home of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
		Ducal Prussia was a dependency of the lands of the Prussian virtues: perfect organization, sacrifice, the rule of law.
		From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the Polish Crown called Royal Prussia; A Polish fief ruled by the Teutonic Knights; Part of the lands of the lands of the lands of the Prussian ruling family.
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	Prussia at AllExperts
		The Kingdom of Prussia dominated northern Germany politically, economically, and in terms of population, and was the core of the unified North German Confederation formed in 1867, which became the German Empire or Deutsches Reich in 1871.
		Prussia's reward in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna was the recovery of her lost territories, as well as the whole of the Rhineland, Westphalia, and some other territories.
		Prussia was extended on 1 April 1937, for instance, by the incorporation of the Free and Hanseatic City of LÃ¼beck.
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	EZGeography - Ducal Prussia
		Ducal Prussia was between (1525–1657) a fief of Poland, created as a result of war (1520–1525) between Poland and the Teutonic Order.
		Ducal Prussia is a synonym for the Duchy of Prussia (1525–1701), emphasizing that two Prussias existed beside each other: Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia.
		Royal Prussia was held by the king of Poland, who also was the feudal lord of Ducal Prussia.
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	PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Modern Prussia was successively, with geographical modifications, an independent kingdom (1701–1871); the largest constituent kingdom of the German Empire (1871–1918); a constituent state, or land, of the Weimar Republic (1918–34); and an administrative division, comprising 13 provinces, of the centralized German Third Reich (1934–45).
		After World War I, West Prussia was lost to Poland, and East Prussia was separated from the rest of German Prussia in 1919, under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, by a strip of formerly Prussian territory known as the Polish Corridor, designed to give Poland an outlet on the Baltic Sea.
		Frederick William’s son, Frederick I, became king of Prussia in 1701, receiving royal recognition in exchange for a promise of military aid to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. Frederick’s son, Frederick William I, greatly increased the size of the Prussian army and rebuilt the organization of the state around the military establishment.
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	Duchy of Prussia 1525-1701 (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1701, Prussia became a kingdom and from then till 1871, it was in a continuous stage of expansion until it came to be by far the largest German state, almost as large as all the others together.
		On 10 April 1525 the Polish King Zygmunt Stary (Sigismund the Older) gave Ducal Prussia a flag and a coat of arms: a fl eagle with a crown on its neck and the letter S (Sigismund) on its breast.
		This crest was the symbol of the unity of Royal Prussia and the Kingdom of Poland.
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	West Prussia
		In 1657 Poland lost the northwestern fragments of Royal Prussia which were taken by Brandenburg (marked in blue on the map) and later bacame part of Pomerania.
		The province of Royal Prussia was mostly inhabited by Catholics of Polish (or Cashubian) ethnicity and a significant German (partially Lutheran) minority, which was predominant particularly in the cities, as Gdansk (German: Danzig) and Torun (Thorn).
		The areas of the former West Prussia east from the Vistula River (shown in green and pink) also remained German and were incorporated into East Prussia.
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	East Prussia
		The territory of East Prussia was sparsely populated and colonized by the Germans and Poles (the southern parts).
		The westernmost portion (marked in cyan on the map) of the historical Ducal Prussia (with Kwidzyn/Marienwerder) was incorporated into West Prussia, which in turn lost the region of Warmia (German: Ermland - shown in yellow) to East Prussia.
		East Prussia was in turn extended by the eastern districts (shown in green and in cyan) of the former Province of West Prussia which remained German after 1920.
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		During four centuries, several military engineers by occupiers such as Bourbons, Habsbourg and Hohenzollerns, transformed the city in a fortified wonder - surrounded by three girdles of battlements - that was to be known as the Gibraltar of the North.
		With the defeat of Napoleon, Prussia and the Netherlands disputed the territory and the Congress of Vienna decided that Luxemburg was to be a Gran Duchy, in union with the Netherlands.
		At the heart of the city, in the Old Town - a mainly pedestrianized zone - lies the Palace of the Grand Dukes, city residence of the Grand Ducal family, since 1890.
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	West Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The territory which remained under the rule of the Order was then called Ducal Prussia and later became the province of East Prussia.
		In 1657 Poland lost the northwestern fragments of Royal Prussia which were taken by Brandenburg (marked in blue on the map) and later bacame part of Pomerania.
		The areas of the former West Prussia east from the Vistula River (shown in green and pink) also remained German and were incorporated into East Prussia.
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	Worldroots.com
		Prussia became the name of this area known as the land of the Pruzzen (Prussia) because the people who lived there were called that.
		Under the second Peace of Torun in 1466, the territory west of the Vistule River, Royal Prussia, was ceded to Poland and the territory east of the river, Ducal Prussia, became a fief of the Polish crown.
		This caused the province of East Prussia to be separated from the rest of the German Empire.
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	History of Prussia - History - German Archive: Prussia attained its greatest importance in the 18th and 19th centuries. ...
		During this period Prussia expanded its territories to the east during the collapse of the Kingdom of Poland in the so-called Partitions of Poland, between 1772 and 1795, which brought territory as far east as Warsaw under Prussian rule.
		Prussia took a leading part in the French Revolutionary Wars, but remained quiet for more than a decade as a result of the Peace of Basel of 1795, only to go once more to war with France in 1806 as negotiations with that country over the allocation of the spheres of influence in Germany failed.
		Prussia was also embarassed by conceding to Austria predominance in the German Confederation in the Punctation of Olmütz in 1850, due to Russian support for Austria.
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	Bowles Laycock Kaminski Haradonski Fuller and Bennett Geneology Site
		West Prussia, formerly Royal Prussia, part of Pomerania, currently one of 12 provinces of the Kingdom of Prussia, has already been partially discussed in the articles on Gdansk and Kwidzyn, and from an ecclesiastical viewpoint in the article on Chelmno.
		West Prussia lies between 52°50'24" and 54°50'8" north latitude and 33°38'1" and 37°38'55" longitude (Ferro), and borders to the north on the Baltic, to the east on East Prussia, to the south on the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Poznan, and to the west on Brandenburg and Pomerania.
		Population: According to official statistics in 1867 West Prussia had 1,282,842 inhabitants; 1,343,057 in 1875; 1,405,898 in 1880; 1,408,229 in 1885; so in those last five years the population grew by only 2, 331, or 0.15%, while in the Kingdom of Prussia as a whole it grew by 3.79%.
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	Ducal Prussia Online, World Encyclopedia, India encyclopedia, Featured Articles, Cover Stories, World wide Informations ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Duchy of Prussia remained a vassal of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1657, when the Hohenzollern prince-electors of Brandenburg achieved sovereignty over the territory in the Treaty of Wehlau, which was conclusively recognized in the Treaty of Oliva (1660).
		Because Ducal Prussia was ostensibly a Lutheran land, authorities travelled throughout the duchy ensuring that Lutheran teachings were being followed and imposing penalties on pagans and dissidents.
		Ducal Prussia's location outside of the Holy Roman Empire allowed Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I.
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	preussen.html
		Prussia was invaded and settled by pagan German tribes.
		as Duke Albert of Prussia and a vassal of the Polish crown.
		Prussia was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia, and the newly annexed lands were to be
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	Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was the high point of Prussia's fortunes, and had the state continued to have wise leaders, Prussia's economic power and political status might have peacefully made her the centre of European civilisation.
		East Prussia, was annexed by Poland (with the northern third of East Prussia, including Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, going to the Soviet Union; today it is a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland.).
		Prussia was formally abolished by a proclamation of the four occupying powers in Germany in 1947.
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	Prussia - Simple English Wikipedia
		Ducal Prussia was part of the Kingdom of Poland until 1660, and Royal Prussia was part of Poland until 1772.
		In 1618 the new Duke of Prussia was the Elector John Sigismund of Brandenburg.
		The Duchy of Prussia was important to the Hohenzollern family because it was not in the Holy Roman Empire.
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