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| | Prussia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Being predominantly a northern and eastern German state, Prussia had a large Protestant majority, although there were substantial Roman Catholic populations in the Rhineland, while a number of districts in Posen, Silesia, West Prussia, and the Warmia and Masuria regions of East Prussia had populations of predominantly Catholic Poles. |
 | | In 1862 Prussian King William I appointed Otto von Bismarck as Prime Minister of Prussia. |
 | | De jure, Prussia continued to exist as a territorial unit until the end of World War II, but in practice the "Gaue" of the Nazi Party organization were the building blocks of the Nazi state. |
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