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  East Prussia – FREE East Prussia Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
East Prussia, as the original Prussia came to be called, from 1701 to 1945 shared the history of Prussia.
East Prussia bordered on Poland and Lithuania in the south and east and stretched to Memel and the Baltic Sea in the north and northeast.
From 1815 it was known as East Prussia, part of the kingdom of Prussia, and in the 19th century it was a stronghold of Prussian Junkers, a military aristocracy.
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  Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany both politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
Prussia greatly expanded its territories to the east during the Partitions of Poland between 1772 and 1795.
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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 Kingdom of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - darmowe.org.pl
The Kingdom of Prussia (German: Königreich Preußen) was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost two-thirds of the area of the empire.
The new territory connected East Prussia (the territory previously known as the Duchy of Prussia) with Pomerania, uniting the kingdom's eastern territories.
Prussia’s reward for its part in France's defeat came at the Congress of Vienna, where Prussia was granted most of its lost territories and considerably more, including 40% of the Kingdom of Saxony and much of the Rhineland.
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 Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1618 the duchy of Prussia passed through inheritance to the elector of Brandenburg, and in 1660, by the treaty of Oliva, full independence from Polish suzerainty was confirmed to Frederick William, the Great Elector.
Prussia was fortunate to possess, at this low ebb in its history, such able and energetic reformers as Karl vom und zum Stein, Karl August von Hardenberg, and Wilhelm von Humboldt.
Prussia was forced to send auxiliary troops for Napoleon’s 1812 campaign in Russia, but late in the year Yorck von Wartenburg concluded a separate truce with Russia, and in 1813 Prussia joined the coalition against France.
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 PGSA - East Prussia
East Prussia has a variety of soils: frumentaceous on the Niemen, Pregola and Warmia, sandy on the seashores and sandbars and in the powiaty of Niborsk, Szczytno and Jansbork; and there are large marshes in Labiawa and Pilkally powiaty.
East Prussia does, however, possess large deposits of peat, mainly in the marshes on Kuryjska Bay and on the northern flank of the East Prussian heights.
The greatest defeat for the Polish population of Ducal Prussia was the division of Poland, by which Frederick II regained all the territories formerly ceded in the Peace of Torun [1466], except for the bishopric of Warmia, and Gdansk and Torun; he acquired those two cities in the second division.
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 New East Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New East Prussia (German Neu-Ostpreußen) was the easternmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia between 1795 and 1807, created from areas acquired during the third Partition of Poland, with Warsaw as a capital.
The province ceased to exist when Napoleon taken it in 1807, and the territory became a part of the Duchy of Warsaw, except the Bialystok district which was ceded to Russia.
In 1806, New East Prussia had 914,610 inhabitants, and was divided into two "departments":
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 Hoffmann, E. T. A.
Prussia had declared war against France on March 16, and their journey was fraught with difficulties.
The King of Prussia appointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissidence; when he found its observance of the rule of law too frustrating, he established a Ministerial Commission to interfere with its processes.
Hoffmann died in Berlin on June 25, 1822 at the age of 46, and is buried near the Hallesches Tor in the Jerusalem and New Churches Community Cemetery.
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 PRUSSIA BOOKS SOURCE, FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Prussia as a state was ''de facto'' abolished by the Nazis in 1934, ''de jure'' by the Allied Powers in 1947.
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.
Everything east of the Oder-Neisse_line, including Silesia, Pomerania, eastern Brandenburg and East_Prussia, was included within the new borders of 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).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prussia
For a considerable length of time Napoleon tempted Prussia by holding out the hope of this acquisition, and in 1806 by the plan of a North German Confederation of which Prussia was to be the leader, Frederick William II even sought to gain territory in southern Germany.
As Prussia had aided the principalities of central Germany to suppress internal revolts in the spring of 1849, these countries did not at first venture to disagree with Prussia, as appears from the agreement of 26 May with Saxony and Hanover, called the "union of the three kings".
The ability of 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.
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 A Brief History of Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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).
This caused the province of East Prussia to be separated from the rest of Germany.
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 Reference for Prussia - Search.com
Prussia was the dominant state in the new confederation, as the kingdom comprised almost four-fifths of the new state's territory and population.
Prussia is light blue.After WWI the Provinces of Posen and West Prussia came largely to the 2nd Polish Republic; Posen-West Prussia and the West Prussia district were formed from the remaining parts.
Prussia was extended on 1 April 1937, for instance, by the incorporation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
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 Tvangeste: Prussia - Wikipedia
East Germany, destroyed the junkers as a class and marked the effective end of Prussia as a social and political entity; the East German bureaucracy is seen by many as a "Red" continuation of the Prussian tradition, however.
Prussia was formally abolished by a proclamation of the four occupying powers in Germany in 1947.
East Prussia, as part of the migration influx into the area, which was previously a restricted area (see "closed city").
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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 unified
New East Prussia and South Prussia), which brought territory as far east as Warsaw under Prussian rule.
Brandenburg and 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.).
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 East Prussia
The territory of East Prussia was sparsely populated and colonized by the Germans and Poles (the southern parts).
In 1815 a new administrative division of the Prussian monarchy was introduced.
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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 CHAPTER I Our German History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The new nation was based on a federal system with certain powers allocated for the states and those of national import belonging to the democratically elected national parliament, known as the Reichstag.
The original (East and West) Prussia was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland and Russia.
The Carolingian Empire was partitioned in 817 and the Duchy of Bavaria became the territory of the East Frank, with its capital Regensburg.
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 > Prussia abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
East Prussia found itself again cut off from the rest of Germany by the Polish Corridor.
These expulsions, together with the nationalisation of land by the Communist regime in East Germany, destroyed the junkers as a class and marked the effective end of Prussia as a social and political entity; the East German bureaucracy is seen by many as a "Red" continuation of the Prussian tradition, however.
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 Articles - Duchy of Warsaw   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In addition, the new state was given the area along the Noteć river and the "Land of Chełmno".
In fact, the duchy was heavily militarised, bordered as it was by Prussia, the Austrian Empire, and Russia, and it was to be a significant source for troops in various campaigns of Napoleon.
After Napoleon's defeat in the east, most of the territory of the Duchy of Warsaw was taken by Russia in January of 1813 in their advance on France and its German allies.
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 Prussia --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ducal Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia, to 1786.
The electors of Brandenburg (who from 1701 were the kings of Prussia) considered a rigidly centralized government a means of ensuring stability and furthering dynastic objectives.
He was given the usual military training of a prince of Prussia and at the age of 18 took part in the final...
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 Adalbert Goertz: FAQ.prussia (Preußen)
The concept of Kreis was different in pre-1806 Prussia and referred to the districts of the noble families ("Die Adeligen Kreise of the Rittergutsbesitzer") as well as the Immediatstädte and royal Domainen-Ämter.
The original (East and West) Prussia was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland and Russia The Western powers were silent on the ethnic cleansing of original Prussia and Eastern Germany resulting in 12 millions of German refugees and expellees.
Ostpreußen (East Prussia)* Königsberg -Ermland since 1772- (Königsberg,Gumbinnen) Westpreußen (West Prussia)* Danzig since 1772/1793 (Danzig-Gdansk,Marienwerder-Kwidzyn) Note: West Prussia geographically was NOT in the western part of 19th century Prussia.
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 Province of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saxony (German: Sachsen) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1945.
The Erfurt Regierungsbezirk was merged with the Herrschaft Schmalkalden district of the province Hesse-Nassau to become the Reichsstatthalter of the new state of Thuringia.
The Magdeburg Regierungsbezirk merged with the former state of Anhalt to become the Gau of Magdeburg while the Merseburg Regierungsbezirk became the Gau of Halle-Merseburg, but the Gaue of Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg were merged to reform the province of Saxony in 1945.
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 FAQ: Posen including South and New East Prussia
King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia annexed the remainder in the second partition of Poland in 1793 and renamed it South Prussia.
Prussia established three new provinces: South Prussia (Südpreussen), New East Prussia (Neu-Ostpreussen) and Neuschlesien In 1806 The province of South Prussia (Südpreussen) had 1,503,508 Einwohner with 3 districts (departements): Departement der Kriegs- und Domainen-Kammer zu Posen included the Kreise of Posen,Oborniki,Meseritz,Bomst,Fraustadt,Krebe,Schrim, Kosten,Krotoschin,Peisern,Schroda,Gnesen,Wangrowitz,Powitz, Brzesk, Radziejow, Kowal.
Prussia introduced new courts and land deed records (Grund- und Hypotheken-Acta) in 1783 (Prussian Hypotheken-Ordnung of 1783) which initially applied to crownlands (Domainen) only..
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 FAQ: Ostpreussen (East Prussia)
In 1905 a third district of Allenstein was established from the southern parts of the districts of Königsberg and Gumbinnen comprising the Kreise of Allenstein (Stadt and Land), Johannisburg, Lötzen, Lyck, Neidenburg, Ortelsburg, Osterode, Rössel, and Sensburg.
A new Reg.Bezirk (district) of Westpreußen (or Marienwerder) was added from the remaining divided province of West Prussia (Kreise Elbing, Marienburg, Marienwerder, Rosenberg, Stuhm), After WWII (1945) Ostpreußen was divided among Russia (Kalinigrad Oblastj) and Poland.
The concept of Kreis was different in pre-1808 Prussia and referred to the districts of the noble families ("Die Adeligen Kreise") as well as the Immediatstädte and royal Domainen-Ämter.
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 Mennonite Family History and Genealogy: From Prussia to Russia to North America
Before 1772 Prussia consisted of a region later known as East Prussia (Ostpreussen) with the capital in Koenigsberg.
East Prussia was decimated in the early 1700's by the plague.
It was common knowledge in political circles that Prussia had its intentions for the northern portion of Poland.
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 East Prussia - GenWiki
The concept of Kreis was different in pre-1806 Prussia and referred to the districts of the noble families ("Die Adeligen Kreise") as well as the Immediatstädte and royal Domainen-Aemter.
All monarchies in Germany were abolished in 1918 and Prussia was declared defunct in 1945 by the Allied victors.
The original (East and West) Prussia was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland and Russia.
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 PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
This is a translation of excerpts from the article on East Prussia printed in the late-19th century Polish gazetteer Slownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego.
It lies between 53°8'30" and 55°53'40" North latitude and 36°59'6" and 40°33'12" East longitude (Ferro).
] To the north it borders on the Baltic, to the east on Kowno and Augustów gubernias, to the south on Augustów and Plock gubernias, and to the west on West Prussia.
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 Ostpreussen / East Prussia
The concept of Kreis was different in pre-1806 Prussia and referred to the districts of the noble families ("Die Adeligen Kreise") as well as the Immediatstädte and royal Domainen-Aemter.
All monarchies in Germany were abolished in 1918 and Prussia was declared defunct in 1945 by the Allied victors.
The original (East and West) Prussia was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland and Russia.
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