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	Pomerania - LoveToKnow 1911
		POMERANIA (German, Pommern), a territory of Germany and a maritime province of Prussia, bounded on the N. by the Baltic, on the W. by Mecklenburg, on the S. by Brandenburg, and on the E. by West Prussia.
		The province is officially divided into the three districts of Stralsund, Stettin and Koslin, but more historical interest attaches to the names of Vorpommern and Hinterpommern, or Hither and Farther Pomerania, the former being applied to the territory to the west, and the latter to that to the east of the Oder.
		Off the west coast, which is very irregular, lie the islands of Riigen, Usedom and Wollin; the coast of Farther Pomerania is smooth in outline and is bordered with dunes, or sandbanks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pomerania (989 words)

	West Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		; Polish: Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773-1824 and 1878-1918.
		Population of Prussia and its Provinces in 1890
		From 1885 to 1890 West Prussia's population decreased by 1%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_of_West_Prussia (593 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Prussia
		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.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Prussia (5178 words)

	Danzig - LoveToKnow 1911
		The city is traversed by two branches of the Mottlau, a small tributary of the Vistula, dredged to a depth of 15 ft., thus enabling large vessels to reach the wharves of the inner town.
		Danzig originally owed its commercial importance to the fact that it was the shipping port for the corn grown in Poland and the adjacent regions of Russia and Prussia; but for some few years past this trade has been slipping away from her.
		In 1807, during the war between France and Prussia, it was bombarded and captured by Marshal Lefebvre, who was rewarded with the title of duke of Danzig; and at the peace of Tilsit Napoleon declared it a free town, under the protection of France, Prussia and Saxony, restoring to it its ancient territory.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Danzig (990 words)

	Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
	history-world.org /prussia.htm (991 words)

	Pommerscher Verein Freistadt > Prussia
		In 1772 Poland was partitioned and Pomerelia (except Danzig) was annexed; this became the province of West Prussia; the original Prussia became East Prussia.
		Prussia lost all lands west of the Elbe and most of the lands acquired from Poland at the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, as a result of the French Revolutionary War and Napoleon's War.
		Prussia, the former kingdom, was largest and most important of the German states and Berlin was the capital.
	pommerschervereinfreistadt.org /Prussia/tabid/93/Default.aspx (888 words)

	West Prussia
		West Prussia was a province of Kingdom of Prussia.
		In 1793, during the Second Partition of Poland, the city of Gdansk (Danzig) was incorporated into West Prussia.
		Most of West Prussia returned to Poland in 1919, and the rest in 1945.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/we/West_Prussia.html (68 words)

	East Prussia
		The territory of East Prussia was sparsely populated and colonized by the Germans and Poles (the southern parts).
		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.
		The capital city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad and became the capital of the Russian enclave.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/eastpr.htm (479 words)

	Prussia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, under his rule and that of his successor, Frederick William III (1797-1840), Prussia underwent a period of eclipse as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars and the wars of Napoleon I.
		Finally, in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), the North German Confederation overwhelmed France, and in 1871 William I of Prussia was proclaimed emperor of Germany.
		King of Prussia Chamber of Commerce at Valley Forge Announces Annual Excellence Awards Recipients to be Honored at Banquet on April 28, 2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-prussia.html (2064 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Prussia - AOL Research & Learn
		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.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/prussia/20051207023109990002 (1936 words)

	A Brief History of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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).
	www.kolpack.com /packnet/prussia.html (425 words)

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		Royal Prussia (Polish: Prusy Królewskie, German: Königliches Preussen) was a Polish province formed from the western part of the Lands of the Teutonic Order following the Thirteen Years War or "War of the Cities".
		The eastern part of Prussia remained under the rule of the Order and its successors, until 1660 under Polish suzerainty as a Polish fief, becoming the Duchy of Prussia in 1525 when the Order's Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg adopted Lutheranism and secularised his land as hereditary ruler.
		During the First (1772) and Second (1793) Partitions of Poland the area was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia and became the province of West Prussia.
	www.informationclub.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_prussia.html (219 words)

	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%.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Stage/8979/prussia/prussia.html (1120 words)

	Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Prussia, Germany)
		The Landesfarben were granted by the Prussian state ministry to the province on the 9th September 1923 and lasted until 1940, although all the flags of the Länder and provinces were already abolished in 1935.
		It shall be noted that the combination of the colours of Western Prussia with the one of Posen appeared before the adoption of the coat of arms of the Grenzmark where the inescutcheon on the eagle displayed this combination.
		After the [Second World] War, the association in West Germany of people coming from the former province, used the former banner of the Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen with the coat of arms of this province in the center of the first quartering of the flag (that is one-third from the top).
	flagspot.net /flags/de-pr19-.html (757 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ermland
		Ermland, or Ermeland (Varmiensis, Warmia), a district of East Prussia and an exempt bishopric.
		In the seventeenth century (1626-30, 1655-56), and at the beginning of the eighteenth century (1703-09), the diocese was repeatedly ravaged by the Swedes, who forcibly supressed the Catholic Church services and carried away its literary and artistic treasures.
		In the treaty of Warsaw (September 18, 1773), King Fredrich II, it is true, guaranteed the status quo and the free exercise of religion for the Catholics of the annexed provinces, nevertheless all schools and institutions for education and training under religious control were gradually supressed, and the landed property of the Church secularized.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05522a.htm (1306 words)

	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
	www.exulanten.com /preussen.html (2019 words)

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		East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia.
		East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancient ancestral lands of the Baltic Prussians.
		On January 31, 1773 King Friedrich II announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as "Westpreußen" (West Prussia) and the old Duchy of Prussia were to be known as "Ostpreußen" (East Prussia).
	in2reach.com /cgi-bin/readzip_txt.cgi?east_prussia.html (744 words)

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		When (initially class-based) provincial parliaments were established in the Prussian provinces in 1823, two of them were established in Pomerania: one communal parliament for the governmental districts of Stettin and Koeslin and a separate communal parliament for the governmental district of Stralsund, New Hither Pomerania (until 1881).
		At the head of the province stood the representative of the Crown, the Provincial President, who resided in the palace in Stettin and until 1882 also functioned as the governmental president for the district of Stettin.
		As in all of Prussia, a Union of the Lutheran and Reformed churches was introduced in Pomerania (thereby creating a new united Protestant church).
	members.tripod.com /~radde/PrussianProvince.html (2287 words)

	Torun
		Torun (at that time called Thorn, and in the Culmer Land region of Prussia), was an important medieval trade center, and part of the Hanseatic League.
		1454 the cities of Prussia rose up against the Teutonic Knights: Thorn accepted the sovereignty of the Polish crown in return for recognition of its city priviliges.
		1793 Thorn was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Torun.html (449 words)

	faq.posen including South and New East Prussia
		A2: Part of Greater Poland was annexed by King Friedrich II of Prussia in 1772 and renamend Netze-District during the first partition of Poland.
		King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia annexed the remainder in the second partition of Poland in 1793 and renamed it South Prussia.
		In the latter decades before 1900 there was a strong migration from Posen province to the Western Prussian provinces, most notably to Rheinland and Westfalen where the booming industrial Ruhr area and its coal and steel companies were the main attraction to the new labor force.
	users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faqpos.html (4056 words)

	PGSA - West Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		West Prussia's is a sea climate and therefore damp, variable, and harsh.
		[As of 1773] Warmia was incorporated into East Prussia, and Gdansk and Torun still belonged to Poland, whereas the East Prussian cities of Kwidzyn, Prabuty, Susz and Ilawa and their districts were made part of West Prussia, as was the Notec region [Netze-distrikt] in 1775...
		As a result of the second partition in 1793 Gdansk and Torun were incorporated into West Prussia, and from then to 1807 there was no change in the province's territory.
	www.pgsa.org /towns/wprussia.htm (1152 words)

	Pomerania History
		In 1772 it was annexed by Prussia and made into the province of West Prussia.
		The part of Pomerania west of the Odra was included in the new state of Mecklenburg, in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (later East Germany—1949-90).
		The frontier was gradually moved west, as the area was conquered by the Teutonic Knights, and the district between the Wisla and Prosnica rivers became known as Pomerellen, a part of Poland.
	www.richware.net /rohde/pomerania_history.htm (1286 words)

	Pomerania - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Pomerelia, as E Pomerania came to be known, became independent in 1227, was annexed to Poland in 1294, and was taken in 1308-9 by the Teutonic Knights, who incorporated it into their domain in East Prussia.
		Although frequently overrun in the wars of the following three centuries, it remained an integral part of Poland until the first Polish partition (1772), when it passed to Prussia and was constituted into the province of West Prussia.
		In 1919 part of West Prussia was given to Poland (see Polish Corridor).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Pomerani.html (827 words)

	Ducal Prussia Information
		Grand Master Albert of Prussia, a member of a cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern, lacked the strength to maintain the Teutonic Order's power, especially after losing a war against the Kingdom of Poland.
		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.
		In 1773 former Ducal Prussia was reorganized into the Province of East Prussia, while most of Royal Prussia became the Province of West Prussia.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ducal_Prussia (1152 words)

	AllRefer.com - West Prussia, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Westpreussen, former province of Prussia, 9,867 sq mi (25,556 sq km), NE Germany, extending S from the Baltic Sea, between Pomerania on the west and East Prussia on the east.
		The Treaty of Versailles (1919) gave most of West Prussia to Poland (see Polish Corridor) and made Danzig and its environs a free city.
		The remainder of West Prussia was divided between the Prussian province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia and the district of West Prussia, incorporated with the province of East Prussia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WestPrus.html (281 words)

	FAQ.ostpreußen - East Prussia
		The original (East and West) Prussia was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland and Russia.
		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.
		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.
	users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faqopr.html (3974 words)

	Pomerania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Pomerelia, as E Pomerania came to be known, became independent in 1227, was annexed to Poland in 1294, and was taken in 1308–9 by the Teutonic Knights, who incorporated it into their domain in East Prussia.
		Although frequently overrun in the wars of the following three centuries, it remained an integral part of Poland until the first Polish partition (1772), when it passed to Prussia and was constituted into the province of West Prussia.
		In 1919 part of West Prussia was given to Poland (see Polish Corridor).
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Pomerani.html (715 words)

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