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  Prussia
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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 Prussia 1911
The beginnings of the state are connected with the bloody struggles and with the wonderful cultural and missionary labours by means of which the territories on the Baltic between the Elbe and Memel were wrested in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries from the Slavs and won for Germany and the Catholic Church.
The State was furthermore consolidated by gaining the sympathetic support of the teachers and professors as an after effect of the patriotic movement in the War of Liberation and partly owing to its energy in the cause of education.
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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 Prussia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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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 Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 part of the German Empire or Deutsches Reich in 1871.
The state of Brandenberg-Prussia became commonly referred to as "Prussia", although half its territory, around Berlin and in the Rhineland, was not in the territories of Prussia proper.
Prussia was the dominant state in the new confederation, as the kingdom took up almost four-fifths of the new grouping's territory and population.
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 Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
8 Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic
The ineffective and militarily weak Margrave George William (1619-1640) fled from Berlin to Königsberg, the historic capital of the Duchy of Prussia, in 1637.
The imperial crown was hereditary in the House of Hohenzollern, the royal house of Prussia.
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 PRUSSIA
Prussia remained the dominant military power of Germany until the end of World War I. Thereafter it was largely an administrative unit of Germany.
The union of Brandenburg, with its capital at Berlin, and East Prussia laid the foundation of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Prussia absorbed the state of Waldeck in 1929 and in 1937 was given the state of Lubeck and portions of the states of Hamburg and Oldenburg.
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 Local Government and Popitz‘ Law in Prussia and in Germany
Prussia, however, involved in a war against Napoleon was in a desperate crisis in 1807 Under Frederic William III it has lost the battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806 and after two further defeats in East Prussia peace had to be made with Napoleon in July 1807.
State fiscal requirements have been made independent of local tributes and were financed by general taxes.
When the state income tax was introduced in Prussia in 1873, the local communities obtained the right to levy an extra-charge on this base for their own purposes.
www.gmu.edu /jbc/fest/files/blankart.htm   (3214 words)

  
 PRUSSIA Maps
Prussia was a former state in north-central Germany.
In the nineteenth century, Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states, establishing itself as the largest and most influential of these states, with Berlin as the capital of the German Empire.
After Germany’s defeat in World War II, Prussia was abolished as a state, and its territory was divided among East Germany, West Germany, the Soviet Union, and Poland.
www.rollintl.com /roll/prussia.htm   (326 words)

  
 Fredericus Rex - The First Servant of His State
A mayor of a city was appointed by the king, and all administrative personnel was paid by the state.
He looked closely into jurisprudence and the administration of justice for his state, and he was able to make Prussia the first country on the European continent were the people were treated fair and just under the law.
The courts of Prussia were independent, but they operated under the watchful eye of the King, who saw himself as the defender of the poor.
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 Frederick William I of Prussia Summary
The son of the elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and of Sophie Charlotte of Hanover, Frederick William I was born in Berlin on Aug. 15, 1688.
Frederick William I of Prussia (in German: Friedrich Wilhelm I), of the House of Hohenzollern, (August 14, 1688 – May 31, 1740), often known as 'the Soldier-King' reigned as King in Prussia (1713 - 1740).
He was born in Berlin to Frederick I of Prussia and Sophia Charlotte of Hanover.
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 Prussian Awards
Thus, the awards of Prussia came to be thought of as the standard "German" decorations of the First World War.
It was Prussia's highest military award, given not for individual acts of gallantry, but for repeated and continual gallantry in action.
It was instituted by King Wilhelm II of Prussia on 15 December 1916.
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 The Land of Frankenstein - John Taylor Gatto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This tightly schooled consensus in Prussia eventually combined the kaleidoscopic German principalities into a united Germany, after a thousand years as a nation in fragments.
All this was much fairer to Mann than England’s repulsive episcopal system—schooling based on social class; Prussia, he thought, was republican in the desirable, manly, Roman sense.
The surprise is, while German state management was rigid and regulated with its common citizens, it was liberal and adventuresome with its elites.
www.johntaylorgatto.com /chapters/7a.htm   (1548 words)

  
 “Germany's Prussian Ambition” - theTrumpet.com
“Prussia is a project, not a historical relic or even a joke,” said Tilman Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Bonn, adding that “only fatalists will argue that Prussia is history” (ibid., Feb. 28).
The city of Potsdam was known as the “pearl of Prussia.” Devastated by World War ii and left inert by the forced seclusion of the Cold War, it has recently undergone great change, swiftly acquiring a reputation as one of Germany’s most attractive cities.
The idea of a Prussian state is but further evidence of a resurrected Holy Roman Empire with Germany at its head (Rev. 13:3-4).
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 AllRefer.com - Prussia, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The chief member of the German Empire (1871–1918) and a state of the Weimar Republic (1919–33), Prussia occupied more than half of all Germany and the major part of N Germany.
Before 1919 it consisted of 13 provinces: Berlin, Brandenburg, East Prussia (separated after 1919 from the rest of Prussia by the Polish Corridor), Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (see Hesse), Hohenzollern (a Prussian enclave between WUrttemberg and Baden in SW Germany), Pomerania, Rhine Province, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia, and Westphalia.
• William I, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia
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 East Prussia - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
East Prussia, easternmost province of the former kingdom and state of Prussia, divided after World War II between Poland and the Soviet Union.
By the terms of the treaties, Prussia was forced to cede all its territory west of the Elbe to Napoleon, who used it to create the kingdom of...
Instead of making a treaty immediately with defeated and disorganized Germany, the victorious powers temporarily designated four occupation zones....
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 NationalAnthems.us Online Forum - (Germany - former state) Prussia
The Royal anthem (until 1918) was "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz" (see here), which was also de facto national anthem of Germany until 1918.
The King of Prussia was also German Emperor (since 1871); the only difference was that in the Prussian version he was referred to as "König" (King) instead of "Kaiser" (Emperor).
In the 19th century, the use of national anthems had not yet become standardized as we know it today, and there was no common understanding that a nation had to have only one "official" national anthem.
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 Group of 4; Prussia: State Merit medal silver, Franco Prussian War medal 1870-71 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Group of 4; Prussia: State Merit medal silver, Franco Prussian War medal 1870-71 4
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