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	Province of West Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Prussia, was previously also part of the monastic state of Prussia under the Teutonic Order, but in their struggle of independence accepted aid from Casimir IV (Kazimierz IV Jagiellon), husband of Elizabeth Habsburg.
		Most of West Prussia was at Treaty of Versailles forced to go to a newly created Polish state in 1919, which consisted of one third of none-Polish inhabitants.
		From 1885 to 1890 West Prussia's population decreased by 1%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_of_West_Prussia (633 words)

	Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ducal Prussia was a dependency of the Kingdom of Poland (see Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) from 1525 to 1656, then of the king of Sweden, and Royal Prussia remained an independent part of the crown of Poland until 1772.
		Because Prussia was predominantly a northern and eastern German state, it 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 regions of East Prussia had populations of predominantly Catholic Poles.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia (2503 words)

	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.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia (1592 words)

	Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pr/Prussia.html (1895 words)

	WEST PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on WEST PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Westpreussen), a province of Prussia, bounded on the N. by the Baltic, on the E. by East Prussia, on the S. by Russian Poland and the province of Posen, and on the W. by Brandenburg and Pomerania.
		In general physical characteristics the province resembles East Prussia, but the climate is less harsh and the fertility of the soil greater.
		West Prussia, with the exception of southern Pomerania (around Marienwerder) which belonged to Prussia, was a possession of Poland from 1466 till the first paltition of Poland in 1772, when it was given to Prussia with the exception of Danzig and Thorn, which Poland retained till 1793.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WE/WEST_PRUSSIA.htm (581 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)

	West Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/westpr.htm (338 words)

	A Brief History of Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	West Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of four districts of East Prussia in 1920 - 1938.
		Major cities of West Prussia: Elbing, Marienburg, Marienwerder.
		In 1919 after World War I most of Imperial German Province of West Prussia (the former province of the same name in Kingdom of Prussia) was given to Poland, only the eastern remainder remained part of Germany, and became part of the province of East Prussia as a district called West Prussia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Prussia (101 words)

	PGSA - West Prussia
		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...
		The Peace of Tilsit in 1807 created the Duchy of Warsaw and took away from West Prussia the greater part of the Notec region, namely the entire powiaty of Inowroclaw and Bydgoszcz with the greater part of Kamien and Walcz powiaty, as well as the ancient province of Chelmno, i.
	www.pgsa.org /wprussia.htm (1152 words)

	Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ducal Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia, to 1786.
		In 1850 Austria challenged this union, and Prussia was obliged to abandon its ambitions by the Punctation of Olmütz (Nov. 29, 1850).
		Northern East Prussia was annexed by the Soviet Union; the rest of the Land east of the Oder-Neisse line was transferred to Poland; and the remainder was divided between the Soviet, British, and French zones of occupation.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Prussia/Prussia.html (2679 words)

	West Prussia
		The Prussian province of West Prussia (Westpreussen) was formed in 1773 from lands annexed by Prussia after the first partition of Poland in 1772.
		(1) In 1824 the Oberpräsident of East Prussia also became head of the province of West Prussia and in 1829 both provinces were merged into the Province of Prussia.
		It consisted of : - the former Free City of Danzig, - the Kreise Elbing-Land and Elbing-Stadt transferred from East Prussia, - territories annexed from occupied Poland.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/West_Prussia.html (934 words)

	West Prussia: Brief History - Knowledge Base, HouseofNames.com
		West Prussia was situated on the Vistula River, between Brandenburg-Prussia and East Prussia.
		Similar to East Prussia, West Prussia was originally a Prussian territory under the duchy of Pomerelien, but it was incorporated into the Empire of the Teutonic Knights, in 1309.
		In 1466, West Prussia became a class state, a state that had a form of government that worked by mutual agreement between the different levels of society under the Polish monarch: the nobility, church, the citizens, and the free landholders.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/sId./kbId.141/qx/knowledgebase.htm (356 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)

	Prussia History
		Under the influence of Lutheran thinking, the Kingdom of Prussia was one of the first states in the world to install free universal school in the 18th century.
		In 1853, Prince Adalbert of Prussia arranged the Jade Treaty [Jade-Vertrag] with the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, in which Prussia and the grand duchy entered into a contract: 3.13 km² of Oldenburgian territory at the Jadebusen should be ceded to Prussia.
		To the west of Warmia is Pomesania, to the south Chełmno Land, Sassinia and Galindia (later called Masuria) and to the east Sambia.
	www.prussiahistory.info (1895 words)

	The Schwerdtfeger / Schwert Families --- Maps of the Danzig Region, West Prussia
		West Prussia (1882) - Scanned from Blackie & Sons Atlas (Edinburgh, 1882).
		West and East Prussia (1896) - This map is from a comprehensive series of maps available at Hauke Fehlberg's Genealogy in Historical Eastern Germany.
		West and East Prussia (1899) - Scanned by D.P. Schwert from Andrees Handatlas (Leipzig, 1899).
	schwertfamily.net /maps_west_prussia.htm (272 words)

	Adalbert Goertz: FAQ.Westpreussen - West Prussia
		The original (East and West) Prussia was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland and Russia.
		The concept of Kreis was different in pre-1806 Prussia and referred to the Rittergut districts of the noble families ("Die Adeligen Kreise").
		A23: The Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (GStAPK) in Berlin-Dahlem is the central archives of Prussia.
	users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faqwpr.html (4323 words)

	Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Prussia, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Like Posen-West Prussia 1920-1935, but with coat of arms, consisting of a silver field with a fl Prussian eagle, emerging from the neck is a silver arm with armor grasping a silver sword.
		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).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-pr19-.html (757 words)

	Westpreußen / West 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-Ämter.
		In 1871 Germany as an empire with a Kaiser was re-established with Berlin as the capital of Germany and Prussia and with the Prussian king also having the title of German Kaiser.
		All monarchies in Germany were abolished in 1918 and Prussia was declared defunct in 1945 by the Allied victors.
	www.genealogienetz.de /reg/WPRU/wprus.html (1731 words)

	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.
	www.polishroots.org /genpoland/eastpr.htm (479 words)

	Search Results for "West Prussia"
		...Baltic Sea, between Pomerania on the west and East Prussia on the east.
		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...
		...The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in Masuria).
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=West+Prussia (258 words)

	West Prussia at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		West Prussia was a province (1772–1824 and 1878–1918) of the 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 both the eastern remainder (which in the meanwhile was joined to the Prussian province of East Prussia), and the western remainder (which in the meanwhile formed Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia) in 1945.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /West_Prussia.html (259 words)

	Prussian Mennonite Genealogical Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mennonites in the Przechowka area, West Prussia, compiled by Adalbert Goertz.
		Mennonite Deaths in the Catholic Church Records of Schöneberg, West Prussia (1749-1761), extracted by Glenn Penner.
		Mennonites in the Catholic Burial Register of Tiegenhagen, West Prussia (1757-1770), extracted by Glenn Penner, (87K).
	www.mmhs.org /prussia/mmhsgen3.htm (1304 words)

	Descendants of Jan Ignatz Gbur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		February 10, 1857 in Pottlitz, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, son of Jan Renspies and Elenor Kadau.
		February 02, 1864 in Pottlitz, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, daughter of Wawrezyniec Markiewicz and Agnes Mir.
		Gbur, born January 25, 1865 in Potulice, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia; died 1962.
	www.gabers.com /FamilyTree/GBUR.htm (3519 words)

	West Prussia
		Ice sheet maximum limit of the Vistulian Glaciation in the mid-eastern Chelmno-Dobrzyn Lakeland, northern Poland Wojciech WYSOTA The maximum extent of the Vistulian Glaciation in the mid-eastern Chelmno-Dobrzyn Lakeland fell on the Maximum Phase of the Main Substage (ca.20-18 ka BP).
		Two glacial lobes became distinct within the ice sheet during the maximum phase: the Brynsk lobe in the west (unfrozen to the bed, with its ice front in steady-state conditions), and the Lidzbark Welski lobe in the east (with complex thermal conditions).
		On the west side of the Wel River there are the fields of Ciechanówko Village and there is a small (about 3 ha) protected ecological area KUROJADY encircling a meander of the Wel River.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~kobie/wprussia.htm (2076 words)

	Adalbert Goertz: FAQ.prussia (Preußssen)
		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.
	users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faq.prussia.html (4863 words)

	WEST PRUSSIA (Ger. Wes... - Online Information article about WEST PRUSSIA (Ger. Wes...
		bes (q.v.), nearly all of whom (less than 200,000) live in W. Prussia, chiefly in the west, from Putzig to Konitz, are here reckoned with the Poles.
		West Prussia, with the exception of See also:
		partition of Poland in 1772, when it was given to Prussia with the exception of Danzig and Thorn, which Poland retained till 1793.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WEST_PRUSSIA_Ger_Westpreussen_.html (862 words)

	Prussia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prussia a separate branch or province, administered by the
		Herzog von Preussen (duke of Prussia), as a vassal of the king
		East Prussia (Allenstein) - to Poland (annexed 26 Dec 1945).
	www.vdiest.nl /Europa/prussia.htm (3345 words)

	West Prussia home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This area of northern Poland previously known as Royal Prussia was known as West Prussia after 1772.
		She was born November 23, 1723 in Preuss Friedland Parish, West Prussia, and died Bef.
		In 1772 the Prussia, Russia, and Austria partitioned Poland and both Royal Prussia and West Prussia were incorporated into Prussia.
	www.cba.hawaii.edu /remus/genes/WPrussia/home.htm (2270 words)

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