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2 days ago · The Grand Duchy of Posen was a region in the Kingdom of Prussia in the Polish lands commonly known as "Greater Poland" between the years 1815–1848. According to the Congress of Vienna, it was to have autonomy. In practice, it was subordinated to Prussia and the proclaimed rights for Poles were not respected.
5 days ago · The Hultschiner Ländchen went to Czechoslovakia, large areas of the provinces of Posen and West Prussia became part of the new state of Poland, and East Prussia was separated from the rest of Reich territory by the Polish Corridor. Additional changes were decided by plebiscites.
1 day ago · Poles were treated as an ethnic minority even where they made up the majority, as in the Province of Posen, where a series of anti-Polish measures was enforced. [79] Numerous anti-Polish laws had no great effect especially in the province of Posen where the German-speaking population dropped from 42.8% in 1871 to 38.1% in 1905, despite all efforts.
Oct 12, 2024 · During the Revolutions of 1848 the Frankfurt Parliament attempted to divide the grand duchy, now part of the German Confederation, into two parts: the Province of Posen, which would have been annexed to a to-be-created united Germany, and the Province of Gniezno, which would have remained outside Germany, but because of the protest of Polish parliamentarians these plans failed and the ...
3 days ago · Much of the province of Posen, which, like West Prussia, had been acquired by Prussia in the late 18th-century partitions of Poland, was likewise granted to the restored Polish state. Also transferred from Germany to Poland, as the result of a later plebiscite , was a significant portion of coal-rich and industrially developed Upper Silesia.
Oct 8, 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Galicia, historic region of eastern Europe that was a part of Poland before Austria annexed it in 1772; in the 20th century it was restored to Poland but was later divided between Poland and the Soviet Union. During the Middle Ages, eastern Galicia, situated between Hungary, Poland, and the western.
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Oct 11, 2024 · The Wirsitzer Kreisbahn (Polish: Wyrzyskie Koleje Powiatowe) was a narrow-gauge railway in the Wirsitz district in what was then the Prussian province of Posen (from 1921 Powiat Wyrzysk in the … read more
