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East Prussia [Note 1] was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad).
Aug 9, 2024 · East Prussia, former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). After World War II its territory was divided between the Soviet Union and Poland.
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List of cities and towns in East Prussia, as used before 1945: Landkreis Marienburg (Westpr.) This article is a translation of the German Wikipedia's Liste der Städte in Ostpreußen article.
Dec 13, 2021 · East Prussia was one of these gaue, and it was expanded to include the Memel Territory from Lithuania and some occupied Polish territory. But it was no longer an exclave, with West Prussia (Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen) and Posen (Reichsgau Wartheland) having been reincorporated into the Reich.
Dec 5, 2022 · Geographical Location Today. After a new administrative reform on 1 January 1999 in the southern part of Poland, the area has been, almost in its entirety, the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship with the capital Olsztyn. The former Northeast Prussia today forms the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad with the capital Kaliningrad .
Prussia, in European history, any of three historical areas of eastern and central Europe. It is most often associated with the kingdom ruled by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, which claimed much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871.
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. In 1945, at the end of World War II, East Prussia was overrun by Soviet troops and about 600,000 of its inhabitants were killed.
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