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- The province was established following the Poznań Uprising of 1848 as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, which in turn was annexed by Prussia in 1815 from Duchy of Warsaw. It became part of the German Empire in 1871.
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With the unification of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the Province of Posen became part of the German Empire, and the city of Posen was officially named an imperial residence city.
In 1938, the northern part of the dissolved Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia became part of the province. At the turn of the 20th century, the total population of the province of almost 1.7 million inhabitants had a Polish-speaking minority of less than 1%.
1871: With the unification of Germany following the Franco-Prussian War, became part of the German Empire. The struggle known as the Kulturkampf began. The German Government, under Otto von Bismarck, attacked Catholics and Poles together in a rapid succession of laws.
Luckily, Poznan sprung back at the end of the 18th century, and settlers from German and Dutch lands came to the city and enriched its cultural development even more. When Poland was partitioned in 1793, Poznan fell to the Kingdom of Prussia, and became the capital of South Prussia.
The Grand Duchy of Posen (German: Großherzogtum Posen; Polish: Wielkie Księstwo Poznańskie) was part of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from territories annexed by Prussia after the Partitions of Poland, and formally established following the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
Posen was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1848 after the Greater Poland Uprising, converted from the Grand Duchy of Posen annexed by Prussia in the Polish partitions of 1815, and became part of the German Empire in 1871.
After World War I, Posen was briefly part of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany and was an important theater of the Greater Poland Uprising, but was dissolved in 1920 when most of its territory was ceded to the Second Polish Republic under the Treaty of Versailles.
