West Prussia, the Glossary
The Province of West Prussia (Provinz Westpreußen; Zôpadné Prësë; Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1919.[1]
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219 relations: Administration of West Prussia before 1919, Andrzej Chwalba, Austrian Empire, Autonomy, Świecie, Świecie County, Baltic Sea, Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, Biały Bór, Brandenburg–Prussia, Brodnica, Brodnica County, Burgher (social class), Casimir III the Great, Chełmno, Chełmno County, Chełmno Land, Chełmno Voivodeship, Chojnice, Chojnice County, Christopher Clark, Congress of Vienna, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Czarne, Człopa, Człuchów, Człuchów County, Danzig (region), Danziger Höhe, Debrzno, Deluge (history), Deutsch Krone (district), Disfranchisement, Districts of Germany, Districts of Prussia, Duchy of Prussia, Duchy of Warsaw, East Prussia, Eastern Front (World War II), Elbląg, Elbląg County, Ethnicity, Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany, Extermination camp, Fief, First French Empire, First Partition of Poland, Flatow (district), Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), Frankfurt Parliament, ... Expand index (169 more) »
- 1773 establishments in Prussia
- 1829 disestablishments in Prussia
- 1878 establishments in Germany
- 1922 disestablishments in Germany
- Provinces of Prussia
- States and territories established in 1773
Administration of West Prussia before 1919
The Administration of West Prussia before 1919 consisted of the following officials.
See West Prussia and Administration of West Prussia before 1919
Andrzej Chwalba
Andrzej Chwalba (born 1949 in Częstochowa) is a Polish historian.
See West Prussia and Andrzej Chwalba
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
See West Prussia and Austrian Empire
Autonomy
In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
Świecie
Świecie (Schwetz) is a town in northern Poland with 24,841 inhabitants (2023), capital of Świecie County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Świecie County
Świecie County (powiat świecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
See West Prussia and Świecie County
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
See West Prussia and Baltic Sea
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt (older spelling: Auerstädt) were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the river Saale in today's Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia.
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Biały Bór
Biały Bór (Baldenburg) is a town in Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,226 inhabitants as of December 2021.
See West Prussia and Biały Bór
Brandenburg–Prussia
Brandenburg-Prussia (Brandenburg-Preußen) is the historiographic denomination for the early modern realm of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollerns between 1618 and 1701.
See West Prussia and Brandenburg–Prussia
Brodnica
Brodnica (Strasburg in Westpreußen or Strasburg an der Drewenz) is a town in northern Poland with 28,574 inhabitants.
Brodnica County
Brodnica County (powiat brodnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
See West Prussia and Brodnica County
Bürgher was a rank or title of a privileged citizen of a medieval to early modern European town.
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Casimir III the Great
Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370.
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Chełmno
Chełmno (older Culm; Kulm, formerly also Culm) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021.
Chełmno County
Chełmno County (powiat chełmiński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
See West Prussia and Chełmno County
Chełmno Land
Chełmno land (ziemia chełmińska, Culmer Land or Kulmerland, Old Prussian: Kulma) is a part of the historical region of Pomerelia, located in central-northern Poland.
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Chełmno Voivodeship
The Chełmno Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 1454/1466 until the Partitions of Poland in 1772/1793.
See West Prussia and Chełmno Voivodeship
Chojnice
Chojnice (or Chòjnice; Konitz or Conitz) is a town in northern Poland with 38,789 inhabitants, as of June 2023, near the Tuchola Forest.
Chojnice County
Chojnice County (Chòniczzi kréz, powiat chojnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
See West Prussia and Chojnice County
Christopher Clark
Clark was educated at Sydney Grammar School from 1972 to 1978, the University of Sydney (where he studied history) and the Freie Universität Berlin from 1985 to 1987.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state.
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Czarne
Czarne (Hammerstein) is a town in Człuchów County of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland.
Człopa
Człopa (Schloppe) is a town in Wałcz County of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.
Człuchów
Człuchów (Człochòwo, or Człëchòwò; Schlochau) is a town in the region of Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 13,350 inhabitants as of December 2021.
Człuchów County
Człuchów County (Człëchòwsczi kréz, powiat człuchowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
See West Prussia and Człuchów County
Danzig (region)
Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder The Danzig Region (Regierungsbezirk Danzig) was a government region, within the Prussian Provinces of West Prussia and Prussia.
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Danziger Höhe
The Danziger Höhe (i.e. Danzig Heights; Kreis Danziger Höhe) was an administrative district founded in 1887 and dissolved in 1939.
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Debrzno
Debrzno (historically: Frydląd Pomorski;, Fréląd, or Frëdląd; Preußisch Friedland) is a town in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Deluge (history)
The Deluge (potop szwedzki; švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Deutsch Krone (district)
The district of Deutsch Krone (German: Landkreis Deutsch Krone) was a district in Prussia from 1772 to 1945.
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Disfranchisement
Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing someone from exercising the right to vote.
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Districts of Germany
In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a Gemeinde (municipality) is the Landkreis or Kreis.
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Districts of Prussia
Prussian districts (lit) were administrative units in the former Kingdom of Prussia, part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, and its successor state, the Free State of Prussia, similar to a county or a shire.
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Duchy of Prussia
The Duchy of Prussia (Herzogtum Preußen, Księstwo Pruskie, Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (Herzogliches Preußen; Prusy Książęce) was a duchy in the region of Prussia established as a result of secularization of the Monastic Prussia, the territory that remained under the control of the State of the Teutonic Order until the Protestant Reformation in 1525.
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Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw (Księstwo Warszawskie; Duché de Varsovie; Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars.
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East Prussia
East Prussia 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. West Prussia and East Prussia are 1773 establishments in Prussia and provinces of Prussia.
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Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.
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Elbląg
Elbląg (Elbing; script) is a city in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, located in the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 127,390 inhabitants, as of December 2021.
Elbląg County
Elbląg County (powiat elbląski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
See West Prussia and Elbląg County
Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
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Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
The Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany during World War II was a massive operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million Poles from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization (see Lebensraum) between 1939 and 1944.
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Extermination camp
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.
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Fief
A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.
First French Empire
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
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First Partition of Poland
The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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Flatow (district)
The Flatow district was a district that existed from 1818 to 1945 in the Kingdom of Prussia and Germany.
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Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg (Neumark) and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.
See West Prussia and Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
Frankfurt Parliament
The Frankfurt Parliament (Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, literally Frankfurt National Assembly) was the first freely elected parliament for all German states, including the German-populated areas of the Austrian Empire, elected on 1 May 1848 (see German federal election, 1848).
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Frederick III, German Emperor
Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 183115 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors.
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Frederick the Great
Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.
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Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig; Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas.
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Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic)
The Free City of Danzig (French: Ville libre de Dantzig; Freie Stadt Danzig; Wolne Miasto Gdańsk), sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig (French: République de Dantzig; German: Republik Danzig), was a semi-independent city-state established by Napoleon on 21 July 1807, during the time of the Napoleonic Wars following the capture of the city in the siege of Danzig in May.
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Free State of Prussia
The Free State of Prussia (Freistaat Preußen) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1947.
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Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Gdańsk County
Gdańsk County (powiat gdański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
See West Prussia and Gdańsk County
Gdańsk Pomerania
Gdańsk Pomerania (Pomorze Gdańskie; Gduńsczim Pòmòrzã; Danziger Pommern) is the main geographical region within Pomerelia (also known as Vistula Pomerania, Eastern Pomerania, and previously Polish Pomerania) in northern and northwestern Poland, covering the bulk of Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Gdynia
Gdynia (Gdiniô; Gdingen, Gotenhafen) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast.
German Confederation
The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
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German Empire (1848–1849)
The German Empire (Deutsches Reich) was a proto-state which attempted, but ultimately failed, to unify the German states within the German Confederation to create a German nation-state.
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Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions
After partitioning Poland at the end of the 18th century, the Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting the Polish ethnic presence and culture in these areas.
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Germans
Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Grand Duchy of Posen
The Grand Duchy of Posen (Großherzogtum Posen; 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. West Prussia and Grand Duchy of Posen are provinces of Prussia.
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Greater Poland
Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical region of west-central Poland.
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Grudziądz
Grudziądz (Graudentum, Graudentium, Graudenz) is a city in northern Poland, with 92,552 inhabitants (2021).
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Grudziądz County
Grudziądz County (powiat grudziądzki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
See West Prussia and Grudziądz County
History of Canada (1763–1867)
Starting with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, New France, of which the colony of Canada was a part, formally became a part of the British Empire.
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History of Pomerania
The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD, with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polan rulers.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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House of Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (Haus Hohenzollern,; Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania.
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Iława County
Iława County (powiat iławski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
See West Prussia and Iława County
Intelligenzaktion Pommern
The Intelligenzaktion PommernStefan Sutkowski (2001), The history of music in Poland: The Contemporary Era. West Prussia and Intelligenzaktion Pommern are history of Pomerania.
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Iroquois
The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.
Janowo, Kwidzyn County
Janowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kwidzyn, within Kwidzyn County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
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Jastrowie
Jastrowie (Jastrow) is a town in northwestern Poland of approximately 9,000 inhabitants in Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Karl Andree
Karl Andree (20 October 1808 – 10 August 1875) was a German geographer, publicist and consul.
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Kartuzy
Kartuzy (Kartuzë, Kartëzë or Kartuzé; former Karthaus) is a town in northern Poland, located in the historic Eastern Pomerania (Pomerelia) region.
Kartuzy County
Kartuzy County (powiat kartuski; kartësczi pòwiat) is a county in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with administrative seat and largest town being Kartuzy.
See West Prussia and Kartuzy County
Kashubians
The Kashubians (Kaszëbi; Kaszubi; Kaschuben), also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic (West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Pomerania, including its eastern part called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland. West Prussia and Kashubians are history of Pomerania.
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Königsberg
Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.
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Kościerzyna
Kościerzyna (Pomeranian and Kòscérzëna; former Berent) is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with 23,327 inhabitants as of June 2023.
See West Prussia and Kościerzyna
Kościerzyna County
Kościerzyna County (Kòscérsczi kréz, powiat kościerski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
See West Prussia and Kościerzyna County
Krajenka
Krajenka (Krojanke) is a town in the Greater Poland Voivodeship of Poland.
Kreis Berent
The Berent district was a Prussian district that existed from 1818 to 1920.
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Kreis Dirschau
Kreis Dirschau was a Prussian district which existed with varying borders from 1772 to 1818 and from 1887 to 1920.
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Kreis Karthaus
The Karthaus district was a Prussian district that existed from 1818 to 1920.
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Kreis Kulm
The district of Kulm was a Prussian district in the Marienwerder administrative region, which existed from 1772 to 1920.
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Kreis Löbau (West Prussia)
The Löbau district (Kreis Löbau) was a Prussian district in the Marienwerder administrative region that existed from 1818 to 1920.
See West Prussia and Kreis Löbau (West Prussia)
Kreis Marienburg (West Prussia)
The Marienburg district was a Prussian district that existed from 1772 to 1945.
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Kreis Preußisch Stargard
The Preußisch Stargard district was a Prussian district that existed from 1772 to 1920 with varying borders.
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Kreis Rosenberg in Westpreußen
The district of Rosenberg in Westpreußen was a Prussian district that existed from 1818 to 1945.
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Kreis Schwetz
Kreis Schwetz was a Prussian district that existed from 1818 to 1920, with its capital at Schwetz.
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Kreis Stuhm
The Stuhm district was a Prussian district that existed between 1818 and 1945.
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Kreis Tuchel
The Tuchel district was a Prussian district in Germany that existed from 1875 to 1920.
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Kulturkampf
In the history of Germany, the Kulturkampf (Cultural Struggle) was the seven-year political conflict (1871–1878) between the Catholic Church in Germany, led by Pope Pius IX; and the Kingdom of Prussia, led by chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
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Kuyavia
Kuyavia (Kujawy; Kujawien; Cuiavia), also referred to as Cuyavia, is a historical region in north-central Poland, situated on the left bank of Vistula, as well as east from Noteć River and Lake Gopło.
Kwidzyn
Kwidzyn (Marienwerder; Latin: Quedin; Old Prussian: Kwēdina) is a town in northern Poland on the Liwa River.
Kwidzyn County
Kwidzyn County (powiat kwidzyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Labor camp
A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment.
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Landkreis Graudenz
The district of Graudenz was a Prussian district in the administrative region of Marienwerder that existed from 1818 to 1920.
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Landkreis Thorn
The district of Thorn was a Prussian district in the Marienwerder administrative region that existed from 1818 to 1920.
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Landsmannschaft Westpreußen
The Landsmannschaft Westpreußen ("Territorial Association of West Prussia", "Homeland Association of West Prussia") is an organization of Heimatvertriebene — Germans born in West Prussia, or their descendants, who either fled or were expelled to the Federal Republic of Germany during the Expulsion of Germans after World War II.
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Lauenburg and Bütow Land
Lauenburg and Bütow Land (Länder or italic, Lãbòrskò-bëtowskô Zemia, Ziemia lęborsko-bytowska) formed a historical region in the western part of Pomerelia (Polish and papal historiography) or in the eastern part of Farther Pomerania (German historiography). West Prussia and Lauenburg and Bütow Land are history of Pomerania.
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Lędyczek
Lędyczek (Landeck in Westpreußen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Okonek, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in northwestern Poland.
Lechites
Lechites (Lechiten), also known as the Lechitic tribes (Lechitische Stämme), is a name given to certain West Slavic tribes who inhabited modern-day Poland and eastern Germany, and were speakers of the Lechitic languages.
Lizard Union (medieval)
The Lizard Union or Lizard League (Eidechsenbund; Związek Jaszczurczy) was an organization of Prussian nobles and knights established in Culmerland (Chełmno Land) in 1397.
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Lubawa
Lubawa (Löbau in Westpreußen, Old Prussian: Lūbawa) is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
Lubawa County
Lubawa County was once a county in what is now Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, with its capital in Lubawa.
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Malbork
Malbork is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Malbork County
Malbork County (powiat malborski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Malbork Voivodeship
The Malbork Voivodeship (Województwo malborskie), after Partitions of Poland also referred to as the Malbork Land (Polish: Ziemia malborska), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1454/1466 until the Partitions of Poland in 1772–1795.
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Margraviate of Brandenburg
The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.
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Marienwerder (district)
Landkreis Marienwerder was a Kreis, or district, of Prussia from 1752 to 1945.
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Marienwerder (region)
Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder The Marienwerder Region was a government region (Regierungsbezirk) of Prussia from 1815 until 1920 and again 1939-1945.
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Masovians
Masovians, also spelled as Mazovians, and historically known as Masurians, is an ethnographic group of Polish people that originates from the region of Masovia, located mostly within borders of the Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
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Mennonites
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Mirosławiec
Mirosławiec (Märkisch Friedland; Frédlądk) is a town in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,837 inhabitants (2007).
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National identity
National identity is a person's identity or sense of belonging to one or more states or one or more nations.
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Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Netze District
The Netze District or District of the Netze (Netzedistrikt or Netze-Distrikt; Obwód Nadnotecki) was a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 until 1807.
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Neustadt District, West Prussia
The Neustadt district was a Prussian district that existed from 1818 to 1920.
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Nogat
The Nogat is a 62 km long delta branch of the Vistula River in northern Poland.
North German Confederation
The North German Confederation (Norddeutscher Bund) was initially a German military alliance established in August 1866 under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was transformed in the subsequent year into a confederated state (a de facto federal state) that existed from July 1867 to December 1870.
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North German Confederation Treaty
The North German Confederation Treaty (in German Augustbündnis, or Alliance of August) (also called the North German Federation Treaty and the Treaty of 18 August 1866) was the treaty between the Kingdom of Prussia and other northern and central German states that initially created the North German Confederation, which was the forerunner to the German Empire.
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Official
An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private).
Old Prussians
Old Prussians, Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians were a Baltic people that inhabited the region of Prussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and the Curonian Lagoon to the east.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Partition Sejm
The Partition Sejm (Sejm Rozbiorowy) was a Sejm lasting from 1773 to 1775 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, convened by its three neighbours (the Russian Empire, Prussia and Austria) in order to legalize their First Partition of Poland.
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Personal union
A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct.
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Pogesanians
Pogesanians were a Prussian tribe, which lived in the region of Pogesania (Pogezania; Pagudė; Pogesanien; Pogesania), a small territory stretched between the Elbląg and Pasłęka rivers, now located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Polish–Teutonic Wars
Polish–Teutonic Wars refer to a series of conflicts that took place between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order, a medieval German military order with roots in the Baltic region.
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Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772)
The Pomeranian Voivodeship (Województwo pomorskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1454/1466 until the First partition of Poland in 1772.
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Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939)
The Pomeranian Voivodeship or Pomorskie Voivodeship (Województwo Pomorskie) was an administrative unit of Interwar poland (from 1919 to 1939).
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Pomeranians (tribe)
The Pomeranians (Pomoranen; Pòmòrzónie; Pomorzanie), first mentioned as such in the 10th century, were a West Slavic tribe, which from the 5th to the 6th centuries had settled at the shore of the Baltic Sea between the mouths of the Oder and Vistula Rivers (the latter Farther Pomerania and Pomerelia). West Prussia and Pomeranians (tribe) are history of Pomerania.
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Pomerelia
Pomerelia, also known as Eastern Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania, and also before World War II as Polish Pomerania, is a historical sub-region of Pomerania on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland. West Prussia and Pomerelia are history of Pomerania.
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Pomesanians
Pomesanians were a Prussian clan.
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Posen–West Prussia
The Frontier March of Posen–West Prussia (Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen; Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska) was a province of Prussia from 1920/1922 to 1938, covering most of lands of historical Greater Poland that were not included in the Second Polish Republic. West Prussia and Posen–West Prussia are provinces of Prussia.
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Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement (Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement among three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union after the war ended in Europe on 1 August 1945 and it was published the next day.
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Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802)
Prince Frederick Henry Louis of Prussia (Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig; 18 January 1726 – 3 August 1802) was a Prussian general, statesman, and diplomat.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Province of Pomerania (1653–1815)
The Province of Pomerania was a province of Brandenburg-Prussia, the later Kingdom of Prussia. West Prussia and province of Pomerania (1653–1815) are provinces of Prussia.
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Province of Posen
The Province of Posen (Provinz Posen; Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland. West Prussia and province of Posen are provinces of Prussia.
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Province of Prussia
The Province of Prussia (Prowincja Prusy; Prowincjô Prësë) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1824 to 1878. West Prussia and province of Prussia are provinces of Prussia.
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Provinces of Prussia
The Provinces of Prussia (Provinzen Preußens) were the main administrative divisions of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Prussian Confederation
The Prussian Confederation (Preußischer Bund, Związek Pruski) was an organization formed on 21 February 1440 at Kwidzyn (then officially Marienwerder) by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia, to oppose the arbitrariness of the Teutonic Knights.
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Prussian estates
The Prussian estates (Preußischer Landtag, Stany pruskie) were representative bodies of Prussia, first created by the Monastic state of Teutonic Prussia in the 14th century (around the 1370s)Daniel Stone, A History of Central Europe, University of Washington Press, 2001,, but later becoming a devolved legislature for Royal Prussia within the Kingdom of Poland.
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Prussian Homage
The Prussian Homage or Prussian Tribute (Preußische Huldigung; hołd pruski) was the formal investiture of Albert of Prussia with the Duchy of Prussia as a fief of the Kingdom of Poland that took place on 10 April 1525 in Kraków, Poland.
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Prussian Settlement Commission
The Prussian Settlement Commission, officially known as the Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in the Provinces West Prussia and Posen (Königlich Preußische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreußen und Posen; Królewska Komisja Osadnicza dla Prus Zachodnich i Poznańskiego) was a Prussian government commission that operated between 1886 and 1924, but actively only until 1918.
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Puck County
Puck County (powiat pucki, pùcczi pòwiat) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast.
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Puck, Poland
Puck (Pùckò, Pùck, Pëck, formerly Putzig) is a town in northern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
Regierungsbezirk
A Regierungsbezirk means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany.
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Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany created on 8 October 1939 from annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, the Greater Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish Corridor), and the ''Regierungsbezirk'' West Prussia of Gau East Prussia.
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Royal Prussia
Royal Prussia (Prusy Królewskie; Königlich-Preußen or Preußen Königlichen Anteils, Królewsczé Prësë) or Polish PrussiaAnton Friedrich Büsching, Patrick Murdoch. West Prussia and Royal Prussia are history of Pomerania.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Schlochau (district)
Kreis Schlochau (Landkreis Schlochau as of 1939) was a Kreis, or district, of Prussia from 1818-1945.
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Second Partition of Poland
The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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Second Peace of Thorn (1466)
The Peace of Thorn or Toruń of 1466, also known as the Second Peace of Thorn or Toruń (drugi pokój toruński; Zweiter Friede von Thorn), was a peace treaty signed in the Hanseatic city of Thorn (Toruń) on 19 October 1466 between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon and the Teutonic Knights, which ended the Thirteen Years' War, the longest of the Polish–Teutonic Wars. West Prussia and Second Peace of Thorn (1466) are history of Pomerania.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Secularization
In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Starogard County
Starogard County (powiat starogardzki, Starogarda kréj) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Starogard Gdański
Starogard Gdański (until 1950: Starogard; Starogarda; formerly Preußisch Stargard) is a city in Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland with 48,328 inhabitants (2004). West Prussia and Starogard Gdański are history of Pomerania.
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Starostwo of Draheim
Starostwo of Draheim or Drahim (starostwo drahimskie, Starostei Draheim) was a starostwo (crown territory) of the Polish kingdom from the 15th century, seated in Draheim. West Prussia and starostwo of Draheim are history of Pomerania.
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State of the Teutonic Order
The State of the Teutonic Order (Civitas Ordinis Theutonici) was a theocratic state located along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. It was formed by the knights of the Teutonic Order during the early 13th century Northern Crusades in the region of Prussia. In 1237, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword merged with the Teutonic Order of Prussia and became known as its branch — the Livonian Order (while their state, Terra Mariana, covering present-day Estonia and Latvia, became part of the State of the Teutonic Order).
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Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-annexed Free City of Danzig.
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Susz
Susz (Rosenberg in Westpreußen) is a town in Iława County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, with 5,600 inhabitants (2004).
Szlachta
The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.
Sztum
Sztum (formerly Stuhm) is a town in northern Poland in the Powiśle region, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Sztum County
Sztum County (powiat sztumski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Tczew
Tczew (Dërszewò; formerly Dirschau) is a city on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021).
Tczew County
Tczew County (Powiat Tczewski, Dërszewo kréj) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
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Teutonic Order
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)
This is the 1308 Polish-Teutonic War.
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Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466)
This is the 1454-1466 Polish-Teutonic War.
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Toruń
Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Toruń County
Toruń County (powiat toruński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
See West Prussia and Toruń County
Treaties of Tilsit
The Treaties of Tilsit, also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit, were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland, at the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition.
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Treaty of Bromberg
The Treaty of Bromberg (Latin: Pacta Bydgostensia) or Treaty of Bydgoszcz was a treaty between John II Casimir of Poland and Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia that was ratified at Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) on 6 November 1657.
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Treaty of Kraków
The Treaty of Kraków was signed on 8 April 1525 between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.
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Tuchola
Tuchola (Tuchel; Tëchòlô) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland.
Tuchola County
Tuchola County (powiat tucholski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
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Tuczno
Tuczno (Tütz, earlier Tietz) is a town and former pre-diocesan Catholic see in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland, with 2,014 inhabitants (2004).
Unification of Germany
The unification of Germany was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).
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Union of Lublin
The Union of Lublin (Unia lubelska; Liublino unija) was signed on 1 July 1569 in Lublin, Poland, and created a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest countries in Europe at the time.
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Union of Poles in Germany
Union of Poles in Germany (Związek Polaków w Niemczech, Bund der Polen in Deutschland e.V.) is an organisation of the Polish minority in Germany, founded in 1922.
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Untermensch
Untermensch (plural: Untermenschen) is a German language word literally meaning 'underman', 'sub-man', or 'subhuman', that was extensively used by Germany's Nazi Party to refer to non-Aryan people they deemed as inferior.
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Vistula
The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.
Vorkuta
Vorkuta (Воркута́; Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin at the river Vorkuta.
Wałcz
Wałcz (pronounced; Deutsch Krone) is a county town in Wałcz County of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.
Wałcz County
Wałcz County (powiat wałecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland.
See West Prussia and Wałcz County
Warmia
Warmia (Warmia; Latin: Varmia, Warmia; Ermland; Warmian: Warńija; Old Prussian: Wārmi) is both a historical and an ethnographic region in northern Poland, forming part of historical Prussia.
Wąbrzeźno
Wąbrzeźno (Briesen) is a town in northern Poland, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, about northeast of Toruń.
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Wąbrzeźno County
Wąbrzeźno County (powiat wąbrzeski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland.
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Władysław I Łokietek
Władysław I Łokietek, in English known as the "Elbow-high" or Ladislaus the Short (c. 1260/12 March 1333), was King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding years.
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Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
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Wejherowo
Wejherowo (Wejrowò; formerly Neustadt in Westpreußen) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 48,735 inhabitants (2021).
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Wejherowo County
Wejherowo County (Wejrowsczi kréz, powiat wejherowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast.
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Westpreußenlied
"" (English: West Prussia Song) was the anthem of the Prussian province of West Prussia from 1878 to its dissolution in 1920.
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Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Złotów
Złotów is a town in northwestern Poland, with a population of 18,303 inhabitants (2011), seat of the Złotów County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Złotów County
Złotów County (powiat złotowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland.
See West Prussia and Złotów County
1569
Year 1569 (MDLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
1793
The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I.
1920 East Prussian plebiscite
The East Prussian plebiscite (Abstimmung in Ostpreußen), also known as the Allenstein and Marienwerder plebiscite or Warmia, Masuria and Powiśle plebiscite (Plebiscyt na Warmii, Mazurach i Powiślu), was a plebiscite for the self-determination of the regions of southern Warmia (Ermland), Masuria (Mazury, Masuren) and Powiśle, which had been in parts of the East Prussian Government Region of Allenstein and of the West Prussian Government Region of Marienwerder in accordance with Articles 94 to 97 of the Treaty of Versailles.
See West Prussia and 1920 East Prussian plebiscite
See also
1773 establishments in Prussia
- East Prussia
- West Prussia
1829 disestablishments in Prussia
- West Prussia
1878 establishments in Germany
- Augsburger Panther
- Bayreuther Blätter
- Bocholt–Wesel railway
- Café Achteck
- Christian Social Party (Germany)
- Cross Eifel Railway
- DSV 78 Hannover
- Feucht–Altdorf railway
- General Walker Hotel
- Heide–Büsum railway
- Historical Museum, Frankfurt
- Hoch Conservatory
- Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
- Kraichgau Railway
- Kurpfälzisches Museum
- Ludwigshafener Ruderverein
- Müllheim–Mulhouse railway
- Mercury and Psyche
- Neuenburg (Baden) station
- Topf and Sons
- West Prussia
1922 disestablishments in Germany
- Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums
- Bavarian Ludwig Railway
- Communist Working Group (Germany)
- Das Plakat (magazine)
- Die Freiheit (1918)
- Excelsior-Mascot
- German Socialist Party
- Germania Flugzeugwerke
- Kaveh (magazine)
- Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik
- Sowjet
- West Prussia
Provinces of Prussia
- East Prussia
- Grand Duchy of Posen
- Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine
- Greater Berlin Act
- Hesse-Nassau
- New East Prussia
- New Silesia
- Oberpräsident
- Posen–West Prussia
- Province of Brandenburg
- Province of Halle-Merseburg
- Province of Hanover
- Province of Hesse-Nassau
- Province of Hohenzollern
- Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
- Province of Kurhessen
- Province of Lower Silesia
- Province of Magdeburg
- Province of Nassau
- Province of Pomerania (1653–1815)
- Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
- Province of Posen
- Province of Prussia
- Province of Saxony
- Province of Schleswig-Holstein
- Province of Silesia
- Province of Upper Silesia
- Province of Westphalia
- Provinces of Prussia
- Rhine Province
- South Prussia
- West Prussia
States and territories established in 1773
- West Prussia
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Prussia
Also known as Province of West Prussia, West Prussia Province, West Prussian, Westpreusen, Westpreussen.
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