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2 giorni fa · Prussia (/ ˈprʌʃə /, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsija, Prūsa[b]) was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. The Knights had to relocate their headquarters to Mergentheim, but still kept their land in ...
- Frederick the Great
Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major...
- Frederick the Great
5 giorni fa · Prussia was a region and a kingdom in eastern and central Europe that played a key role in German unification and modern history. Learn about its origins, development, conflicts, leaders, and legacy from Britannica.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (German: Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed "Old Fritz" (German: der Alte Fritz).
4 giorni fa · History of Europe - Prussia, Enlightenment, Unification: Frederick II had inherited a style of absolute government that owed much to the peculiar circumstances of Brandenburg-Prussia as it emerged from the Thirty Years’ War.
1 giorno fa · The causes of the Franco-Prussian War are rooted in the events surrounding the lead up to the unification of the German states under Otto von Bismarck. France had gained the status of being the dominant power of continental Europe as a result of the Franco-Austrian War of 1859.
- France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
3 giorni fa · Germany - Prussia, Hohenzollerns, Unification: The emergence of the Hohenzollerns of Prussia as rivals of the Habsburgs and the beginning of the Austro-Prussian dualism created the possibility of reversing the process of civic decentralization that had prevailed in Germany since the late Middle Ages. The interests of the territorial ...
21 ore fa · Germany - Prussia, Austria, Contest: In 1740 the death of the Habsburg emperor Charles VI without a male heir unleashed the most embittered conflict in Germany since the wars of Louis XIV. The question of the succession to the Austrian throne had occupied statesmen for decades.
