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5 giorni fa · The imposed Second Peace of Thorn (1466) split Prussia into the western Royal Prussia, becoming a province of Poland, and the eastern part, called the Duchy of Prussia from 1525, a feudal fief of the Crown of Poland up to 1657.
1 giorno fa · The country was promoted to the status of grand duchy and received considerable new territories, principally the Duchy of Westphalia. After the French defeat in 1815, the grand duchy joined the new German Confederation. Westphalia was taken by Prussia, but Hesse received Rhenish Hesse in return.
2 giorni fa · The Duchy of Pomerania (German: Herzogtum Pommern; Polish: Księstwo pomorskie; Latin: Ducatus Pomeraniae) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins).
3 mag 2024 · Prussia. Opolskie. Silesia, Poland. Silesia, historical region located mainly in what is now Poland, shown before the First Silesian War, 1740. (more) Silesia, historical region that is now in southwestern Poland.
6 giorni fa · Residing until 1643 not in Brandenburg, the heartland of his domain, but rather in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the capital of the remote Duchy of Prussia, the Elector at first pursued a policy of cautious neutrality in order to escape the pressure of the rival powers.
5 mag 2024 · Catherine the Great (born April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland]—died November 6 [November 17], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia) was a German-born empress of Russia (1762–96) who led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe ...
4 mag 2024 · As part of this arrangement, the Duchy of Luxembourg was elevated to the rank of a Grand Duchy and granted to the House of Orange-Nassau. This decision solidified Luxembourg's status as a sovereign state with its own monarch, separate from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
