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The end of Prussia Map of the current states of Germany (in dark green) that are completely or mostly situated inside the old borders of Imperial Germany's Kingdom of Prussia
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.
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The Kingdom of Prussia [a] ( German: Königreich Preußen, pronounced [ˈkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. [5] It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1866 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. [5]
Prussia (Polish: Prusy ⓘ; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Russian: Пруссия ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsa; German: Preußen ⓘ; Latin: Pruthenia/ Prussia / Borussia) is a historical region in Central Europe on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, that ranges from the Vistula delta in the west to the end of the Curonian Spit in the ...
Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. Prussia was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
8 giu 2018 · Places. Germany, Scandinavia, and Central Europe. German Political Geography. Prussia. views 1,241,753 updated Jun 08 2018. PRUSSIA. Prussia has become a byword for Germany, but it originally developed on the southeastern Baltic shore distinct from the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire.
Germany’s defeat at the end of World War I and the overthrow of the empire and the Prussian monarchy also ended Prussia’s supremacy. Prussia—which lost part of Silesia, Posen, West Prussia, Danzig, Memel, northern Schleswig, some small areas on the Belgian frontier, and the Saar district as a result of the Treaty of Versailles or the ensuing plebiscites—became a Land under the Weimar ...
