Prussia (/ˈprʌʃə/, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ; Old Prussian: Prūsija, Prūsa) was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from...
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of Poland. West Prussia was dissolved in 1829 and merged with East Prussia to form the Province of Prussia, but was re-established in 1878 when the merger...
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Frederick the Great (redirect from Frederick II "the Great", King in Prussia)
monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after...
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recovered by the Kingdom of Prussia and subsequently re-organized into the province of West Prussia. This occurred at the time of the First Partition of...
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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...
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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...
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Look up Prussia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prussia (German: Preußen) was a German state that formed the German Empire in 1871. Prussia or Prussian...
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were not included in the Second Polish Republic. Posen–West Prussia was established in 1922 as a province of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany...
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William I, German Emperor (redirect from William I (of Germany and Prussia))
9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern...
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Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 till his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuchâtel. Born in Berlin, he was raised...
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Königsberg (redirect from Konigsberg, Prussia)
of the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia and the provinces of East Prussia and Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the...
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House of Hohenzollern (redirect from Prince christian ludwig of prussia)
Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family came from the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the late 11th...
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King of Prussia (also KOP) is a census-designated place in Upper Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community took...
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successor to the Kingdom of Prussia after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, it continued to be the dominant state in Germany during the Weimar...
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Prussia and its predecessor, Brandenburg-Prussia, were involved in numerous conflicts during their existence as nation-states. During their military engagements...
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Brandenburg-Prussia (German: Brandenburg-Preußen; Low German: Brannenborg-Preußen) is the historiographic denomination for the early modern realm of the...
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landed nobility in Prussia. They owned great estates that were maintained and worked by peasants with few rights. These estates often lay in the countryside...
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The King of Prussia Inn is a historic tavern in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The original...
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List of ambassadors of the United States to Germany (redirect from List of United States ambassadors to Prussia)
During J.Q, Adams tenure in Prussia / Sweden, he re-negotiated and renewed the earlier Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Prussia-United States) of September...
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Frederick III, German Emperor (redirect from Frederick III of Prussia)
Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 1831 – 15 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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designed for nuclear warheads at the Re-Entry Division of the General Electric Space Technology Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The members of the...
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1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, was king of Prussia from 7 June 1840 until his death on 2 January 1861. Also referred...
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State of the Teutonic Order (redirect from Prussia under the Teutonic Order)
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...
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Seven Years' War (redirect from Great Britain in the Seven Years war)
great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led...
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Prussian Union of Churches (redirect from Evangelical Church in Prussia)
emerged in 1817 from a series of decrees by Frederick William III of Prussia that united both Lutheran and Reformed denominations in Prussia. Although...
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Congress of Vienna, the Prussian lands were re-arranged into ten provinces, three of them—East Prussia, West Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Posen—beyond the...
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The Landtag of Prussia (German: Preußischer Landtag) was the representative assembly of the Kingdom of Prussia implemented in 1849, a bicameral legislature...
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Frederick William II of Prussia and Princess Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. He served in the Guards from 1799 and fought in 1806 at the head of a...
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Province of Posen (category 1848 establishments in Prussia)
Second Polish Republic. The remaining German territory was re-organized into Posen-West Prussia in 1922. Posen (present-day Poznań, Poland) was the provincial...
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Brandenburg (redirect from List of places in Brandenburg)
of the later Kingdom of Prussia. From 1815 to 1947, Brandenburg was a province of Prussia. Following the abolition of Prussia after World War II, Brandenburg...
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