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    1945–1946) Darkehmen (Ozyorsk today) Goldap (Gołdap today) Gumbinnen [de] (Gusevsky District today) Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk today) Niederung (seat: Heinrichswalde)...
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    (Russian: Гу́сев; German: Gumbinnen; Lithuanian: Gumbinė; Polish: Gąbin) is a town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast...
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    East Prussia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Mohrungen (Ermland) Lithuanian chamber department at Gumbinnen (Gusev) with the districts of: Gumbinnen Insterburg Memel Olecko Ragnit Seehesten (Sensburg)...
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    Prussian Regierungsbezirk out of the southern districts of the two original administrative regions Gumbinnen and Königsberg, which had been established in...
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    Provinces of Prussia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    [1827-1843]); regions: Berlin [de] [until 1821], Frankfurt and Potsdam [de] East Prussia (Königsberg in Prussia); regions: Gumbinnen and Königsberg Pomerania...
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    Darkehmen district to the Gumbinnen district. On 10 August 1876 the rural communities Alt Gurren and Neu Gurren and the Gurren manor district were transferred...
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    (Lower Silesia 1919–1938, 1941–1945) Frankfurt, Province of Brandenburg Gumbinnen, Province of East Prussia Köslin, Province of Pomerania Königsberg, Province...
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    Prussian Lithuanians (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    schools was signed by 12,330 and 23,058 Prussian Lithuanians from the districts of Memel, Heydekrug, Tilsit and Ragnit. In 1921, the French administration...
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    1st Army in the invasion of East Prussia and won an early victory at Gumbinnen in late August 1914, but was relieved of command after defeats at Tannenberg...
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    1920 East Prussian plebiscite (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Allenstein precinct comprised all the Allenstein Region plus the Oletzko District (Gumbinnen Government Region). According to Jerzy Minakowski, the area of the...
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    Kreis Goldap (category Districts of East Prussia)
    September 1818 the new Goldap district was formed in Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen from parts of the old Insterburg district. This included the parishes of...
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    Yorktown, Texas (category Cities in DeWitt County, Texas)
    they were joined by about 70 more immigrants, most from the province of Gumbinnen in what was then part of East Prussia. Leaving their homeland for a variety...
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  • Insterburg in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in East Prussia. Since 1874, Stagutschen belonged to the Jodlauken district (since 1938 the Schwalbental)...
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    Mayakovskoye (category Gusevsky District)
    was the principal urban locality in Gumbinnen administrative district within the county of Nemmersdorf-Gumbinnen in East Prussia. The municipality included...
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    Magnus von Braun (senior) (category People from Bagrationovsky District)
    Department of Interior and became the President of the Governorate of Gumbinnen. He was dismissed from the civil service after the Kapp Putsch in 1920...
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    Old town (category Historic districts)
    (Amalienau district) Old Tilsit (Sovyetsk) Old Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk) Old Rauschen (Svetlogorsk) Old Kranz (Zelenogradsk) Old Gumbinnen (Gusev) Historic...
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    Baltic and Warsaw districts, had begun secretly on 25 July, not with the Tsar's proclamation on 30 July. Prittwitz attacked near Gumbinnen on 20 August, when...
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    Alexander Samsonov (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    the first to encounter the German Eighth Army, winning the Battle of Gumbinnen. The defeat led the German High Command to dismiss von Prittwitz and his...
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    Hans Pfundtner (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    examination in June 1902, Pfundtner worked as a legal clerk at the district courts of Gumbinnen and Insterburg (today, Chernyakhovsk). He performed military...
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    Chernyakhovsk (category Chernyakhovsky District)
    Wars, the town became the seat of Insterburg District within the Gumbinnen Region. Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly died at Insterburg in 1818 on his way...
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    Kristijonas Donelaitis (category People from Gusevsky District)
    life. Donelaitis was born at Lasdinehlen estate (now Gusevsky District) near Gumbinnen, Prussia. His parents were free peasants who owned the land that...
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    Geheimrat, from 1846 to 1851 Regierungspräsident in Gumbinnen, and in 1847 head of the district administrative court in Königsberg. He was the director...
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    Dietrich von Saucken (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Front. With the division, Saucken fought in the battles of Stallupönen, Gumbinnen, and Tannenberg and earned the Iron Cross 2nd Class in October 1914. Saucken...
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    Memel E13, Unknown E14, Labiau E16, Insterburg E17, Schlossberg E18, Gumbinnen E19, Ebenrode E20, Bartenstein E34, Tilsit / Ragnit E44, Union Giesserei...
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  • Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Darkehmen and its 13 morgen market square (1723); Ragnit's old town (1723); Gumbinnen's old town (1724), new town (1727), and town hall (1727); Schirwindt and...
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    Kreis Mohrungen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Ostpreußen. Verzeichnis der Seen in den Regierungsbezirken Allenstein, Gumbinnen, Königsberg. 1931. Töppen, Max (1858). Historisch-comparative Geographie...
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    Klaipėda Region (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    promoted the idea of a partition of East Prussia. They proposed to attach Gumbinnen and Insterburg to Poland, Königsberg should be declared a free city, and...
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    captured by the empire in 1914, though there was some overlap: Gusev (Gumbinnen in German) was the site of the initial Russian victory. According to the...
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    Einsatzkommando (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    below) Einsatzgruppe A, attached to the Army Group North, was formed in Gumbinnen in East Prussia on 23 June 1941. Stahlecker – its first commander – deployed...
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    Eastern Front. Inconclusive battle between Germany and Russia. Battle of Gumbinnen 19–20 August Russians defeat German Eighth Army, advance deeper into East...
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