Samland may refer to: Sambia Peninsula Bishopric of Samland Samland District (Landkreis Samland), East Prussia SS Samland Corps Task Force Samland of XXVIII...
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Diocese of Samland (Sambia) (German: Bistum Samland, Polish: Diecezja sambijska) was a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Samland (Sambia) in...
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The Samland offensive was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front in the final stages of World War II. It took place in Sambia (German: Samland); (Russian:...
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Sambia Peninsula (redirect from Samland Peninsula)
полуостров, romanized: Sambiysky poluostrov, lit. 'Sambian Peninsula') or Samland (Russian: Земландский полуостров, romanized: Zemlandsky poluostrov, lit...
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Samland District (Landkreis Samland), was a district in Königsberg Region, East Prussia. v t e...
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SS Samland was an American-built cargo ship. Built in 1902 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey, the ship was owned and operated...
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Prussian Crusade (section Samland)
1194. King Valdemar II of Denmark supported Danish expeditions against Samland until his capture by Henry I, Count of Schwerin, in 1223. In 1206, the...
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forces—the XXVIII Army Corps or Armeeabteilung Samland under General der Infanterie Hans Gollnick—occupied the Samland Peninsula, where the port of Pillau was...
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surrounded Königsberg on the landward side, severing the road down the Samland peninsula to the port of Pillau, and trapping the 3rd Panzer Army and approximately...
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XXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) (redirect from Armee-Abteilung Samland)
the corps was briefly named Armeeabteilung Samland (Corps Task Force Samland). The corps fought in Samland until annihilated in late April 1945. Following...
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used extensively during World War II, during which the US was codenamed "Samland" by the German intelligence agency Abwehr. The term was central in the...
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Lagoon. The Teutonic Order used Königsberg to fortify their conquests in Samland and as a base for campaigns against pagan Lithuania. Under siege during...
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Richard the Fearless of Normandy in 945 and 963, while his son conquered Samland, and after the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway, managed...
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A.; D’Orazi, V.; Hagelberg, J.; Le Coroller, H.; Ligi, R.; Rouan, D.; Samland, M.; Schmidt, T.; Udry, S.; Zurlo, A.; Abe, L.; Carle, M.; Delboulbé, A...
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Zemland Group of Forces (redirect from Samland Group of Forces)
Air Army Part of 3rd Belorussian Front Engagements Battle of Königsberg Samland Offensive Commanders Notable commanders Army Gen. Ivan Khristoforovich...
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Beschreibung der Sudawen auff Samland sambt ihren Bock heyligen und Ceremonien" – True Description of the Sudovians in Samland together with their goat sanctifications...
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SV Prussia-Samland Königsberg was a German association football club from the city of Königsberg, East Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia). The club was...
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Golfplatz (German for "golf course") – Britain, employed by the Abwehr Samland – The United States (from Uncle Sam), employed by the Abwehr Heimdall (a...
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182nd Rifle Division (section Samland Offensive)
April, as part of 2nd Guards Army, it was involved in the clearing of the Samland Peninsula. In the last days of the war the 182nd returned to 43rd Army...
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Many of the native Prussians from Sudovia who survived were resettled in Samland; Sudauer Winkel was named after them. Frequent revolts, including a major...
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Poland, and with his personal bishop, Georg von Polenz of Pomesania and of Samland, who had converted to Lutheranism in 1523, and a number of his commanders...
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Leningrad on 27 January 1944, as well as in Operation Samland, at that time known as the Samland Group, captured Königsberg in April 1945. As of 23 June...
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and were gradually assimilated. Peasants in frontier regions, such as Samland, had more privileges than those in more populated lands, such as Pomesania...
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into four bishoprics: Culm (Chełmno), Pomesania, Ermland (Warmia) and Samland (Sambia). The bishoprics became suffragans to the Archbishopric of Riga...
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Prussia Samland Königsberg BuEV Danzig 2–1 1911 SC Lituania Tilsit SV Ostmark Danzig 4–2 1912 BuEV Danzig VfB Königsberg 3–2 1913 Prussia Samland Königsberg...
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Adalbert of Prague, it was built as the see of the Prince-Bishops of Samland in the 14th century. Upon the establishment of the secular Duchy of Prussia...
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12 March 1945: Walter Weiß Composition: February 1945 Armee-Abteilung Samland 4th Army Soviet East Pomeranian Offensive Battle of Kolberg Courland Pocket...
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Königsberg Cathedral on the Kneiphof island of the Pregel River from the Samland chapter, where he had an academic gymnasium (school) erected in 1542. He...
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had outer baileys at two points. The castle belonged to the Bishop of Samland. The original building was wooden; beginning in 1328 it was rebuilt in...
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George of Polentz (category Lutheran bishops of Samland)
George of Polentz (born: c. 1478; died: 1550 in Balga) was bishop of Samland and Pomesania and a lawyer. He was the first Lutheran bishop and also a Protestant...
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