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    Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member...
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    Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia (20 March 1828 – 15 June 1885) was the son of Prince Charles of Prussia (1801–1883) and his wife, Princess Marie...
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    inspector of the Royal Gallery of Berlin under Frederick the Great of Prussia. He did publish a book praising the King. In addition, to painting, he...
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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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    minister-president or premier. Until 1933 the term was also used in Prussia for the head of government of a province, in the modern-day states of Germany (with the exceptions...
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    Otto von Bismarck (category Ambassadors of Prussia)
    office as the minister president and foreign minister of Prussia. Under Bismarck's leadership, Prussia provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark...
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  • Lombardy to Piedmont. In mid-June 1866 war broke out between Austria and Prussia over the administration of Schleswig and Holstein and the future of the...
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    Congress of Vienna (category Treaties of the Kingdom of Prussia)
    incorporated into Russia in the 1790s. Prussia received 60 percent of Saxony, much of which became part of the new Province of Saxony from 1816 (the now-Prussian...
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    given the name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (Venetian: Andrea de Piero de ła Gondoła). His father, Pietro, called "della Gondola", was a miller. From an...
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    XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo ˈpaːolo dʒoˈvanni batˈtista della ˈkjɛːza]; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922)...
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  • in a set manner. pro gloria et patria for glory and fatherland Motto of Prussia pro hac vice for this occasion Request of a state court to allow an out-of-state...
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     Monaco: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles, 27 April 1875 Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, 13 March 1867 Grand Commander's...
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    Victor Emmanuel II the epithet of Father of the Fatherland (Italian: Padre della Patria). Even after 1871, many ethnic Italian-speakers (Trentino-Alto Adigan...
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    with the men." On 13 July 1817, Nicholas married Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1798–1860), who took the name Alexandra Feodorovna when she converted...
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    April 1866, the Kingdom of Italy entered into a military alliance with Prussia, aiming to unite Veneto and Trent to its territory. The alliance was maintained...
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    moved from Turin to Florence. In 1866, Victor Emmanuel II, allied with Prussia during the Austro-Prussian War, waged the Third Italian War of Independence...
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    Erich Koch – Gauleiter of Gau East Prussia from 1928 to 1945, Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of East Prussia from 1933 and Reichskomissar in the...
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    of the Reichstag and president of the Regency of the Province of Hanover, Governor of East Prussia ∞ Sybilla Malwine von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (1864-1945)...
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    Pontificia), officially the State of the Church (Italian: Stato della Chiesa [ˈstaːto della ˈkjɛːza]; Latin: Status Ecclesiasticus), were a conglomeration...
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    closer to the positions of the party hostile to France, which defined Prussia as a party to a conflict involving Austria, a member and leader of the...
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    Emperor. Soon afterwards, at Memel, he entered into a close alliance with Prussia, not as he boasted from motives of policy, but in the spirit of true chivalry...
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    pushing from the Vistula to the Oder river in Germany, and overran East Prussia. On 4 February Soviet, British, and U.S. leaders met for the Yalta Conference...
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    death, Saxony, Prussia, Bavaria, and France all repudiated the sanction they had recognised during his lifetime. Frederick II of Prussia (who became Maria...
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    Edward (1875). "General treaty between Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia and Turkey, signed at Paris on 30th March 1856". The...
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    right to station troops in the kingdom, and Austria, as well as Russia and Prussia, insisted that no written constitution was to be granted to the kingdom...
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    Teutonic Order for its wars of conquest of native non-Christian peoples in Prussia and Lithuania. Due to his religious and political influence, in 1421 Pope...
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    influence turned the scale against interference in favour of France against Prussia, and in favour of an immediate occupation of Rome. From 1873 until his...
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    Wilhelm von Humboldt (category Ambassadors of Prussia)
    the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of public education, as well as in the United...
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    Nicolaus Copernicus (category People from Royal Prussia)
    born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, to German-speaking parents...
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    Waal was born in Emmerich am Rhein, then in the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg in the Kingdom of Prussia, on 5 May 1837, As a young man, he studied theology...
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