• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Air Army Part of 3rd Belorussian Front Engagements Battle of Königsberg Samland Offensive Commanders Notable commanders Army Gen. Ivan Khristoforovich...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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