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Definition: Prussia from Collins English Dictionary

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1 a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles) German name: Preussen

Prussia

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(prŭsh'Ә), Ger. Preussen , former state, the largest and most important of the German states. Berlin was the capital. The chief member of the German Empire (1871–1918) and a state of the Weimar Republic (1919–33), Prussia occupied more than half of all Germany and the major part of N Germany. Before 1919 it consisted of 13 provinces: Berlin, Brandenburg , East Prussia (separated after 1919 from the rest of Prussia by the Polish Corridor ), Hanover , Hesse-Nassau (see Hesse ), Hohenzollern (a Prussian enclave between Württemberg and Baden in SW Germany), Pomerania , Rhine Province , Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein , Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia, and Westphalia . (Grenzmark Posen–West Prussia was sometimes considered a 14th province.) Prussia surrounded several smaller German states and stretched from the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg in the west to those of Lithuania and Poland in the east, and from the Baltic Sea, Denmark, and the North Sea in the north to the Main…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Historic state of N Germany. The Teutonic Knights conquered the region in the 13th century. The Duchy of Prussia, founded in the 15th century, passed to the Electors of Brandenburg in 1618. They took the title of Kings of Prussia in 1701. In the 18th century, under Frederick William I and Frederick…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(prŭsh'Ә), Ger. Preussen , former state, the largest and most important of the German states. Berlin was the capital. The chief member of the German Empire (1871–1918) and a state of the Weimar Republic (1919–33), Prussia occupied more than half of all Germany and the major part of N Germany. Before…
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
A North European state, originally centred in the East Baltic region as a duchy created by the Teutonic Knights , but later owing suzerainty to Poland. Inherited by the German House of Brandenburg in the early 17c, Brandenburg-Prussia was consolidated and expanded, and Polish sovereignty thrown off, …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Crowning of King William I of Prussia as the...
In European history, any of three areas of eastern and central Europe. The first was the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages. The second was the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty , …
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Former German state, N cen. Germany; ✽ Berlin. Early Prussians a people of Baltic stock dwelling along shore E of the Vistula; finally conquered, Christianized, and colonized by Teutonic Knights 13th cent. (see east prussia ); in 1466, W Prussia ceded by Teutonic Knights to Poland, while E Prussia…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ger. Ostpreussen , former province of Prussia, extreme NE Germany. The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in Masuria ) and drained by several rivers including the Nemen (Nieman). Its Baltic coast is deeply indented by the…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ger. Westpreussen , former province of Prussia, 9,867 sq mi (25,556 sq km), NE Germany, extending S from the Baltic Sea, between Pomerania on the west and East Prussia on the east. Danzig was the capital. The larger part of the region belonged to Poland until the Polish partitions of 1772 and 1793…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Historical region and former province of Prussia, E of Pomerania on SE Baltic shore; inhabited by Old Prussians, conquered by Teutonic Knights 13th cent. (see prussia ); after (Second) Treaty of Torún 1466, retained by Teutonic Knights as vassal of Poland; included in duchy of Prussia secularized by…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Historical region and former Prussian province, east of Pomerania . From 1815 it was known as East Prussia, part of the kingdom of Prussia , and in the 19th century it was a stronghold of Prussian Junkers, a military aristocracy. It was the scene of successful resistance against the Russians in…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
Former state in north-central Germany . At the height of its power, Prussia occupied more than half of present-day Germany, stretching from The Netherlands and Belgium in the west to Lithuania in the east. During the eighteenth century, Prussia established its independence from Poland , built up a…
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