East Prussia
East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Lithuanian: Rytų Prūsija; Latin: Borussia orientalis; Russian: Восточная Пруссия, Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province in the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829. From 1878 to 1918, it was part of the German Empire. From 1918 until 1945, it was a part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia. It's capital was Königsberg.
| East Prussia Ostpreußen | ||||||
| Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (until 1918) and the Free State of Prussia | ||||||
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| Capital city | Königsberg | |||||
| History | ||||||
| - | Created | 31 January 1773 | ||||
| - | Province of Prussia | 3 December 1829 | ||||
| - | Province restored | 1 April 1878 | ||||
| - | Soviet capture | 1945 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | 1905 | 36,993 km2 (14,283 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 1905 | 2,025,741 | ||||
| Density | 54.8 /km2 (141.8 /sq mi) | |||||
| Today part of |  Lithuania Poland Russia
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After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the area was divided into to the Soviet Union (Russian SFSR, and Lithuanian SSR) and Poland (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship).[1][2] Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. The German population either evacuated or was expelled.
East Prussia Media
Ethnic settlement in East Prussia by the 14th century
New Map of the Kingdom of Prussia, John Cary 1799, split into the eastern regions of Lithuania Minor (green), Natangia (yellow), Sambia and Warmia (pink), the western Oberland territories with Marienwerder (blue), West Prussian Marienburg (yellow) and Danzig (green)
Monument to Immanuel Kant in Königsberg
Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau in February 1807
Map of the province of East Prussia in 1881
Map of the province of East Prussia in 1890
Coronation of William I as King of Prussia at Königsberg Castle in 1861
Inter-war East Prussia (from 1923 to 1939)
Adolf Hitler and Erich Koch in Königsberg, 1936
Map of East Prussian Districts in 1945
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Related pages
References
- ↑ "Sarmatian Review XV.1: Davies". Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ↑ "East Prussia". Britannica. Retrieved 15 February 2019.