Prussia
![Situation after the conquest in the late 13th century. Areas in purple under control of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Ordensstaat-kirchlich.jpg)
The name ''Prussia'' derives from the Old Prussians; in the 13th century, the Teutonic Knightsan organized Catholic medieval military order of German crusadersconquered the lands inhabited by them. In 1308, the Teutonic Knights conquered the region of Pomerelia with Danzig. Their monastic state was mostly Germanised through immigration from central and western Germany, and, in the south, it was Polonised by settlers from Masovia. The imposed Second Peace of Thorn (1466) split Prussia into the western Royal Prussia, becoming a province of Poland, and the eastern part, called the Duchy of Prussia from 1525, a feudal fief of the Crown of Poland up to 1657. The union of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 led to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.
Prussia entered the ranks of the great powers shortly after becoming a kingdom. It became increasingly large and powerful in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had a major voice in European affairs under the reign of Frederick the Great (1740–1786). At the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), which redrew the map of Europe following Napoleon's defeat, Prussia acquired rich new territories, including the coal-rich Ruhr. The country then grew rapidly in influence economically and politically, and became the core of the North German Confederation in 1867, and then of the German Empire in 1871. The Kingdom of Prussia was now so large and so dominant in the new Germany that and other Prussian élites identified more and more as Germans and less as Prussians.
The Kingdom ended in 1918 along with other German monarchies that were terminated by the German Revolution. In the Weimar Republic, the Free State of Prussia lost nearly all of its legal and political importance following the 1932 coup led by Franz von Papen. Subsequently, it was effectively dismantled into Nazi German ''Gaue'' in 1935. Nevertheless, some Prussian ministries were kept and Hermann Göring remained in his role as Minister President of Prussia until the end of World War II. Former eastern territories of Germany that made up a significant part of Prussia lost the majority of their German population after 1945 as the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union both absorbed these territories and had most of its German inhabitants expelled by 1950. Prussia, deemed "a bearer of militarism and reaction" by the Allies, was officially abolished by an Allied declaration in 1947. The international status of the former eastern territories of the Kingdom of Prussia was disputed until the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in 1990, but its return to Germany remains a cause among far-right politicians, the Federation of Expellees and various political revanchists and irredentists.
The terms "Prussian" and "Prussianism" have often been used, especially outside Germany, to denote the militarism, military professionalism, aggressiveness, and conservatism of the class of landed aristocrats in the East who dominated first Prussia and then the German Empire. Provided by Wikipedia
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241Published 1900### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Breslau : Verlag von Wilh. Gottl. Korn, 1900.1 online resource (32, 8 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Breslau...”
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242Published 1894### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin : Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1894.1 online resource (x, 367 pages) : forms.“...Prussia (Germany). Finanz-Ministerium...”
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243Published 1885### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Halle a/d. S. : C.E.M. Pfeffer (R. Stricker), 1885.1 online resource (40 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Halle...”
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244Published 1881### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Halle : C.E.M. Pfeffer, 1881.1 online resource (8 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Halle...”
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245Published 1895### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Breslau : Druck und verlag von Carl Dülfer, 1895.1 online resource (32 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Breslau...”
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246Published 1897### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin : Verlag von Schuster & Bufleb, 1897.1 online resource (68, 10 pages) : illustrations.“...Prussia (Germany). Polizeipräsidium in Berlin...”
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247Published 1886### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin : Verlag von Bruer & Co., 1886.1 online resource (2 unnumbered, 33 pages)“...Prussia (Germany)...”
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248Published 1887### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Halle-Saale : Pfeffersche Buchhandlung (R. Stricker), [1887]1 online resource (1 unnumbered page)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Halle...”
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249Published 1883### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin ; Leipzig : Verlag von J. Guttentag (D. Collin), 1883.1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)“...Prussia (Germany)...”
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250Published 1891### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin : Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1891.1 online resource (68 pages) : tables.“...Prussia (Germany). Landtag. Haus der Abgeordneten...”
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2511 online resource (18 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Eisenbahn-Betriebsamt Aachen...”
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252Published 1895### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Kattowitz : Druck und Verlag von G. Siwinna, 1895.1 online resource (30 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Breslau...”
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253Published 1895### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Breslau : Verlag von Maruschke & Berendt, 1895.1 online resource (21 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Breslau...”
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254Published 1887### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>[Halle-Saale] : [Verlag von C.G.W. Pfeffer (R. Stricker)], [1887]1 online resource (4 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Halle...”
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Published 1872Berlin : Fr. Kortkampf, 1872.1 online resource (27 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Landtag. Haus der Abgeordneten...”
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256Published 1887### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin : Carl Heymann's Verlag, 1887.1 online resource (36 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Polizeipräsidium in Berlin...”
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257Published 1887### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin : Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1887.1 online resource (vii, 136 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Polizeipräsidium in Berlin...”
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258Published 1897### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Halle a.d.S. : Pfeffershe Buchhandlung, [1897]1 online resource (16 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Königliches Oberbergamt zu Halle...”
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259by Kopp, H.### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>
Published 1889Berlin : Verlag von V. Brocke, 1889.1 online resource (39 pages)“...Prussia (Germany). Landtag. Haus der Abgeordneten...”
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260Preussische Steuer- und Stempel-Gesetze : Veranlagung und Einschätzung, Stempel-Tarif, ReklamationenPublished 1891### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Berlin ; Hamburg : Verlag von Bruer & Co., [1891]1 online resource (77 pages)“...Prussia (Germany)...”
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