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| | East Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The remaining German population of East Prussia was expelled by the Communist regime. | | | In 1875 the ethnic make-up of East Prussia was 73.48% German speaking, 18.39% Polish speaking, and 8.11% Lithuanian speaking (according to "Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego"). | | | The population of the province in 1900 was 1,996,626 people, with a religious make up of 1,698,465 Protestants, 269,196 Roman Catholics, and 13,877 Jews. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussia
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| | Prussia - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | In 1618 the new Duke of Prussia was the Elector John Sigismund of Brandenburg. | | | In 1934 the Nazis stopped using Prussia as a land unit and in 1947 the Allies too. | | | Today some people want to put together the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg and Berlin and call them Prussia. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
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| | PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on PRUSSIA |
| | In the elections that followed, the disgusted democrats took no part, with the result that the chambers that met an the 7th of August 1849 were strongly Conservative and made no difficulty about revising the democratic constitution of 1848 in accordance with the royal wishes. | | | , From 1867 onward Prussia has had from the point of view of international politics no existence apart from the North German Federation and the German Empire; and even in internal affairs her preponderance and influence Prussia in in Germany have been overwhelming. | | | Frederick William engaged to recognize the Pragmatic Sanction, while the emperor on his side undertook to support Prussias claims to Julich and Berg. |
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http://93.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PR/PRUSSIA.htm
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| | Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The government was not responsible to the Prussian Landtag (lower chamber), whose powers were small and whose members were elected by a suffrage system based on tax-paying ability. | | | Early in 1933, Adolf Hitler seized power and made Hermann Goering premier of Prussia; Hitler’s rise had been aided by the Rhenish industrialists. | | | This action not only confirmed an accomplished fact; it was also intended as a blow against the spirit of German militarism and aggression, long held to be connected with Prussia. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/pr/Prussia.html
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| | Prussia |
| | After the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, the Prussian constitution was set aside and the legislature abolished, though Prussia remained a unit for administrative purposes. | | | The king appointed the ministers, but it was difficult for them to govern against the express wish of the chambers. | | | The major parts of the kingdom's western provinces, however, had never been Prussian before and, being mainly Roman Catholic, were alien to Prussia in outlook. |
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http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Prussia/Prussia.html
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| | East Prussia on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Homesick: Kalingrad - postcard.(tourism and politics in the former Konigsberg, East Prussia) | | | Germany in secret talks with Russia to take back Konigsberg Chancellor Schroder is offering to waive debts to remove East Prussia from Russian control. | | | GEDENKSTAETTE DEUTSCHER WIDERSTA Agence France Presse 07-16-2004 This handout picture shows Adolf Hitler's headquarters, the so-called Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair), near Rastenburg in East Prussia, after the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944. |
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http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/E/EastP1rus.asp
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| | East Prussia, Suwalki & Lithuania: A Winter Journey through Central Europe [Karl Brodowsky 2003] |
| | Many of the remaining Germans, who had now become a minority, left their old homeland and went to the west, but some are still living there. | | | During the end of the middle ages attempts were made to perform the "crusades" not only towards Palestine, but also towards areas in Europe, where the Christian church had not been established. | | | Lithuania had combined itself with Poland to form a huge state, which at times reached down to the black sea. |
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http://www.velofahren.de/e_Litauen-2003.html
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| | When will East Prussia be Free? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | First East Prussia then Karelia, Salla and Petsamo not for getting the islands in Gulf of Finland!! | | | Soviet Union has deported almost an entire remaining german population of Konigsberg to Eastern Germany in 1947-1948. | | | So most of the original East Prussians are now living in what was East Germany (though I suppose quite alot of them have emigrated to the western part of Germany since the reunification). |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92063
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| | OPRURL - Ost Preussen (East Prussia) Research List -- OPRURL -- START HERE |
| | All are from East Prussia and all were Lutherans. | | | Friedrich Wilhelm POTKORA, was born in 1817 at Koenigsberg, East Prussia. | | | I am interested to know the current name of the city, which I believe is now in Poland and what would be the best means of researching her family--many of whom emigrated around the same time she did (post World War I) but there were several brothers and sisters that did not. |
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http://cefha.org/de/opru/oprurl/oprurl.html
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| | Lutheran Records in East Prussia |
| | You are here: Home >> Parishes >> Lutheran Records in East Prussia | | | Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Parish Records in East Prussia | | | East Prussia is a region of former Germany, now split between Poland and Russia. |
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http://www.sggee.org/church_parishes/LutheransInEastPrussia.html
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| | FAQ.ostpreußen - East Prussia |
| | A21: The Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (GStAPK) in Berlin-Dahlem is the central archives of Prussia. | | | Q14: What was the religion of people in Ostpreußen (East Prussia)? | | | All monarchies in Germany were abolished in 1918, Prussia was declared defunct in 1947 by the Allied victors. |
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http://users.foxvalley.net/~goertz/faqopr.html
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| | East Prussia |
| | East Prussia was in turn extended by the eastern districts (shown in green and in cyan) of the former Province of West Prussia which remained German after 1920. | | | The capital city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad and became the capital of the Russian enclave. | | | German inhabitants of East Prussia either escaped in 1945 or were expelled from there afterwards. |
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http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/eastpr.htm
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| | A Brief History of Prussia |
| | This caused the province of East Prussia to be separated from the rest of Germany. | | | In 1226, Prussia was conquered by the Teutonic Knights, a military religious order, who converted the Prussians to Christianity. | | | A major event in German history was the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, making Germany a world power. |
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http://www.kolpack.com/packnet/prussia.html
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| | Prussia |
| | 3 Dec 1829 - 1 Apr 1878 United with Westpreussen as Prussia (Preussen). | | | 3 Dec 1829 - 1 Apr 1878 United with Ostpreussen as Prussia (Preussen). | | | 9 Nov 1918 Free State of Prussia (see German states since 1918). |
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http://www.vdiest.nl/Europa/prussia.htm
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| | West Prussia |
| | The province of Royal Prussia was mostly inhabited by Catholics of Polish (or Cashubian) ethnicity and a significant German (partially Lutheran) minority, which was predominant particularly in the cities, as Gdansk (German: Danzig) and Torun (Thorn). | | | The territory which remained under the rule of the Order was then called Ducal Prussia and later became the province of East Prussia. | | | The areas of the former West Prussia east from the Vistula River (shown in green and pink) also remained German and were incorporated into East Prussia. |
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http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/westpr.htm
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| | Northeast Prussia |
| | Prussia enters into the Nordic war against Sweden. | | | As only German province East Prussia is a war zone. | | | After the beginning of the Second World War recovery of West Prussia. |
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http://www.euronet.nl/~jlemmens/prussia.html
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| | PGSA - East Prussia |
| | This is a translation of excerpts from the article on East Prussia printed in the late-19th century Polish gazetteer Slownik geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego. | | | In 1824 East and West Prussia were united as one province, but on 1 April 1878 they were once again divided into East and West. | | | Remember that these articles contain information "current" when they were written, sometime after 1885 and before 1902. |
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http://www.pgsa.org/eprussia.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - East Prussia |
| | East Prussia, easternmost province of the former kingdom and state of Prussia, divided after World War II between Poland and the Soviet Union. | | | By the terms of the treaties, Prussia was forced to cede all its territory west of the Elbe to Napoleon, who used it to create the kingdom of... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - East Prussia |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/East_Prussia.html
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| | East Prussia Province 1882-1935 (Prussia, Germany) |
| | Territorial Association of East Prussia (Federation of Expellees, Germany) | | | Prussia - Province of Eastern Prussia - Province of Hohenzollern (1882-1934). | | | Editor's note: see also Territorial Association of the East Prussians (Landsmannschaft Ostpreu& e.V. |
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http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de-pr-ep.html
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| | Train to East Prussia |
| | The long detour took the train through East Prussia, an area of land whose rightful ownership was continually and hotly debated between Germany and Poland, and which since the end of World War II had been under Polish control. | | | It's one of those jokes for which you must choose your audience carefully, because it has a way of going over different people's heads for different reasons. | | | One dismal, rainy night, back during the days when Germany was split between the Federal Republic of the west and the Democratic Republic of the east, the wash-out of a railroad bridge caused an East German passenger train from Berlin to be diverted into Poland. |
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http://home.att.net/~s.a.joyce/docs/trainto.htm
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| | East Prussia |
| | The eastern coast ot the Baltic Sea inhabited by the Baltic nations | | | In 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Albrecht of Brandenburg proclaimed Prussia a secular state and, in two years, introduced Protestantism as the official state religion. | | | In 1544, he founded Königsberg University, which he advertised widely in Lithuanial. |
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http://www.unesco.org/webworld/europe/lithuania/prussia.htm
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| | OSTERODE (EAST PRUSSIA) - LoveToKnow Article on OSTERODE (EAST PRUSSIA) |
| | The reply to this was a defensive league concluded at Herrenhausen in 1725 by England, the United Provinces and Prussia. | | | OSTERODE (EAST PRUSSIA) - LoveToKnow Article on OSTERODE (EAST PRUSSIA) | | | The Spanish government, however, after some hesitation concluded a treaty of commerce with Austria and recognized the company of Ostend. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/O/OS/OSTERODE_EAST_PRUSSIA_.htm
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| | ArchitectureWeek - Culture - Erich Mendelsohn - Oriental from East Prussia - 2001.0124 |
| | He could easily have been forgotten: he founded no school, there was no institutionalized follow-up to his ideas, and his achievements have been too often ignored. | | | Erich Mendelsohn was born in Allenstein, East Prussia in 1887. | | | He may have belonged nowhere, but in each place to which fate drove him, he knew how to adapt and exhibit great personal and professional resilience. |
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http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0124/culture_1-1.html
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| | Names of Pomorze are Polish, names of East Prussia - German. | | | Using official names from 1914 is absurdity - how to write by English Russian transcription of Polish, Lithuanian or Latvian names? |
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http://www.the-strategist.net/RD/scenarii/display_scenario.php?Id=418
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| | Battle of Tannenberg |
| | On the outbreak of the First World War General Alexander Samsonov was given command of the Russian Second Army for the invasion of East Prussia. | | | The commander of the German Eighth Army, General Maximilian Prittwitz, was dismissed for ordering the retreat when faced with the Russian Second Army. | | | He advanced slowly into the south western corner of the province with the intention of linking up with General Paul von Rennenkampf advancing from the north east. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtannenberg.htm
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