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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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Prussia's democratic constitution was suspended in 1932 as a result of a coup by Germany's conservative Chancellor Franz von Papen, marking the effective end of German democracy. | | | In 1618 the Duchy was inherited by the Elector John Sigismund of Brandenburg, who was at the same time ruler of Prussia and Brandenburg, a German state centered on Berlin and ruled since the 15th century by the Hohenzollern dynasty. | | | These expulsions, together with the nationalisation of land by the Communist regime in East Germany, destroyed the junkers as a class and marked the effective end of Prussia as a social and political entity; the East German bureaucracy is seen by many as a "Red" continuation of the Prussian tradition, however. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prussia |
| | According to its provisions Prussia was to be a constitutional kingdom with a diet of two chambers; great power was left to the Crown, which was moreover favoured by obscurities and omissions in the document. | | | As Prussia had aided the principalities of central Germany to suppress internal revolts in the spring of 1849, these countries did not at first venture to disagree with Prussia, as appears from the agreement of 26 May with Saxony and Hanover, called the "union of the three kings". | | | In Prussia (1569) they obtained the right to joint feudal possession, and thus gained for the main branch of the family a claim to the Duchy of Prussia. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12519c.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 |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Prussia/Prussia.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Prussia |
| | Prussia (German Preussen), former kingdom and state of Germany. | | | The state of Prussia was legally abolished in 1947 by the Allied Control Council, a group formed after World War II to resolve issues relating to Germany. | | | In 1947, after World War II (1939-1945), Prussia was abolished as a political unit and, with the exception of East Prussia, partitioned into various parts of the four zones of occupation in Germany, administered by France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559027_1/province_of_Prussia.html
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| | Subnational Flags 1919-1935 (Prussia, Germany) |
| | An explanation for this would have been the use of the flag for political propaganda at that time. | | | What do we really know about the flags of German states before 1935 (and of Prussian provinces)? | | | Provinces of the Kingdom of Prussia which continued to exist only 1918-1920: |
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http://flagspot.net/flags/de-pr19-.html
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| | East Prussia |
| | The German population was evacuated at the end of the war under quite dramatic circumstances. | | | East Prussia was also an exclave of Germany that existed from 1919 until World War II. | | | At the beginning of World War II in 1939, East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants. |
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http://www.fastload.org/ea/East_Prussia.html
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| | Prussia - VickyWiki |
| | This can be done fairly quickly provided the initial thrust focuses on them before they mobilize rather than the more conservative attack limited to the smaller minors described here. | | | The Kingdom of Prussia in the 1830s was a state with a mission. | | | This war nets Prussia most of the German land it hasn't previously controlled, as well as a ton of prestige. |
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http://victoria.nsen.ch/wiki/index.php/Prussia
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnesen-Posen |
| | The Prussian government had him deposed by the supreme court of the state, and ordered a new election. | | | Upon his refusal, he was summoned to appear before the court, arrested on the 3 February, 1874, and kept in prison at Ostrowo until February, 1876. | | | The efforts of the government to Germanize the country and the consequent resistance of the Poles have, in many cases, exceeded all legitimate bounds, and have given rise to conditions which are very detrimental to the interests of the Catholic Church. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590b.htm
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| | History Today: The Kingdom of Prussia is Founded.(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research |
| | The people called Preussen in German, who inhabited the land on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic, were Slavs, related to the Lithuanians and Latvians. | | | PRUSSIA, which was to become a byword for German militarism and authoritarianism, began its history outside Germany altogether. | | | German peasants were brought in to farm the land and by around 1350 the majority of the population was German, though the Poles annexed part of Prussia... |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:69202805&refid=holomed_1
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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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| | Deutsche Landeswappen - German Civic Heraldry-PREUSSEN |
| | The Kingdom of Prussia was founded in 1701 when Prince Friedrich III of Brandenburg declared himself King Friedrich I of Prussia. | | | Prussia became an important and powerful state within the German Empire and existed officially until 1945. | | | The 52 territories are listed at the end of this document. |
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http://www.ngw.nl/int/dld/preussen.htm
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| | Duchy of Prussia 1525-1701 (Germany) |
| | Flag of part of Prussia under Polish rule from 1466-1772. | | | In 1701, Prussia became a kingdom and from then till 1871, it was in a continuous stage of expansion until it came to be by far the largest German state, almost as large as all the others together. | | | In 1466 the state of the Teutonic Order (that part of Prussia not under Polish sovereignty as Royal Prussia) became a Polish vassal. |
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| | Ancestors of Anton Gbur |
| | After his marriage he went by the name Xavier. | | | 1819 in West Prussia; died August 30, 1868 in Pottlitz, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia; married (1) Honorata Rosalia Tomasz August 04, 1850 in Pottlitz, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia; born Abt. | | | old, a bricklayer from Prussia", left Europe from Bremen, Germany on the steamship "America" under Master Georg Ernst, arriving in New York on 18 June 1869 (Filby's "Germans to America" Vol. |
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| | NPR : Prussia 300 |
| | All Things Considered, February 2, 2001 · NPR's Guy Raz reports from Germany on the controversy marking this year's celebrations of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Prussia. | | | Many Germans are looking back in appreciation of Prussia's cultural achievements -- the genius of Bach, the rococo palaces, civil rights for minorities and a state social security system. | | | But for others, Prussia represents, above all, the militarism and unquestioning respect for authority that gave rise to Nazism. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1118019
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| | WHKMLA : List of the Wars of the Kingdom in/of Prussia |
| | French Invasion of Russia Prussia a reluctant French ally | | | go to narrative history of the Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1795. | | | go to narrative history of the Kingdom in Prussia 1701-1795 |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/germany/milxprussia2.html
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| | Kingdom of Prussia |
| | East Prussia (Ostpreussen) - now part in Poland, part in Lithuania, part in Russia, part in Belarus |
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