East Prussia
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East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878, with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871; following World War I, it formed part of
Ethnic settlement in East Prussia by the 14th century
Statue of Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach (last Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, first Duke of Prussia) in Malbork Castle
Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau in February 1807
Prussia
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Prussia was a German state centred on the North European Plain. It originated from the 1525 secularization act of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohe
Situation after the conquest in the late 13th century. Areas in purple under control of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.
Prussian Homage by Jan Matejko. After admitting the dependence of Prussia to the Polish Crown, Albert of Prussia receives Ducal Prussia as a fief from King Sigismund I the Old of Poland in 1525.
The "Great Elector" and his wife
Frederick I, King in Prussia