Province of Prussia
Historical Province
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The Province of Prussia (German: Provinz Preußen; Lithuanian: Prūsijos provincija; Polish: Prowincja Prusy; Kashubian: Prowincjô Prësë) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1829 to 1878. It was created by joining the provinces of West Prussia and East Prussia and was dissolved in 1878 when the merger was reversed.[1]
| Province of Prussia | |||||||||||||
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| Province of the Kingdom of Prussia | |||||||||||||
| 1829–1878 | |||||||||||||
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 Coat of arms
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| Province of Prussia (red), within the Kingdom of Prussia (blue), within the German Empire | |||||||||||||
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| Map with the border between West Prussia and East Prussia highlighted | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Königsberg | ||||||||||||
| Demonym | Prussian | ||||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 54°44′N 20°29′E | ||||||||||||
• 1871 | 62,528 km2 (24,142 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1871 | 3,137,545 | ||||||||||||
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• Established | 1829 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1878 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Lithuania Poland Russia | ||||||||||||
Königsberg (present day Kaliningrad, Russia) was the provincial capital.
History
The Duchy of Prussia became part of Brandenburg–Prussia in 1618 and the Kingdom of Prussia upon Frederick I of Prussia's coronation as king in 1701. After the coronation, the term "Province of Prussia" was used to designate East Prussia as a way to differentiate the former duchy's territory within the larger kingdom. Royal Prussia (consisting of the Malbork Land and Warmia, which were parts of historical Prussia and also of historically PolishPomerelia) was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 during the First Partition of Poland, placing them under Prussian rule under the name West Prussia, with the exception of Warmia, which was integrated into East Prussia.[1]
On 13 April 1824, the Provinces of West Prussia and East Prussia were joined in personal union under a single Oberpräsident, and by a cabinet order of 3 December 1829, the two officially became the Province of Prussia in a real union. Its territory included the entire historical region of Prussia, from which the province and the kingdom derived their names, as well as Pomerelia and (following the Congress of Vienna) parts of Greater Poland. On 1 April 1878, the Province of Prussia was divided back into the provinces of West Prussia and East Prussia.[2]
