A German province that was the predecessor to, and a member of, the German Empire; erased at the end of the Second World War
A former Baltic country, annihilated by the Teutonic Order and absorbed by Germany
A German province that was the predecessor to, and a member of the German Empire; erased at the end of the Second World War
{i} former kingdom and state in northern Europe during the 14th through early 20th centuries
a former German state in northern Europe, which was a powerful military state between the 17th and 19th centuries. After World War II, its land was divided between Germany, the Soviet Union, and Poland. German Preussen In European history, any of three areas of eastern and central Europe. The first was the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages. The second was the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, including Prussia and Brandenburg, with Berlin as its capital. It seized much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th-19th century and united Germany under its leadership in 1871. The third was the state created after the fall of the Hohenzollerns in 1918, which included most of their former kingdom and which was abolished by the Allies in 1947 as part of the political reorganization of Germany after its defeat in World War II