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PRUSSIA

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 528 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PRUSSIA , in the

original

ORIGINAL

and narrower sense of the word, a territory of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, stretching along the Baltic

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

for about 220 m., and occupying an area of 24,083 sq. m. The eastern

part

PART

of this territory formed the duchy of Prussia, which was conquered and colonized by the Teutonic Order and was acquired by the elector of Brandenburg in 1618, furnishing his successor with his regal title in 1701. The western

part

PART

, which had been severed from the eastern half and assigned to Poland in 1466, was not annexed to Prussia until the

partition

PARTITION

of Poland in 1772, while the towns of Danzig and

Thorn

remained Polish down to 1793. The two districts were united in 1824 to form a single province. But, as might have been expected, the

union

did not

work

WORK

well, and it was dissolved in 1878, its place being taken by the modern provinces of

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

and West Prussia. (See

EAST

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

PRUSSIA and WEST PRUSSIA.)

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