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East Prussia
Ostpreußen
Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (until 1918) and the Free State of Prussia
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1772–1829
1878–1945		 →
 
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Flag Coat of arms
Flag Coat of arms
Location of East Prussia
East Prussia in the German Empire.
Capital city Königsberg
History
 -  Created 31 January 1773
 -  Province of Prussia 3 December 1829
 -  Province restored 1 April 1878
 -  Soviet capture 1945
Area
 -  1905 36,993 km2 (14,283 sq mi)
Population
 -  1905 2,025,741 
Density 54.8 /km2  (141.8 /sq mi)
Today part of  Lithuania
 Poland
 Russia

East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Lithuanian: Rytų Prūsija; Latin: Borussia orientalis; Russian: Восточная Пруссия, Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province in the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829. From 1878 to 1918, it was part of the German Empire. From 1918 until 1945, it was a part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia. It's capital was Königsberg.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the area was divided into to the Soviet Union (Russian SFSR, and Lithuanian SSR) and Poland (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. The German population either evacuated or was expelled.

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Images for kids

  • Image-Prussia ethnicity

    Ethnic settlement in East Prussia by the 14th century

  • 1799 Cary Map of Prussia and Lithuania - Geographicus - Prussia-cary-1799

    New Map of the Kingdom of Prussia, John Cary 1799, split into the eastern regions of Lithuania Minor (green), Natangia (yellow), Sambia and Warmia (pink), the western Oberland territories with Marienwerder (blue), West Prussian Marienburg (yellow) and Danzig (green)

  • Monument of Immanuel Kant - panoramio

    Monument to Immanuel Kant in Kaliningrad

  • Antoine-Jean Gros - Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau - Google Art Project

    Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau in February 1807

  • Ostpreussen 1890

    Map of the province of East Prussia in 1890

  • Krönungszug Königsberg (1861)

    Coronation of William I as King of Prussia at Königsberg Castle in 1861

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2008-0513-501, Königsberg, Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler and Erich Koch in Königsberg, 1936

  • EastPrussiaMap1944

    Map of East Prussian Districts in 1945

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 137-065743, Ostpreußen, Ankunft von Umsiedlern aus Litauen

    East Prussia in 1941

  • Probsteikirche

    Königsberg after the RAF bombing in 1944

  • Königsberg Castle

    Königsberg Castle, 1895

  • Ru-koenigsberg

    "Königsberg" license plate holder, 2009

  • Karte viertepolnischeteilung

    An illustration of the changing borders in Eastern Europe before, during, and after World War II (Map is written in German)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Prusia Oriental para niños

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