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Detail within the German Kingdom and surrounding areas is from a map found in Professor G. Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas, which was published in 1886 by R. Andrée Plate, and is now in the public domain.
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East Prussia [Note 1] 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 the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.
Maps of 1400–1700 Eastern Europe by Grandiose (talk · contribs) : File Type Details File:Polish-Lithuania map (1450-1600).svg: Large SVG: Map showing conflicts and territorial changes on the Polish-Lithuanian—Russian border, 1450–1600 File:Duchy of Prussia.svg: Small SVG: Map of the Duchy of Prussia File:Livonian war map (1558-1560).svg ...
In 1829 the Province of Prussia was created by the merger of East Prussia and West Prussia, lasting until 1878 when they were again separated. Congruent with the Kingdom of Prussia proper (i.e. former Ducal and Royal Prussia), its territory, like the province of Posen, was not part of the German Confederation.
The Kingdom of Prussia divided the former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained into the following: Netze District - from 1772 to 1793; New Silesia - from 1795 to 1807; New East Prussia - from 1795 to 1807; South Prussia - from 1793 to 1806; East Prussia - from 1773 to 1829; West Prussia - from 1773 to 1829; Over time the administrative ...
Prussia (Prussian: Prūsa; Polish: Prusy ⓘ; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Russian: Пруссия [ˈprusʲ(ː)ɪjə] ⓘ; German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Latin: Pruthenia/ Prussia / Borussia) is a historical region in Central Europe on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, that ranges from the Vistula delta in the west to the end of the Curonian Spit in the east and extends inland as far ...