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The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen; Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland. The province was established following the Poznań Uprising of 1848 as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen , which in turn was annexed by Prussia in 1815 ...
Posen was the southern of two Prussian administrative regions, ... and the surrounding rural area would be named for the city, but referred to as a Landkreis (English
Poznań (Polish: [ˈpɔznaj̃] or ⓘ) [a] is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. [7] The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (Jarmark Świętojański), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect.
Poznań (German: Posen), city in Poland; Grand Duchy of Posen, autonomous province of Prussia, 1815–1848; Province of Posen, Prussian province, 1848–1918; Posen (region), the south-western part of the Province of Posen; Posen-West Prussia, German province, 1922–1938; Reichsgau Posen, occupied in 1939, annexed and directly incorporated ...
The Battle of Poznań (Battle of Posen) during World War II in 1945 was an assault by the Soviet Union's Red Army that had as its objective the elimination of the Nazi German garrison in the stronghold city of Poznań (Posen) in occupied Poland.
To strengthen the city's defences, in the second stage of the Festung Posen scheme, an outer ring of forts was built to encircle the city. The nine original forts were built starting in 1876, and nine intermediate forts were built between them from 1887.
Bromberg was the northern of two Prussian government regions, or Regierungsbezirke (Polish: Rejencja), of the Grand Duchy of Posen (1815–1848) and its successor, the Province of Posen (1848–1919). The administrative center was the city of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), which is now part of Poland.
The Germanisation of the Province of Posen was a policy of the Kulturkampf measures enacted by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whose goal was to Germanize Polish-speaking areas in the Prussian Province of Posen by eradicating and discrimination of Polish language and culture, as well as to reduce the influence of the "ultramontanist" Roman ...