East Prussia facts for kids
Quick facts for kids East Prussia
Ostpreußen
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| Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (until 1918) and the Free State of Prussia | |||||||||||
| 1772–1829 1878–1945 |
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.svg) East Prussia in the German Empire. |
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| Capital | Königsberg | ||||||||||
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• 1905
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36,993 km2 (14,283 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
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• 1905
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2,025,741 | ||||||||||
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• Created
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31 January 1773 | ||||||||||
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• Province of Prussia
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3 December 1829 | ||||||||||
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• Province restored
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1 April 1878 | ||||||||||
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• Soviet capture
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1945 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Lithuania Poland Russia |
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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
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Ethnic settlement in East Prussia by the 14th century
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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)
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Monument to Immanuel Kant in Kaliningrad
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Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau in February 1807
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Map of the province of East Prussia in 1890
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Coronation of William I as King of Prussia at Königsberg Castle in 1861
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Adolf Hitler and Erich Koch in Königsberg, 1936
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Map of East Prussian Districts in 1945
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East Prussia in 1941
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Königsberg after the RAF bombing in 1944
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Königsberg Castle, 1895
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"Königsberg" license plate holder, 2009
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An illustration of the changing borders in Eastern Europe before, during, and after World War II (Map is written in German)
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See also
In Spanish: Prusia Oriental para niños
