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Prussia then and now - Germany
Which regions of modern Germany were part of it
what location/region of modern Germany, made up Prussia?
Anywhere north of the Danube, or so I've been told ;-)
According to my neighbours, anywhere outside of Bayern! (And they not too sure about that lot in Franken to be honest)
Anywhere north of the Danube, or so I've been told ;-)
According to my neighbours, anywhere outside of Bayern! (And they not too sure about that lot in Franken to be honest)
Both are correct!
Those parts of Poland between the Memel and the Rhone, formerly coloured a jaunty blue.
Prussia was far larger than that.
the borders fluctuated quite a bit throughout history, though.
the borders fluctuated quite a bit throughout history, though.
You map is exactly what I just described.
'cept that map isn't restricted to bits of Poland.
... (And they not too sure about that lot in Franken to be honest) ...
Large parts of Franken were indeed Hohenzollern/Prussian territory :Principality of Ansbach
Principality of Bayreuth
Prussia up to 1918 (WWI)
Prussia after WWI and the effects of the Versailles Treaty. (Weimar Republic) from wikipedia: (It had to cede virtually all territory belonging to the provinces of Posen and West Prussia to the newly created state of Poland and the League of Nations mandate of the Free City of Danzig. Smaller areas had been ceded to Belgium (East Cantons, formerly Rhineland), Czechoslovakia (Hlučín Region, formerly Silesia), Denmark (South Jutland, formerly Schleswig-Holstein), the League of Nations mandate of the Memel Territory (formerly East Prussia), Poland (eastern Upper Silesia, formerly Prov. of Silesia), and the Mandatory Saar (League of Nations) (formerly Rhineland).
from wikipedia: Map of current states of Germany that are completely or mostly situated inside the old borders of Imperial Germany’s Kingdom of Prussia
'cept that map isn't restricted to bits of Poland.
Not at all. Since a contract under duress is void ab initio and to every cow, her calf, those shoeless beggars the Hohenzollerns were still bound by their oath of fealty to the King of Poland, and both the Ducal, and all they got later was forfeit for oath-breach, much though they tried wriggle and smooch their way out of it by making pointy hatted war and forcing John Casimir to sign away their grand sergentry at the point of a sword.
... forcing John Casimir to sign away their grand sergentry at the point of a sword ...
Quite obviously a unique occurrence in world history ...
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