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Prussia

Also known as Prussia (Germany)

Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ) was a German state centred on the North European Plain. It originated from the 1525 secularization act of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, expanding its size with the Prussian Army. Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. Prussia formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian gover

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Prussia was a German state ruled by the House of Hohenzollern for centuries, which grew powerful through military expansion and eventually moved its capital from Königsberg to Berlin when it became a kingdom in 1701. It matters because Prussia decisively shaped German history and directly formed the German Empire by uniting the German states in 1871.

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Key facts

Former country.footnote_a: The heads of state listed here are the first and last to hold each title over time. For more information, see individual Prussian state articles (links in above History section).
Former country.footnote_b: The position of '''' was introduced in 1792 when Prussia was a Kingdom; the Minister-Presidents shown here are the heads of the Prussian republic.
Former country.government_type: Feudal monarchy (1525–1701)Absolute monarchy (1701–1848)Federal parliamentarysemi-constitutional monarchy (1848–1918)Federal semi-presidentialconstitutional republic (1918–1932)Presidential republic under authoritarian rule by decree (1932–1933)Unitary fascist state under totalitarian dictatorship (1933–1945)Allied-occupied Germany (1945–1947)
Former country.year_start: 1525
Former country.year_end: 1947
Former country.event_start: Duchy of Prussia
Former country.date_start: 10 April
Former country.event1: Union with Brandenburg
Former country.date_event1: 27 August 1618
Former country.event2: Kingdom of Prussia
Former country.date_event2: 18 January 1701
Former country.event3: Free State of Prussia
Former country.date_event3: 9 November 1918
Former country.event4: Abolition (de facto, loss of independence)
Former country.date_event4: 30 January 1934
Former country.event_end: Abolition ()
Former country.date_end: 25 February
Former country.image_flag: Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1803-1892).svg

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Research

4,919 papers

From Prussia to Russia: Russian critics of "Aerztliche Ethik".ReviewJournal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2019Lichterman BDOI: 10.18502/jmehm.v12i19.2201
Physiological parameters in laboratory animals and humans.ReviewPharmaceutical research · 1993Davies B, Morris TDOI: 10.1023/a:1018943613122
[The history of medicolegal opinions in the Kingdom of Prussia in the 18th century].ReviewArchiwum medycyny sadowej i kryminologii · 2021Dębicka MKDOI: 10.4467/16891716AMSIK.21.002.14225
Military Medicine in Prussia.The Indian medical gazette · 1870
PMID 32586467Hand clinics · 2020Tosti R, Fowler JRDOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2020.05.001
The Medical Politics of Prussia.ReviewThe British and foreign medico-chirurgical review · 1856
The Authors Respond.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2020Simpson ML, Desai V, Maro GS et al.DOI: 10.18553/jmcp.2020.26.9.1177a
Medical Relief of the Sick Poor in Rome and Prussia.ReviewThe Medico-chirurgical review · 1840

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: Prussian
Population: 41915040
Area: 297007

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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1933-00-00
Commons gallery: Prussia
Commons category: Prussia
inception: 1525-00-00
native label: Preußen
P8168: Thomas Ruff

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Article

34 sections

Contents

Symbols
Territory
History
Teutonic Order
Duchy of Prussia
Brandenburg-Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia
Napoleonic Wars
Wars of liberation
Wars of unification
Schleswig Wars
Austro-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
German Empire
Railways
The Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic
Prussia and Nazi Germany
The end of Prussia
Administrative and constitutional frameworks
Prussia inside Weimar Republic
Social history
Population
Ethnicity
Religion
Non-German population
Education
Continuation of Prussian traditions
Federal government
Within Germany
In churches
See also
References
Further reading
External links

The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians who were conquered by the Teutonic Knightsan organized Catholic medieval military order of German crusaders in the 13th century. In 1308, the Teutonic Knights conquered the region of Pomerelia with Danzig. Their monastic state was mostly Germanised through immigration from central and western Germany, and, in the south, it was Polonised by settlers from Masovia. The imposed Second Peace of Thorn (1466) split Prussia into the western Royal Prussia, a province of Poland, and the eastern Duchy of Prussia, a feudal fief of the Crown of Poland until 1657. After 1525, the Teutonic Order relocated their headquarters to Mergentheim, but managed to keep land in Livonia until 1561. The union of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 led to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.