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  2. List of counties in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    1800: Parts of Allegheny and Lycoming Counties; attached to until 1805. A corruption of the Delaware word onenge, meaning "otter" 49,431: 683 sq mi (1,769 km 2) Warren County: 123: Warren: 1800: Parts of Allegheny and Lycoming counties; attached to Crawford County until 1805 and then to Venango until Warren was formally organized in 1819.

  3. Provinces of Prussia - Wikipedia

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    Provinces of Prussia in the German Confederation, 1818. The German Confederation was established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the Kingdom of Prussia was a member until the dissolution in 1866 following the Austro-Prussian War. The Prussian state was initially subdivided into ten provinces.

  4. Prussia - Wikipedia

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    Prussia (/ ˈ p r ʌ ʃ ə /, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsija, Prūsa [b]) was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order.

  5. Province of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.

  6. List of historic states of Germany - Wikipedia

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    After the Austro-Prussian War, Prussia led the Northern states into a federal state called the North German Confederation (1867–1870). The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918).

  7. Districts of Prussia - Wikipedia

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    Prussian provinces about 1900. Prussian districts (German: Kreise, lit. 'circles') were administrative units in the former Kingdom of Prussia, part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, and its successor state, the Free State of Prussia, similar to a county or a shire.

  8. Province of Prussia - Wikipedia

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    The province was formed in a merger with the pre-existing provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia joined together in a personal union and, from 3 December 1829, in a real union. Its territory included the entire historical region of Prussia , from which the province and the kingdom derived their names, as well as Pomerelia and (following the ...

  9. File:Map-DB-PrussiaProvs-1818.svg - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Prussia at the time of the formation of the German Confederation (1818) - with provincial borders. Date: 7 December 2006: Source: Based on map data of the IEG-Maps project (Andreas Kunz, B. Johnen and Joachim Robert Moeschl: University of Mainz) - www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de. Author: User:52 Pickup: Permission (Reusing this file)