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railway (town); until 1946 German: Gerdauen; Polish: Gierdawy; Lithuanian: Girdava) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Pravdinsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located 69 km (43 miles) south-east of Kaliningrad, near the border with Poland, and had a population in 2017 of 2,728.
Map of the province of East Prussia in 1890. The population of the province in 1900 was 1,996,626 people, with a religious makeup of 1,698,465 Protestants, 269,196 Roman Catholics, and 13,877 Jews. The Low Prussian dialect predominated in East Prussia, although High Prussian was spoken in Warmia.
List of cities and towns in East Prussia, as used before 1945: City/Town District (Kreis) ... Gerdauen: Landkreis Gerdauen: 5 118: Zheleznodorozhny: Kaliningrad
Province of East Prussia in 1905. The district of Rastenburg was a district in East Prussia which existed from 1818 to 1945. Its capital was the town of Rastenburg.Already from 1752 to 1818, there was a Rastenburg district in East Prussia, which, however, encompassed a much larger area.
In 1829 the Province of Prussia was created by the merger of East Prussia and West Prussia, lasting until 1878 when they were again separated. Congruent with the Kingdom of Prussia proper (i.e. former Ducal and Royal Prussia), its territory, like the province of Posen, was not part of the German Confederation.
The Kingdom of Prussia ended with the abdication of the Hohenzollern monarch, Wilhelm II, and the kingdom was succeeded by the Free State of Prussia. Königsberg and East Prussia, however, were separated from the rest of Weimar Germany following the restoration of independent Poland and the creation of the Polish Corridor. Due to the isolated ...
The Kingdom of Prussia divided the former territories of the Commonwealth it obtained into the following: Netze District - from 1772 to 1793; New Silesia - from 1795 to 1807; New East Prussia - from 1795 to 1807; South Prussia - from 1793 to 1806; East Prussia - from 1773 to 1829; West Prussia - from 1773 to 1829; Over time the administrative ...
After the northern half of the former German region of East Prussia was annexed to the Soviet Union as an exclave of the Russian SFSR in 1945, nearly all the old toponyms of German, Lithuanian, Polish and Old Prussian origin were changed to new Russian ones.