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Of the Three Partitions, the education system in Prussia was on a higher level than in Austria and Russia, irrespective of its virulent attack on the Polish language specifically, resulting in the Września children strike in 1901–04, leading to persecution and imprisonment for refusing to accept the German textbooks and the German religion ...
The Duchy of Prussia (German: Herzogtum Preußen, Polish: Księstwo Pruskie, Lithuanian: Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (German: Herzogliches Preußen; Polish: Prusy Książęce) was a duchy in the region of Prussia established as a result of secularization of the Monastic Prussia, the territory that remained under the control of the State of the Teutonic Order until the ...
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.
In 1166, two Polish dukes, Bolesław IV and his younger brother Henry, came into Prussia, again over the Ossa River. The prepared Prussians led the Polish army, under the leadership of Henry, into an area of marshy morass. Whoever did not drown was felled by an arrow or by throwing clubs, and nearly all Polish troops perished.
With the rest of Prussia, it became a part of the German Empire during the unification of Germany in 1871. Despite the restoration of independent Poland after World War I , the Treaty of Versailles assigned the region to Germany as part of the exclave and province of East Prussia following the East Prussian plebiscite .
Simon Grunau (c. 1470 – c. 1530) was the author of Preussische Chronik, [nb 1] the first comprehensive history of Prussia.The only personal information available is what he wrote himself in his work: that he was a Dominican priest from Tolkemit near Frauenburg (Frombork) just north of Elbing in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order. [1]
The Polish-Lithuanian and Prussian Alliance was a mutual defense alliance signed on 29 March 1790 in Warsaw between representatives of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Prussia. It was signed in the brief period when Prussia was seeking an ally against either Austria or Russia, and the Commonwealth was seeking guarantees ...
The volume also includes the history of the Teutonic Order and Duchy of Prussia until 1698. [18] Prätorius focused on cultural history and not on political history as it was common at the time. [34] He sought to write a thorough almost encyclopedic work on Prussia while keeping it interesting and attractive to a reader. [18]