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Following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the various German states gained nominal sovereignty. However, the reunification process that culminated in the creation of the German Empire in 1871, produced a country that was constituted of several principalities and dominated by one of them, the Kingdom of Prussia after it had ultimately ...
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]
Named after the Baden region. Baden: Pennsylvania: Named after the German town of Baden-Baden. [7] Baden, St. Louis: Missouri: Neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri named after the region of Baden. Bamberg: South Carolina: Named after William Seaborn Bamberg, whose grandfather was an immigrant from Germany. [8] Bamberg County: South Carolina
Prussians were baptised at the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, while Germans and Dutch settlers colonized the lands of the native Prussians; Poles and Lithuanians also settled in southern and eastern Prussia, respectively. Significant pockets of Old Prussians were left in a matrix of Germans throughout Prussia and in what is now the Kaliningrad ...
The Indiana Historical Bureau has a home at the library. Founded in 1915 as the Indiana Historical Commission, its initial purpose was to prepare for the centennial of Indiana's statehood. The bureau largely concentrates on the placement of new historical markers across Indiana and encourages education in Indiana history. The bureau runs a gift ...
Prussia (Prussian: Prūsa; Polish: Prusy ⓘ; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Russian: Пруссия [ˈprusʲ(ː)ɪjə] ⓘ; German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Latin: Pruthenia/ Prussia / Borussia) is a historical region in Central Europe on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, that ranges from the Vistula delta in the west to the end of the Curonian Spit in the east and extends inland as far ...
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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]