Prussian Eastern Provinces

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The Prussian Eastern Provinces were a group of predominantly German-ruled territories in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Prussia, encompassing regions with significant Polish and other non-German populations and playing a key role in the political and ethnic tensions of 19th- and early 20th-century Central Europe.

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Prussian Eastern Provinces canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former administrative division
historical region
borderedBy Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austrian Empire

Austrian Partition of Poland
Congress Poland
Russian Empire
Russian Partition of Poland
capital Berlin
surface form: Berlin (for Brandenburg)

Breslau
surface form: Breslau (for Silesia)

Gdańsk
surface form: Danzig (for West Prussia, until 1920)

Königsberg
surface form: Königsberg (for East Prussia)

Province of Posen
surface form: Posen (for Province of Posen)

Stettin
surface form: Stettin (for Pomerania)
country Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dissolvedBy Treaty of Versailles
dissolvedIn 1919
ethnicComposition Germans
Jews
Kashubians
Lithuanians
surface form: Lithuanians (in parts of East Prussia)

Masurians
Poles
governedBy German imperial authorities
Prussian provinces
surface form: Prussian provincial administrations
hasPart Province of Brandenburg
East Prussia
surface form: Province of East Prussia

Province of Pomerania
Province of Posen
Province of Silesia
Province of Silesia
surface form: Province of Silesia (Lower Silesia region)

Province of Silesia
surface form: Province of Silesia (Upper Silesia region)

Province of West Prussia
historicalEvent World War I
surface form: First World War

Germanization policies in the 19th century
Kulturkampf
Ostflucht (east-to-west migration of Germans)
Polish national movement in Prussia
Prussian Partition of Poland
Treaty of Versailles
language German
Polish
locatedIn Central Europe
East Prussia
surface form: eastern Prussia
partOf German Empire
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
politicalIssue German–Polish border question
ethnic tensions between Germans and Poles
minority rights in the German Empire
politicalStatus eastern borderlands of the German Empire
integral part of the Kingdom of Prussia
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Roman Catholicism
resultOf Partitions of Poland
significance frontier zone between German and Slavic populations
key area of German–Polish national conflict in the 19th and early 20th centuries
territorialChange Free City of Danzig created from parts of West Prussia
Posen and West Prussia largely transferred to Poland
Upper Silesia partially transferred to Poland
large parts ceded to the Second Polish Republic after World War I
timePeriod 19th century
early 20th century

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Province of Posen partOf Prussian Eastern Provinces
Province of Posen-West Prussia locatedIn Prussian Eastern Provinces