Province of Posen

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The Province of Posen was a Prussian administrative region in the 19th and early 20th centuries, located in what is now western Poland and centered around the city of Poznań.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf former administrative division
province of Prussia
administrativeCenter Posen NERFINISHED
Poznań NERFINISHED
borderedBy Province of Brandenburg
Province of Silesia
Province of West Prussia
capital Posen NERFINISHED
Poznań NERFINISHED
contains Bromberg
Bydgoszcz NERFINISHED
Gnesen
Gniezno NERFINISHED
Inowrazlaw
Inowrocław NERFINISHED
Leszno NERFINISHED
Poznań NERFINISHED
Rawicz
Rawitsch
city of Posen
country Kingdom of Prussia
dissolvedAsResultOf Greater Poland Uprising
World War I
endTime 1919
ethnicGroup Germans
Jews
Poles
followedBy Poznań Voivodeship NERFINISHED
Second Polish Republic
formedBy Congress of Vienna
governingBody Prussian provincial administration
languageUsed German
Polish
locatedInPresentDay Poland
western Poland
namedAfter Poznań NERFINISHED
city of Posen
partOf German Empire
Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED
Prussian Eastern Provinces
Prussian Partition of Poland
precededBy Duchy of Warsaw NERFINISHED
religion Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
sovereignState German Empire
Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED
startTime 1815
timePeriod 19th century
early 20th century

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