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1895 - Prussia

"Prussia, prüsh'ya or proo'she-8 (Ger. Preussen, prois' son; Dutch, Pruissen, prois'sen; Fr. Prusse, prüss; £. Prus' sia), a kingdom of Central Europe, and the chief state of the German Empire, comprising the greater part of North Germany. It was formerly composed of two distinct and very unequal portions, separated by Brunswick, Hesse, Waldeck, Lippe, and Nassau; but since the annexation of Lauenburg, Hanover, Electoral Hesse, the territories of Frankfurt and Nassau, and the duchies of Holstein and Sleswick, with portions of Bavaria, and the grand duchy of Hesse, in 1866, it forms one compact territory from 6° to 22° 55' E. and 40° 6' to 55° 55' N. It is bounded S. by France, Bavaria, Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia; W. by the Netherlands and Belgium; N. by Denmark and the Baltic; N.E. and E. by Russia. Its length, E. to W., is about 700 miles; breadth, N. to S., 470 miles. The following are the provinces into which Prussia is divided:"

East Prussia, West Prussia, Berlin (city), Brandenburg, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, Saxony, Sloswick-Holstein Heliguland, Hanover, Westphalia, Hesse-Nassau, Rheish Prussia, Hohenzollern

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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