East Prussia

East Prussia (German: Ostpreu§en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie) was a province of
Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. In
1772, after the First Partition of Poland, Warmia (a part of former province
of Royal Prussia) was included into East Prussia. On January 31, 1773 King
Friedrich II announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as
"Westpreu§en" (West Prussia) and the old Duchy of Prussia were to be known
as "Ostpreu§en" (East Prussia).

Along with the rest of Prussia, East Prussia, became part of the German
Empire at its creation in 1871. After World War I until World War II, East
Prussia became an exclave of Germany, created as a result of the Treaty of
Versailles, when parts of the province of West Prussia (former Royal
Prussia) were given to Poland creating the Pomeranian Voivodship or so
called Polish Corridor.

East Prussia was located along the south-east corner of the Baltic Sea. Its
capital was Kšnigsberg (now Kaliningrad). The northern part of East Prussia
corresponds today to Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, the southern parts form
Poland's Warminsko-Mazurskie Voivodship.

In 1875 the ethnic make up of East Prussia was 73.48% German, 18.39% Polish,
and 8.11% Lithuanian (according to "Slownik geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego"). The population of the province in 1900 was 1,996,626 people,
with a religious make up of 1,698,465 Protestants, 269,196 Roman Catholics,
and 13,877 Jews.

During the World War II, the province was extended (see Polish areas annexed
by Nazi Germany). In 1939, East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants. Many
were killed in the war. The German population of East Prussia ? like the
Germans of Gdansk, Pomerania and Silesia -- either fled or were expropriated
and expelled in 1944-49 by the occupying Soviets. In the process, hundreds
of thousands lost their lives. To replace the removed population, Russians,
Belorussians and Ukrainians were settled in the northern part and Sambia and
Polish refugees from former eastern parts of Poland were settled in Warmia i Mazury.

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