what and where exactly is Prussia?

Answer 1

Prussia is kind of like Germany, and the Scandinavian area.

Answer 2

Prussia WAS in Central Europe where modern-day Germany is now. It used to be a country some 200 years ago but it isn't anymore.

Answer 3

Prussia was a Germanic country that no longer exists. It is now part of Germany and Poland

Answer 4

Roughly where Germany is now. Prussia's borders changed regularly depending on how the different dukes were getting along. It was an empire.

Answer 5

Prussia

Prussia (German: Preußen (help·info); Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Polish: Prusy; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most recently, an historic state originating in East Prussia, an area which for centuries had substantial influence on German and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin.

The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians, a Baltic people related to the Lithuanians; Prussia was later conquered by the Teutonic Knights and thereafter slowly Germanized.

Prussia attained its greatest importance in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the 18th century, Prussia ascended to the position of third European great power under the reign of Frederick II of Prussia (1740–1786). During the 19th century, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck pursued a policy of uniting the German principalities into a "Lesser Germany" which would exclude the Austrian Empire.

The Kingdom of Prussia dominated northern Germany politically, economically, and in terms of population, and was the core of the unified North German Confederation formed in 1867, which became the German Empire or Deutsches Reich in 1871.

With the end of the Hohenzollern monarchy in Germany following World War I, Prussia became part of the Weimar Republic in 1919. Prussia as a state was abolished de facto by the Nazis in 1934 and de jure by the Allied Powers in 1945.

Since then, the term's relevance has been limited to historical, geographical, or cultural usages. Even today, a certain kind of ethic is called "Prussian virtues", for instance: perfect organization, sacrifice, rule of law, obedience to authority and militarism, but also reliability, thriftiness, modesty, and diligence. Many Prussians believed that these virtues were part of the reasons for the rise of their country.
Geography and Population
Prussia began as a small territory in what was later called West and East Prussia, which is now Warmia-Masuria of northern Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave of Russia, and the Klaipėda Region of Lithuania. The region was largely populated by Old Prussians and was later subject to colonization by Germans, as well as by Poles and Lithuanians along border regions.

Before its abolition, the territory of Prussia included "Prussia proper" (West Prussia and East Prussia), Pomerania, most of Silesia, Brandenburg, Lusatia, the Province of Saxony (now the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany), Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Westphalia, Hesse-Nassau, the Rhineland, and some small detached areas in the south such as parts of Switzerland and Hohenzollern, the ancestral home of the Prussian ruling family. However, there were some regions in northern Germany that never became a part of Prussia, such as Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, and the city-states of the Hanseatic League.

Although Prussia was predominantly a Protestant German state, there were substantial Roman Catholic populations in the Rhineland, while a number of districts in Posen, Silesia, West Prussia, and the Warmia regions of East Prussia had predominantly Catholic populations. Some of these Catholic eastern districts had German populations (such as Warmia and Glatz), while most of them had populations of Polish descent. East Prussia's southern region of Masuria was largely made up of Germanized Protestant Masurs. This explains in part why the Catholic South German states, especially Austria and Bavaria, resisted Prussian hegemony for so long.

Despite its overwhelmingly German character, Prussia's annexations of Polish territory in the Partitions of Poland brought a large Polish population that resisted the German government and in several areas constituted the majority of the population (i.e. Province of Posen: 62% Polish, 38% German). As a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the Second Polish Republic received a large portion of the these areas, some of which had significant German minorities.

In May 1939 Prussia had an area of 297,007 km² and a population of 41,915,040 inhabitants.
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Answer 6

Prussia was a country in Europe, before WWI. it was located in what is now Poland, Lithuania and the western part of Russia called kalingrad Oblast. It became part of Germany during WWI and the Nazis changed its name during their reign.

Answer 7

contained in the 1800s, Germany became divided into many states. Prussia became the biggest and maximum effectual of those states, and had a large kind of impact over what handed off in the different states. at the same time as Germany grew to grow to be one unmarried, unified usa, the Prussian royal family individuals grew to grow to be the German royal family individuals

Answer 8

Prussia was suppose to be scattered parts of Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia.

Answer 9

Germany

Answer 10

Poland, Germany, and Czech Republic once comprised the Prussian Empire.