| Royal Prussia | |||||||||
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| Province of Poland | |||||||||
| 1466–1569 | |||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 54°N 19°E / 54°N 19°E | ||||||||
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| 19 October 1466 | |||||||||
| 1 July 1569 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland Russia¹ | ||||||||
| ¹ Small portion of the Vistula Spit around Polski[1] | |||||||||
Royal Prussia (Polish: Prusy Królewskie; German: Königlich-Preußen or Preußen Königlichen Anteils, Kashubian: Królewsczé Prësë) or Polish Prussia[2] (Polish: Prusy Polskie;[3] German: Polnisch-Preußen)[4] became a province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which was annexed following the imposed Second Peace of Toruń (1466) from territory in Pomerelia and western Prussia which had been part of the State of the Teutonic Order.[5][6][7] Royal Prussia retained its autonomy, governing itself and maintaining its own laws, customs, rights and German language for the German minority and Polish language for the Polish majority.[8][9]
In 1569, Royal Prussia was fully integrated into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and its autonomy was largely abolished.[10] As a result, the Royal Prussian parliament was incorporated into the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[11] In 1772 and 1793, after the first and second partition of Poland, the former territory of Royal Prussia was recovered by the Kingdom of Prussia and subsequently re-organized into the province of West Prussia. This occurred at the time of the First Partition of Poland, with other parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth being annexed by the Russian Empire and Habsburg Austria.
- ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 129.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching, Patrick Murdoch. A New System of Geography, London 1762, p. 588
- ^ Zygmunt Gloger (1900). "Volume 325". In Harvard Slavic humanities preservation microfilm project (ed.). Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej polski (Historical Geography of the former Polish lands) (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Polska. pp. 82, 144.
- ^ (in German) Polnisch-Preußen ("State Constitution of Polish-Prussia") (see: Excerpt in the publication of 1764, p. 581)
- ^ Friedrich 2000, p. 1-2, 22-23.
- ^ Knoll 2008, p. 42–43.
- ^ Dwyer 2000, p. 28.
- ^ Friedrich 2000, p. 179.
- ^ Dr Jaroslav Miller. Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700. Ashgate Publishing. p. 179.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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