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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Prussian people | | | |  Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussian people - Origin of the nameEtymologically, the names of the Prussian tribes were all formed on a common theme: water. A number of Indo-European roots are used, but they all mean about the same thing: water, stream, lake, flow, wetland, swamp, etc. This convention is understandable, as the terrain of the Baltic countries includes thousands of lakes, streams and swamps, so much so that this circumstance itself caused the very partial isolation that preserved the Baltic language group. Nor is the terrain much better to the south, as it runs into the Pripet Marshes at the headwaters of the Dnepr. T ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussia - The end of Prussia The Prussian junkers and generals dominated the conduct of World War I, so when it ended in defeat in 1918 they had to accept responsibility. The Prussian monarchy was overthrown along with all other German monarchies, and Germany became a republic. The Great Poland Uprising, and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, recreated the Polish state and forced Germany to return territories annexed by Prussia during the Partitions of Poland, as well as parts of Upper Silesia inhabited by Poles. East Prussia found itself again cut off fr ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussia - Early history In 1226 Conrad of Mazovia invited a German order of crusading knights, the Order of the Teutonic Knights from Transylvania to conquer the Prussian tribes on his borders. However, after struggling against more than a century of resistance from the Prussians they created a semi-independent state, which came to control most of what are now Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as parts of northern Poland. Eventually defeated, the Knights had to acknowledge the sovereignty of the King of Poland and Lithuania from 1466. In 1525 the Master of the Order became a Protestant, and converted part of the Order's territories into the Duch ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussia - Imperial Prussia In 1862 Prussian King William I appointed Otto von Bismarck as Prime Minister of Prussia. Bismarck was determined to defeat both the liberals and the conservatives, by creating a strong united Germany but under the domination of the Prussian ruling class and bureaucracy, not the western German liberals. He achieved this by provoking three successive wars, with Denmark in 1864 (second war of Schleswig), which gave Prussia Schleswig-Holstein, with Austria in 1866 (Austro-Prussian War), which allowed Prussia to annex Hanover and most other nort ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussia - Early History In 1226 Conrad of Mazovia invited a German order of crusading knights, the Order of the Teutonic Knights from Transylvania to conquer the Prussian tribes on his borders. However, after struggling against more than a century of resistance from the Prussians they created a semi-independent state, which came to control most of what are now Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as parts of northern Poland. Eventually defeated, the Knights had to acknowledge the sovereignty of the King of Poland and Lithuania from 1466. In 1525 the Master of the Order became a Protestant, and converted part of the Order's territories into the Duch ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - List of subnational name etymologies - India The element Pradesh appears in the names of many Indian states. It means "land" or "province" in Sanskrit.
Andhra Pradesh: Land of the Andhras. Andhra also denotes "south" in Sanskrit - the equivalent of Australis in Latin.
Arunachal Pradesh: In Sanskrit, aruna means "dawn-lit" and anchal "mountains"
Bihar - from vihara ("Buddhist monastery"). Foreign invaders often used abandoned viharas as military cantonments; the word Bihar may have come from the large number ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussian people - Religion and culture Main article: Origins of Prussia.
The first certain mention of the Old Prussians in historical sources is in connection with Adalbert of Prague who was slain in 997 during a crusade to Christianise the Prussians. By the late 13th century, the German knights, especially the Teutonic Knights had converted them under arms to Christianity, after two centuries of conquest attempts by Poland had failed. Many of the native Prussians remaining after the bloody conquest were settled in Sambia. The Prussians organized frequent uprisings, ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussian people - Medieval history Though a peaceful farming people, the Old Prussians were pagans and practiced human sacrifice, which attracted the attention of the newly installed dukes of Poland, Masovia and of the Teutonic Order. Prussia was slowly and painfully overrun and subdued by crusades established by the popes. Baptised Prussians were educated at the diocese in Magdeburg and many western Germans including Dutch moved to Prussian lands. Meanwhile, the Lithuanians utilized the time bought by the blood of the Prussians (allied with the Sudovians) to form the grand d ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussian people - Early Baltic history At the beginning of Baltic history, the Prussians were bordered by the Vistula and the Neman with a southern depth to about Torun, which was Prussian, and the line of the River Narew. The Germans were on the west, the Poles on the south, the Sudovians on the east, the Curonians on the northeast and the Lithuanians on the northwest. The Sudovians began at about Suwałki.
The Prussians, like the other Balts of the times, were organized into a tribal structure. This structure is most fully attested in the Chronicon terrae Prussiae ...
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| | | | Prussian people: Encyclopedia II - Prussian people - Language The monks of the Teutonic Order, being of a scholarly bent, took an interest in the language spoken by the Prussians and tried to record it. They needed to communicate with the Prussians in order to convert them. Consequently we have some record of the Old Prussian language. With the slightly known Galindian, and the better known Sudovian, it is all we have of West Baltic. As might be expected, it is a very archaic Baltic, showing affinities with Germanic. Old Prussian seems to support the theory that ...
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