The Duchy of Prussia (German: Herzogtum Preußen, Polish: Księstwo Pruskie, Lithuanian: Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (German: Herzogliches Preußen; Polish: Prusy Książęce) was a duchy in the region of Prussia established as a result of secularization of the Monastic Prussia, the territory that remained under the control of the State of the Teutonic Order until the Protestant Reformation in 1525.
^The duchy's Evangelical (Protestant) church was the first formally established as a state religion.
DuchyofPrussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order, a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located along the eastern coast of the...
Peace of Thorn (1466) split Prussia into the western Royal Prussia, becoming a province of Poland, and the eastern part, called the DuchyofPrussia from...
into a polity called Congress Poland, and Prussia formed the Grand Duchyof Posen in the west. The city of Kraków, Poland's cultural centre, was granted...
addition, the duchy was only the eastern bulk of the region ofPrussia; the westernmost fragment constituted the part of Royal Prussia east of Vistula, held...
The state ofPrussia had its origins in the separate lands of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and of the DuchyofPrussia. The Margraviate of Brandenburg...
The Grand Duchyof Posen (German: Großherzogtum Posen; Polish: Wielkie Księstwo Poznańskie) was part of the Kingdom ofPrussia, created from territories...
according to the terms of the Treaty of Wehlau and Bromberg, the House of Hohenzollern's sovereignty over the DuchyofPrussia was not absolute but contingent...
of the Franconian branch became Margrave of Brandenburg in 1415 and Duke ofPrussia in 1525. The Margraviate of Brandenburg and the DuchyofPrussia were...
Third Partition of Poland. The duchy also had colonies in Tobago and Gambia The DuchyofPrussia was a duchy in the eastern part ofPrussia from 1525 to...
the Electorate of Brandenburg as Brandenburg-Prussia. In 1657 the Treaty of Wehlau granted full independence to the DuchyofPrussia, allowing its later...
became the DuchyofPrussia. The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century. Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy...
The Provinces ofPrussia (German: Provinzen Preußens) were the main administrative divisions ofPrussia from 1815 to 1946. Prussia's province system was...
Protestant Reformation to become the DuchyofPrussia ruled by the House of Hohenzollern, remaining a fiefdom of the Polish Crown and later the Polish–Lithuanian...
century and inherited the DuchyofPrussia. The resulting Brandenburg-Prussia was the predecessor of the Kingdom ofPrussia, which became a leading German...
Prussians were a Baltic people that inhabited the region ofPrussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and...
of the grand duchy were separated by the Free City of Frankfurt and the Electorate of Hesse (parts ofPrussia after 1866) The long northern region of...
1748) County of Stolberg-Gedern (after 1804) Grand Duchyof Posen Duchyof Saxe-Lauenburg Grand Duchyof Baden (Franco-Prussian War) Kingdom of Bavaria (Franco-Prussian...
secularised to become the Lutheran DuchyofPrussia according to the 1525 Treaty of Kraków and the Prussian Homage. The duchy was later ruled in personal union...
the Holy Roman Emperor. Since 1618, the Electors of Brandenburg had also ruled the DuchyofPrussia, which lay outside the empire, in a personal union...
male-line relative, as his heir. While the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866, the Duchyof Brunswick remained sovereign and independent. It...
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