Prussia
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- proper noun
- /ˈprʌʃə/
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Prusia
- Now I would reach a long way, from England to former East Prussia.
- King of Prussia
- East Prussia
- Prussia, frustrating Bismarck
Frederick the Great becomes King of Prussia during this, this era.
- Frederick the Great becomes King of Prussia during this, this era.
- In fact, we know from the fewer conferences, which were all taken down by the stenographers, every word, the Wolfschanzer in Eastern Prussia.
Examples
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Frederick the Great, as King of Prussia, was one who openly opposed such a practice.
Academic text (1992) -
Parts of West Prussia and all of Posen are now parts of Poland.
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By the new century, Prussia was setting an example.
Academic text (2011) -
Ten days later, King Frederick William of Prussia declared war on France.
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It was divided between Prussia and Austria and Russia.
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The experience with Napoleon had taught Hardenberg that Prussia was not yet a true great power.
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Let it suffice to say that England and Prussia were allies and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians and the Austrians.
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From 1866 to 1870, Prussia had a unified military command structure under the greatest military strategist of the modern era.
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The first Polish immigrants came from the Poznan district in eastern Prussia and settled in Milwaukee in the late 1840s.
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King Frederick William of Prussia was instrumental in the unification of Germany during the 19th century.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prussia comes from the name of the people who first lived by the Baltic Sea, the Old Prussians called Prūsai, so the name originally meant 'land of the Prussians'. That's why Prussia became the name for that northern European region and later the kingdom.