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Preussen

noun
1.
A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland.  Synonym: Prussia.






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... junction of the red and white Main, threatening still, for it is now a Bavarian prison. The power of the house grew slowly. In one age it got Brandenburg, in another the great districts of Ost and West Preussen; now it was possessions in Silesia, now again territory on the Rhine. Power came sometimes through imperial gift, sometimes through marriage, sometimes through purchase or diplomacy or blows. From poor soldiers of fortune to counts, from counts to princes, from princes to electors, and at ...
— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer



Words linked to "Preussen" :   Polska, geographic region, Deutschland, geographical region, Republic of Poland, Federal Republic of Germany, FRG, Poland, geographical area, Germany, Prussian, geographic area, Brandenburg



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