This region was once the northern part of East Prussia, with the remaining southern portion now forming part of Poland's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War ...

This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Growing to encompass much of northern and central Europe ...

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being received ...