A map of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania including Samogitia and Curland divided according to their dismemberments with the Kingdom of Prussia from 1799, source: Wikimedia ...

Nationalists of any country can look to Jozef Pilsudski for inspiration. Jozef Pilsudski (1867–1935), Poland’s liberator, grew up in a country divided between Russia, Austria, and Prussia.

German knightly orders conquered Prussia, Livonia and fought long bloody wars against Lithuania. And after Lithuania had become an ally of Poland, Poles were also involved in those conflicts. And they ...

The road being close to both East Prussia and Poland was beneficial as it allowed it to act as an entry point to the nation for the resistance publishers and book smugglers. Tilze, which is now ...

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 ...