South Prussia
| South Prussia Südpreußen (de) Prusy Południowe (pl) |
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| Province of Prussia | ||||||
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| Capital |
Poznań (Posen) Warsaw (Warschau) from 1795 |
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| History | ||||||
| • | 2nd Polish Partition | 25 September 1793 | ||||
| • | Annexed Warsaw | 1795 | ||||
| • | Treaties of Tilsit | 9 July 1807 | ||||
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| • | 1806 | 53,000 km2(20,463 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1806 | 1,503,508 | ||||
| Density | 28.4 /km2 (73.5 /sq mi) | |||||
| Political subdivisions |
Kalisz (Kalisch) Poznań (Posen) Warszawa (Warschau) |
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South Prussia (German: Südpreußen; Polish: Prusy Południowe) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1793 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Second Partition of Poland and in 1793 included
The capital of the province was Poznań (1793-1795) at first, afterwards Warsaw (1795-1806), which was added in 1795 after the Third Partition, but it was actually administered by the General Directory (General-Direktorium) in Berlin. In 1806 the province had 1,503,508 inhabitants. It was subdivided into the Kammerdepartements Posen (Poznań), Kalisch (Kalisz), and Warschau (Warsaw).
South Prussia bordered on the Brandenburgian Neumark region in the west and the Prussian Netze District in the north. After the Third Partition, the lands of Dobrzyń and Płock northeast of the Vistula river were transferred to New East Prussia, while South Prussia gained the Warsaw region of the former Masovian Voivodeship. In the southeast the Pilica river marked the border with those Lesser Polish territories that in 1795 became part of Austrian New Galicia. In the southwest it bordered on the Prussian Silesia Province and New Silesia, a smaller province including the former Duchy of Siewierz, which was administered from South Prussia.
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