Posen–West Prussia
Prussian province created in 1922 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Frontier March of Posen–West Prussia (German: Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen; Polish: Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska) was a province of Prussia from 1920/1922 to 1938, covering most of lands of historical Greater Poland that were not included in the Second Polish Republic. Posen–West Prussia was established in 1922 as a province of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany, formed from merging three remaining non-contiguous territories of Posen and West Prussia, which had lost the majority of their territory to the Second Polish Republic following the Greater Poland Uprising. From 1934, Posen–West Prussia was de facto ruled by Brandenburg until it was dissolved by Nazi Germany, effective 1 October 1938 and its territory divided between the provinces of Pomerania, Brandenburg and Silesia.[1] Schneidemühl (present-day Piła) was the provincial capital. Today, lands of the province are entirely contained within Poland.
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Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia | |||||||||||||||
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Province of Prussia | |||||||||||||||
1920/1922–1938 | |||||||||||||||
Posen-West Prussia (red) within the Free State of Prussia (blue). | |||||||||||||||
Capital | Schneidemühl | ||||||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||||||
• 1925 | 7,695 km2 (2,971 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1925 | 332,400 | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
1 July 1920/1922 | |||||||||||||||
• Ruled by Brandenburg | 1934 | ||||||||||||||
• Divided between Brandenburg, Pomerania and Silesia | 1 October 1938 | ||||||||||||||
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