2) Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Berlin was the capital. The chief member of the German Empire (1871-1918) and a state of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Prussia occupied more than half of all Germany...

3) Pommerellen. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pommerellen, see Pomerania; West Prussia....

4) Pomorze. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pomorze, see Bydgoszcz; Pomerania; West Prussia....

5) Piia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Once the capital of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, it is now chiefly a trade and industrial center. It was devastated in World War II, after which it reverted to Poland....

6) East Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in Masuria). The region is drained by several...

7) Oliva, Peace of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Oliva (now a suburb of Gdansk) by Poland and Sweden. John II of Poland renounced the theoretical claim of his line to the Swedish crown, which his father, Sigismund...

8) Teutonic Knights. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...German military religious order founded (1190-91) during the siege of Acre in the Third Crusade. It was originally known as the Order of the Knights of the Hospital...

9) Pomerania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Baltic Sea from a line W of Stralsund, Germany, to the Vistula River in Poland. From 1919 to 1939, Pomerania was divided among Germany, Poland, and the Free City...

10) Hohenzollern, German princely family. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...German princely family that ruled Brandenburg (1415-1918), Prussia (1525-1918), and Germany (1871-1918). 1Originating in S Germany and traceable to the 11th cent.,...