Province of Posen
Province of Prussia (1848–1920)
Province of Posen
The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen; Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. It comprised most of the historical region of Greater Poland, which is currently in the west-central part of Poland. Its capital was the city of Posen (present-day Poznań). Prussia acquired the territory that became the Province of Posen in the 1772 and 1793 partitions of Poland. During the Napoleonic Wars, the region was briefly a client state of France before it was returned to Prussia as the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1815. Following the failed Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, it was reorganised into the Province of Posen and went on to be incorporated, still as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, into the North German Confederation in 1866 and the German Empire in 1871. Following World War I, the Treaty of Versailles awarded all but two small areas in the far west of the province to the Second Polish Republic in 1920. The territory that remained with...
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