West Prussia
Province of Prussia (1772–1829, 1878–1919)
West Prussia
The Province of West Prussia (German: Provinz Westpreußen; Kashubian: Zôpadné Prësë; Polish: Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and from 1878 to 1919. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1773, formed from Royal Prussia following its annexation in the First Partition of Poland. West Prussia was merged with East Prussia in 1829 to form the Province of Prussia, then re-established in 1878 when the merger was reversed under the German Empire. West Prussia was a province of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany in 1918–1919, but it lost most of its territory to the Second Polish Republic and the Free City of Danzig under the Treaty of Versailles. It was therefore dissolved in 1919, with its remaining western territory merging with Posen to form the Prussian Province Posen–West Prussia. Its eastern territory became part of East Prussia as the Region of West Prussia. West Prussia's provincial capital alternated between Marienwerder...
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