East Prussia

American  

noun

1. a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Königsberg.

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East Prussia British  

noun

1. German name: Ostpreussen.  a former province of NE Germany on the Baltic Sea: separated in 1919 from the rest of Germany by the Polish Corridor and Danzig: in 1945 Poland received the south part, the Soviet Union the north

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Other Word Forms

• East Prussian
  adjective

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East Prussia

In the 1830s, however, the city, then the capital of East Prussia, was “still bathed in the amber glow of the late Enlightenment,” as Christopher Clark tells us in “A Scandal in Königsberg.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Previously known as East Prussia, it was seized by the Soviet Union after World War II from Germany, which had controlled the territory for centuries.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

Kaliningrad, formerly the port of Koenigsberg, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War Two.

From Reuters ● Jun. 20, 2022

On January 22, 1945, as the Soviet army neared their estate outside of Guttstadt, East Prussia, my German family prepared to flee.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2021

That spring, Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and then demands Danzig and the Polish corridor—the land separating Germany from East Prussia.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti