West Prussia

American  

noun

1. a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.

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West Prussia British  

noun

1. German name: Westpreussen.  a former province of NE Prussia, on the Baltic: assigned to Poland in 1945

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Other Word Forms

• West Prussian adjective

Example Sentences

The girls’ work was soon expanded to include the Danzig area in West Prussia and Upper Silesia.

From Literature

Michael’s parents, Werner and Eva, resettled from Berlin to what was euphemistically called West Prussia after the Nazis conquered Poland.

From Forbes

A dispute over the ownership of Bosnia and Herzegovina was what started World War I. Ground zero for World War II was Danzig/Gdansk and a thin strip of West Prussia.

From Newsweek

In 1455, when the Teutonic Order had become thoroughly corrupt, Danzig shook off its yoke and submitted to the king of Poland, to whom it was formally ceded, along with the whole of West Prussia, at the peace of Thorn.

From Project Gutenberg

In the cities of the Prussian monarchy and subject to the slaughter-house tax, it amounted in 1846, per capita: in East Prussia, to 61 lbs.; in Pommerania, to 66; in Posen, to 70; in West Prussia, to 71; in Saxony, to 75; in the Rhine Province, to 83; in Silesia, to 86; in Brandenburg, to nearly 104; in Berlin alone, to 114: an average in the whole country, however, of scarcely 40 lbs. per capita.

From Project Gutenberg