West Prussia

province of Prussia

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1910: 25,534 km (9,859 sq mi)
Capital: Marienwerder , (1773–1793, 1806–1813) , Danzig , (1793–1806, 1813–1919)
Demonym: West Prussian
Province of prussia: 1829–1878
Political subdivisions: Danzig , Marienwerder

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Today part ofPoland

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 of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth annexed in the First Partition of Poland. West Prussia was dissolved in 1829 and merged with East Prussia to form the Province of Prussia, then re-established in 1878 when the merger was reversed under the German Empire. From 1918, West Prussia was a province of the Free State of Prussia within Weimar Germany, losing most of its territory to the Second Polish Republic and the Free City of Danzig in the Treaty of Versailles. West Prussia was dissolved in 1919, and its remaining western territory was merged with Posen to form Posen-West Prussia, and its eastern territory merged with East Prussia as the Region of West Prussia district.