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Article: The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772. (Reviews: early modern Europe).

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The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772, by Karen Friedrich. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 280 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth).

Divided by the Vistula River, the Prussian lands of the southern Baltic littoral, which were conquered by the Teutonic Order by the fourteenth century and opened to German-speaking settlers, were incorporated into Poland in 1454. The Thirteen Years War (1454-66) between the Prussian estates, aided by Poland and Lithuania, and the Teutonic Knights, was brought to an end by the Second Peace of Torun (Thom) in 1466. One major result of this new arrangement was the ... 







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