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Article: Pressure on Prussia.(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2002
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QUESTION Are there any Germans still living in what was once Prussia?
THE original Prussia (later known as East Prussia) was a region on the south-east coast of the Baltic, today containing the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and parts of north-eastern Poland. The number of ethnic Germans in this area now is fewer than 10,000.
The first-known inhabitants were the Borussi, a pagan West Slavic tribe who resisted outside control until the 13th century, when their lands were invaded by Teutonic knights. The invaders settled in the new lands, either killing or assimilating the Borussi, and becoming known as Borussians (from which we get Prussians).
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