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Article: Prussia
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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PRUSSIA
PRUSSIA.
Prussia has become a byword for Germany, but it originally developed on the southeastern Baltic shore distinct from the German-speaking
population of the Holy Roman Empire. Prussia's subsequent association with central Europe stems from the Hohenzollern dynasty, which came to rule both it and much of north Germany and helped forged these disparate possessions into a major European power.
CONFLICTING VIEWS OF EARLY MODERN PRUSSIA
Historical writing on Prussia is dominated by two related problems. First, there is the controversy surrounding the region historically known as Prussia that has become enmeshed in political and ideological struggles between Germans and ...