East Prussia

East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Lithuanian: Ryt? Pr?sija; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: ????????? ??????? — Vostochnaya Prussiya; Dutch: Oost-Pruisen; Spanish: Prusia Oriental;) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and of the German Empire, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. Today the northern part of East Prussia, with the exception of the "Memelland" which is now part of Lithuania, corresponds to Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast (Königsberg); the southern parts form Poland's Warminsko-Mazurskie Voivodship. East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancient ancestral lands of the Baltic Prussians.

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German - Lithuanian - Polish - Russian - Dutch - Spanish - Kingdom of Prussia - German Empire - Ducal Prussia - Memelland - Russia - Kaliningrad Oblast - Warminsko-Mazurskie Voivodship - The Baltic Prussians

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East Prussia was located along the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.

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Its capital was Königsberg (renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 by the Soviet Union).

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Kaliningrad - 1946 - Soviet Union

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