New East Prussia Explained

Common Name:New East Prussia
Conventional Long Name:Province of New East Prussia
Subdivision:Province
Nation:Kingdom of Prussia
Event Start:Third Partition
Year Start:1795
Date Start:24 October
Event End:Treaty of Tilsit
Year End:1807
Date End:9 July
P1:Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)
P2:Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1795)
P3:Trakai Voivodeship
S1:Duchy of Warsaw
Flag S1:Grand Coat of Arms of Duchy of Warsaw.svg
S2:Russian Empire
Flag S2:Flag of Russia.svg
Image Map Caption:New East Prussia in 1806
Capital:Białystok[1]
Stat Area1:55000
Stat Pop1:914610
Stat Year1:1806
Political Subdiv:Bialystok
Plozk
Today:Poland
Lithuania
Belarus¹
Footnotes:¹ Sopoćkinie area

New East Prussia (German: Neuostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Nowowschodnie; Lithuanian: Naujieji Rytprūsiai) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and included parts of Masovia, Podlaskie, Trakai voivodeship and Žemaitija. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territory of less than 55000km2, mainly Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Belarusians.

Geography

New East Prussia encompassed territory between East Prussia and the Vistula, Bug, and Neman rivers.

1807 Treaties of Tilsit

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition and the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 the Province of New East Prussia was ceded according to the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit:

Administrative divisions

New East Prussia was divided into the German: Kammerdepartements of Bialystok and Płock which were divided into the following German: [[Districts of Prussia|Kreise]] (districts):

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Finkel, Evgeny. Evgeny Finkel

    . Evgeny Finkel. Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust. Princeton University Press. 2017-02-21. 9781400884926 .