New East Prussia
Province of New East Prussia Provinz Neuostpreußen (German) | |||||||||||||||
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Province of Kingdom of Prussia | |||||||||||||||
1795–1807 | |||||||||||||||
New East Prussia in 1806 | |||||||||||||||
Capital | Białystok[1] | ||||||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||||||
• 1806 | 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1806 | 914,610 | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
24 October 1795 | |||||||||||||||
9 July 1807 | |||||||||||||||
Political subdivisions | Bialystok Plozk | ||||||||||||||
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New East Prussia (
Trakai voivodeship and Žemaitija. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territory of less than 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi), mainly Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Belarusians
.
Geography
New East Prussia encompassed territory between
Neman rivers
.
1807 Treaties of Tilsit
Following
Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 the Province of New East Prussia was ceded according to the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit
:
- The area around Białystok was ceded to the Russian Empire, becoming the Belostok Oblast.
- The Płock Department and the remainder of the Białystok Department (Łomża Department) became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state
Administrative divisions
New East Prussia was divided into the Kammerdepartements of Bialystok and Płock which were divided into the following Kreise (districts):
References
- ISBN 9781400884926.
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