What is prussia

Posted: Thu, Feb 16 2012, 7:33 pm Post subject: what is prussia

I asked my dad where his father's family came from and he said they came from Prussia. where is that? my family is not charedi or anything

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lol, why didn't you ask him? Smile

they came from germany is what it means

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_16145.html

Posted: Sat, Feb 18 2012, 4:16 pm Post subject: re: what is prussia

Why not google it?
No link with being charedi or not charedi or frum. It's a place.
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I believe it used to be a "state" of some sorts in germany

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lol.
I never understand why people use imamother as google. a google search is quicker, easier and more reliable.

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My grandfather was from dizna Poland and I heard that there was a war between poland and russia who owned the place... and now its called prussia. ( I may be wrong!)

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To clarify:
He was from Dizna Poland.... now the place that he is from is in a town in Russia since there was a war and it became Russia.

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Prussia was a country in Central Europe. After WWI, it was divvied up- Germany, Russia and Poland each got a piece of the pie.

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Google. Or even better, wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia

I just started writing a whole European history post, but wiki does it best.

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its like russia with a p.

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Posted: Sun, Feb 19 2012, 4:31 am Post subject: re: what is prussia

Prussia does not exist anymore, but it is proper to refer to someone as coming from Prussia, if that's what it was when they were born there.

European history is fabulous that way. When you think of a city or town, you have to consider the time as well. A place may have a totally different 'flavor' depending on who was ruling it at the time... not to mention its language and ethnic makeup.

If you ask me where my grandmother was born, I would tell you she was born in Austria-Hungary.

Austria-Hungary was a powerful empire once, as was Prussia.
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Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2012, 11:42 am Post subject: re: what is prussia

prussia has nothing whatsoever to do with russia or poland ( I am a history graduate which is why I know this lol).

before the late unification of Germany in the late 1800's, there were many German speaking kingdoms. it was like the united states, I.e, different states, but not unified. The major kingdom was Prussia. Prussia was home to Otto Van Bismarck, a German nationalist, who wanted to unite all these little kingdoms into one large country called Germany. Bismarck and Prussia defeated Austria-Hungary in the Austro-Prussian War and France in the Franco-Prussian War. These victories helped Bismarck unite the German kingdoms into Germany, with Prussia as the center of government, under Kaiser Wilhelm I and later Wilhelm II.

so Prussia was a nation that existed alone until around 1870 . In 1871 the many German states were unified and Prussia constituted the largest area under the new country of Germany.

The term is not used anymore except for geographical and historical purposes. Most of what was Prussia is now modern day germany.

Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2012, 11:52 am Post subject: re: what is prussia

Yup. Just because it sounds like Russia doesn't mean it has a link to Russia. LOL ladies!!

Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2012, 12:13 pm Post subject: re: what is prussia

Prussians were known as being very warlike and military.

Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2012, 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: re: what is prussia

Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2012, 4:00 pm Post subject: re: what is prussia

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/episode6/documents/documents_2.html

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