New East Prussia

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Provinz Neuostpreußen Province of New East Prussia Province of Kingdom of Prussia ←   ← 1795 – 1807 →   → History  - Third Partition October 24 1795  - Treaty of Tilsit July 9 1807 Area  - 1806 55,000 km² (21,236 sq mi) Population  - 1806 est. 914,610       Density 16.6 /km²  (43.1 /sq mi) Political Subdivisions Bialystok Plozk

New East Prussia (German: Neuostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Nowowschodnie) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of Poland and included parts of Masovia and Podlachia. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territorial area of less than 55,000 km².

[edit] Geography

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

[edit] 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:

• The Plozk Department became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state
• The Bialystok Department which was ceded to the Russian Empire

[edit] Administrative Divisions

New East Prussia (Neuostpreußen) and the Departments of Plozk and Bialystok, 1801-1807.

New East Prussia was divided into the Kammerdepartements Bialystok and Plozkwhich were divided into the following counties (Kreise):

• Bialystok Department
  • Bialystok
  • Bielsk
  • Bobrz
  • Dombrowa
  • Drohiczyn
  • Kalwary
  • Lomza
  • Mariampol
  • Surasz
  • Wygry
• Plozk Department
  • Lipno
  • Mlawa
  • Ostrolenka
  • Plozk
  • Przasnik
  • Pultusk
  • Wyszogrod

[edit] External links

• FAQ for Posen, South Prussia, and New East Prussia