Old Prussia was the land extending from the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea to the Masurian Lakes district, known as Prussia, was called Brus in the 8th century map of the Bavarian Geographer. Previous historians had documented the Prussian tribes as Easterners : Aesti or Aisti. Prussia was recorded as having been the object of Adalbert of Prague, who was sent with soldiers of Boleslaw I Chrobry and who was martyred in 997 AD. Archealogical finds in Prussia date a continuous presence back to at least two thousand BC. The Baltic people spoke a variety of languages, with Prussian belonging to the western branch of the Baltic language group which is no longer spoken. Distantly related, yet not mutually intelligible, are modern representatives of Baltic languages, Latvian and Lithuanian, which are classified as East Baltic languages. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. ... Masurian Lakeland (Polish Pojezierze Mazurskie) - Lake district, northeastern Poland, containing more than 2,000 lakes. ... The Bavarian Geographer is anonymous medieval document prepared in ca. ... Silver coffin of St. ... Events City of Gdansk is founded Saint Adalbert of Prague is sent to Prussia by Boleslaus I of Poland Samuil of Bulgaria crowned Tsar by Pope Gregory V The town of Trondheim is founded. ... The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. ...
In prehistory this area had been inhabited by Eastern Balts (eastern parts - most of the territory) and the Western Balts (Sambian peninsula and the areas nearby). Over time, the Western Balts consolidated into the Prussian nation (not to be confused with East Prussian, which means local German), while the Eastern Balts consolidated into a part of the Lithuanian nation. Sambia (German: ; Polish: ; Russian: ) is a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. ... The Prussians kill Adalbert The Prussian people, or (old) Prussians, inhabited the area around the Curonian and Vistula Lagoons, (in what is now northern Poland), in the region roughly occupied by the Mazurian Lakes. ...
Prussia as a state was abolished de facto by the Nazis in 1934 and de jure by the Allied Powers in 1945.
Prussia's reward in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna was the recovery of her lost territories, as well as the whole of the Rhineland, Westphalia, and some other territories.
Prussia was extended on 1 April 1937, for instance, by the incorporation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
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