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Flag of the Prussian kingdom for most of the 1800s Karl Richard Lepsius and his team fly the Prussian flag from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops (painted by Johann Jakob Frey) Prussian flag on an 1890 cigarette card; this is the civil flag. Prussian flag captured by Swedish soldiers during The Battle of Frisches Haff in 1759
The Kingdom of Prussia [a] ( German: Königreich Preußen, pronounced [ˈkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. [5] It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1866 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. [5]
Prussia, in European history, any of three historical areas of eastern and central Europe. It is most often associated with the kingdom ruled by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, which claimed much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871.
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The Kingdom of Prussia formed when Elector Frederick III assumed the title of Frederick I, King in Prussia, on 18 January 1701. Prussian flag on an 1890 cigarette card; this is the civil flag. Hohenzollern monarchical rule of Prussia ceased in 1918 after the fall of the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I; the Kingdom becoming instead ...
Dec 9, 2013 · The Kingdom of Prussia Civil Flag was a simple black-white horizontal bicolor. Norman Martin, 20 January 1998. An article by Dr. Whitney Smith, Gwenn ha Du (black and white) in Ar Banniel, 1999, mentions "4. Kingdom of Prussia - National flag until 1935 - Horizontal black-white." Ivan Sache, 2 August 1999
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia (1871–1918), in the era of Wilhelm II. The Hohenzollern family uses the motto Nihil Sine Deo (English: Nothing Without God ). The family coat of arms, first adopted in 1192, began as a simple shield quarterly sable and argent.
The Kingdom of Prussia constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1866 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. Although it took its name from the region called Prussia, it was based in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Its capital was Berlin.
