Everything about New East Prussia totally explained
New East Prussia (; ) 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.
New East Prussia encompassed territory between
East Prussia and the
Vistula,
Western Bug, and
Neman rivers. Although
Warsaw had been annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland, the city was added to
South Prussia, which had been created in 1793. New East Prussia was subdivided into the Kammerdepartements Bialystok (
Białystok) and Plozk (
Płock)
German colonists invited to settle on the province's noble estates were known as
Hauländer, while those who settled on royal crown lands were known as
Kolonisten.
Following
Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the
War of the Fourth Coalition and a
Polish uprising, the territory of New East Prussia became part of the
Duchy of Warsaw, a
French client state, according to the 1807
Treaties of Tilsit. The
Białystok district which was ceded to the
Russian Empire.
Districts
In 1806, New East Prussia consisted of two departments (
Kriegs- und Domänen-Kammern) divided into the following districts or counties (
Kreise):
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