New East Prussia

New East Prussia
Provinz Neuostpreußen
Province of New East Prussia
Province of Kingdom of Prussia
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History
 - Third Partition October 24 1795
 - Treaty of Tilsit July 9 1807
Area
 - 1806 55,000 km2 (21,236 sq mi)
Population
 - 1806 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 Podlaskie. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territorial area of less than 55,000 km².

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Geography

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

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:

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 Plozk which were divided into the following counties (Kreise):


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Neuchâtel (1707) · Guelders (1713) · Minden-Ravensberg (1719) · Western Pomerania (1720, 1815) · Silesia / Glatz (1742) · East Frisia (1744) · East / West Prussia (1772-73) · South Prussia (1793) · New East Prussia / New Silesia (1795)
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Brandenburg · Pomerania · Grand Duchy of Posen1 · Saxony · Silesia · Westphalia · Rhine Province2 (1822) · Province of Prussia (1824–78) · Hohenzollern (1850) · Schleswig-Holstein / Hanover / Hesse-Nassau (1866–68)
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after 1918

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1 Became Province of Posen in 1848.   2 From the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
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