Province of East Prussia
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What is East Prussia called today?
The northern part of East Prussia is the region of Kaliningrad, Russia. The city of Kaliningrad was originally known as Königsberg. The southern part is the voivodeship of Warmia-Masuria, Poland.
East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878; following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg. East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast.
King William I appointed Otto von Bismarck as the new Minister President of in 1862. The Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 enabled him to create the North German Confederation which excluded Austria from the federation's affairs and ended the previous German Confederation