In the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The decline of tuberculosis in Prussia is very pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture] Reference
He was born in Prussia and became a doctor in 1933. From Wordnik.com. [Five People Born on May Day | myFiveBest] Reference
Prussia is hardly an important German state until late. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Patriotic Post] Reference
A English diplomat in Prussia, in 1809, performs the titular action and disappears. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: A Science Fiction Argosy - Damon Knight] Reference
And not till 1815 was the name Prussia strictly a designation of the whole land now so called. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
By July 27, the Ministry of War had granted Harte permission to visit all prison camps in Prussia, to establish. From Wordnik.com. [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference
Champagne; the King of Prussia is marching on Châlons; you are answerable for all the harm that will come of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
Modern forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver. From Wordnik.com. [What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant] Reference
Universal suffrage was not enacted in Prussia and England until well late in the 19th century, perhaps even later. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Organizing Your People] Reference
Kennard found that POWs from the Stammlager at Soltau in Prussia had been sent to fifty different branch labor camps. From Wordnik.com. [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference
This field secretary covered a tremendous territory, which included five provinces in Prussia and Mecklenburg, or six. From Wordnik.com. [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference
The word Prussia was, of course, intended to remind the South Germans that Alsace-Lorraine belonged not to them but to Prussia. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
The tearing down of a great, monstrous machine like Prussia is an extremely important and an extremely spectacular piece of work. From Wordnik.com. [The Forward Movement] Reference
Is kept in Prussia as the feast of St. Dorothea of Montau. From Wordnik.com. [10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002] Reference
To call Prussia the former name of Germany is like calling. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Our next crimes had been in calling Prussia to our aid against. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Irish POW at the propaganda prison camp at Limburg-am-Lahn in Prussia. From Wordnik.com. [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference
Prussia, which is prescribed by good feeling and by the constitution, but. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
Prussia, which is in fact but a new-born state, makes the whole of Europe tremble. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He had a knack of calling Prussia “Germany,” as he used to call Piedmont “Italy.”. From Wordnik.com. [Cavour]
Perhaps it may be disturbed by the death of the King of Prussia, which is constantly expected. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Prussia, that is, this patch of weeds, could not extend until the West weakened through schism. From Wordnik.com. [Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"] Reference
In 1912, Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was born to a family of aristocrats in Prussia. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring 'Von Braun'] Reference
"Yes, papa; that is the country after which Prussia is called Prussia and after which we are all called Prussians.". From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
A flattering picture of Prussia, which is preparing for freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
To this Corps, the name of which is the old form of "Prussia," the Emperor belonged when at. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
Page 507, Volume 4 powers — such as Prussia — under constant foreign mili - tary pressure. From Wordnik.com. [WAR AND MILITARISM] Reference
I suppose in Prussia it was quite usual. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference
200,000 men; Elizabeth's chancellor, on that account, called Prussia. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
King of Prussia offered her an asylum with the Emperor at. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He tried to strike down his neighbor, Prussia -- and fell. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Prince of Prussia -- which, after having fought and won the battle of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In 1866, at the moment when war broke out between Prussia and Austria. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
During the 18th century it was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria. From Wordnik.com. [The Lesson Of Poland] Reference
He was born in the province of Posen, so violently seized on by Prussia, that octopus of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Born Dec. 6, 1898, in Prussia, he returned from a vacation in 1927 with a shot of a tennis player. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898-1995] Reference
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