Province of Prussia
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The Province of Prussia (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1824 to 1878. The province was established in 1824 from the provinces of West Prussia and East Prussia, and was dissolved in 1878 when the merger was reversed.<ref name="gsta">Template:Cite web</ref>
Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad, Russia) was the provincial capital.
History
Duchy of Prussia became part of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1618, and became the Kingdom of Prussia upon Frederick I of Prussia's coronation as king in 1701. After the coronation, the term "Province of Prussia" was used to designate East Prussia to differentiate the former duchy's territory within the larger kingdom. Royal Prussia (consisting of the Malbork Land and Warmia which were parts of historical Prussia, but also of the Pomerelia, historically Polish) was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 during the First Partition of Poland, placing them under Prussian rule under the name West Prussia, with the exception of Warmia, integrated into East Prussia.<ref name="gsta" />
The Province of Prussia was created on 13 April 1824 as the easternmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia. The province was formed in a merger with the pre-existing provinces of West Prussia and East Prussia joined together in a personal union and, from 3 December 1829, in a real union. Its territory included the entire historical region of Prussia, from which the province and the kingdom derived their names, as well as Pomerelia and (following the Congress of Vienna) parts of Greater Poland. On 1 April 1878 the Province of Prussia was divided back into the provinces of West Prussia and East Prussia.<ref name="gsta" />