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In1226,theterritoryofDukeKonrad(amemberoftheTeutonicOrder),sonoftheKingofPolandandheadoftheDuchyofMazovia,wasalsoattackedbythePrussians,takingthisasanopportunity,TheTeutonicKnightslaunchedtheEasternExpeditioninPrussiafornearly200years,andsuccessivelyestablishedthefortressesofTorun,Marienburg,Kulm,andElpin,conqueredtheareaswherethePrussianslivedandforcedthemtobelieveinChristianity,useGerman.
TheHohenzollernfamilyestablishedtheDuchyofPrussiaatthebeginningofthe16thcentury,anditwaschangedtotheKingdomofPrussiaatthebeginningofthe18thcentury.Later,itssuccessivekingscontinuedtoexpandtheirterritories,extendingfromEasternEuropetocentralandwesternGermany.
Inthemid-nineteenthcentury,theKingdomofPrussiabegantheindustrialrevolutionandbecamethemostdevelopedvassalstateofcapitalisteconomyinGermany.
TheGermanEmpireestablishedin1871wasactuallyanexpansionofthePrussiankingdom.Prussiaoccupies2/3oftheterritoryand3/5ofthepopulationintheempire.AftertheFirstWorldWar,theGermanEmpiredisintegrated,PrussiabecameastateoftheWeimarRepublic,anditspowerwasreduced.
AfterHitlerseizedpowerinGermanyinthe1930s,heabolishedthePrussianConstitution.
AfterWorldWarII,thenorthernpartofEastPrussiawasmergedintotheSovietUnion(nowtheenclaveoftheRussianFederation-KalininOblast),thesouthernpartwasputunderPoland,andtheremainingpartwasputintotheirrespectiveoccupationareasbyBritain,FranceandtheSovietUnion.Theybecamepartofthepresent-dayBrandenburgandNorthRhine-Westphalia,HesseandRhineland-Palatinate.
OnMarch1,1947,theAlliedforcesformallyabolishedthePrussianestablishment.Fromnowon,PrussiansarerarelyusedtorefertoGermans.
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ThefollowingarethekingsoftheKingdomofPrussia.PrussiawaspromotedtoakingdomduringthereignofFrederickI.BecausehepromisedtohelptheHolyRomanEmperorLeopoldI,theemperorpromotedhistitlebyelectortoking.Priortothis,PrussiahadestablishedthePrincipalityofPrussia,whichbelongedtoPoland,whichwaslatermergedwiththeElectorateofBrandenburg.
Всички пруски монарси принадлежат към династията Хохенцолер.
Фредерик царува от 1701-1713 г
Фридрих Уилям царува от 1713-1740 г
Фридрих II (Велики) управлява от 1740 до 1786 г
Фредерик Вилхелм II царува от 1786 до 1797 г
Фридер Вилхелм III управлява от 1797 до 1840 г
Фридрих Уилям IV царува 1840-1861
Уилям царува 1861-1888
Фредерик III (Стодневен император) 1888 г. Управлява
Уилям II 1888-1918 Царува
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Уилям II 1918-1940
Принц Уилям 1940-1951
Принц Луи Фердинанд 1951-1994
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