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1. This province was also the capital of Prussia from 1701. It was made a separate region of Prussia in 1881, but didn't became a province until 1920 and its province status only lasted until 1934.
2. The Elector of this province became the king of Prussia in 1701.
3. This province was a vassal of Poland from 1466. It was included in the duchy of Prussia by Albert of Brandenburg in 1525.
4. This province became a province of Prussia as a result of the Austro-Prussian war in 1866. The province was formerly a duchy, later a kingdom. As a duchy it had a personal union with England 1714-1837. It was a kingdom 1814-1866.
5. This province was formed in 1849 from the territories of __________-Hechingen and _________-Sigmaringen.
6. This province was formed from territories annexed in 1866 including Hesse-Kassel (sometimes called "Electoral Hesse"), the duchy of Nassau and the free city of Frankfurt am Main.
7. This province belonged to Poland from 1466 as a duchy. It later came under Brandenburg who divided it with Sweden in 1648. The Swedish part was ceded to Prussia in 1720 except for the island of Rügen and adjoining territory on the mainland which also was ceded to Prussia in 1815.
8. The award of this territory to Prussia in 1815 represented the greatest Prussian territorial gain since the partitions of Poland. At first divided into two provinces, the entire region was constituted as _______ in 1824, with capital at Koblenz.
9. This province came to Prussia in 1793. It became a part of Poland in 1918. Its capital is one of the oldest cities in Poland.
10. In 1815 Prussia won 40 % of a kingdom. This became the Prussian province of ________, with capital at Magdeburg. The rest of the kingdom became a member of the German Confederation.
11. All of this province except for the extreme south-east was ceded to Prussia from Austria in 1742.
12. Two former duchies were annexed to Prussia as this province in 1866.
13. This province was divided between Prussia and Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803. It was reorganized by the Congress of Vienna and became a province of Prussia in 1816. In 1946 it was divided among North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse states, West Germany.
14. This province became a part of Prussia in 1772. In 1919 it was divided between Poland, the Free City of Danzig and Germany.
15. This province is a part of a province that was subdivided into two provinces in 1742. The south east portion which included many large mining and industrial communities was assigned to Poland in 1921.
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