Province of New East Prussia Provinz Neuostpreußen (German) | |||||||||||||||
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Province of Kingdom of Prussia | |||||||||||||||
1795–1807 | |||||||||||||||
New East Prussia in 1806 | |||||||||||||||
Capital | Białystok[1] | ||||||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||||||
• 1806 | 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1806 | 914,610 | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
24 October 1795 | |||||||||||||||
9 July 1807 | |||||||||||||||
Political subdivisions | Bialystok Plozk | ||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Poland Lithuania Belarus¹ | ||||||||||||||
¹ Sopoćkinie area |
New East Prussia (German: Neuostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Nowowschodnie; Lithuanian: Naujieji Rytprūsiai) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and included parts of Masovia, Podlaskie, Trakai voivodeship and Žemaitija. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territory of less than 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi), mainly Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Belarusians.