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Prussia (German: Preußen (help·info); Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Latvian: Prūsija; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Polish: Prusy; Old Prussian: Prūsa; Danish: Prøjsen; Russian: Пру́ссия) was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history of Germany, with its capital in Berlin after 1451. By 1871, the smaller German city states were merged with Prussia, resulting in the creation of the German Empire. In November 1918 the royalty abdicated and the nobility lost most of its political power. Prussia was effectively abolished in 1932, and officially abolished in 1947.
The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians. In the 13th century, "Old Prussia" was conquered by German crusaders, the Teutonic Knights. In 1308 Teutonic Knights conquered the formerly Polish region of Pomerelia with Gdańsk (Danzig). Their monastic state was mostly Germanized through immigration from central and western Germany and in the south it was Polonized by settlers from Masovia. After the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, Prussia was split into the western Royal Prussia, a province of Poland, and the eastern part, since 1525 called Duchy of Prussia, a fief of the Crown of Poland up to 1657. The union of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 led to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.
I've been around the world
In search of my reality
To write a page in history
Centuries live in me.
I walk and breathe nostalgia
A prisoner of time
I do, yes I do
Show me your paradise
I hide my own in sharp disguise
Reside up high my paradise
Memoirs I do
The spear of destination
A classy colonnade
My path to contemplation
The monument I made
The glass I drank was shattered
The wound has left a scar
I pass my dream in silence
My sunset boulevard
I've been around the world
In search of my reality
I sign my page in history
Memoirs I do
Leave me to pray the past
I contemplate the role I cast
And meditate the play to last
Future plans progress fast
The nation that I dreamed
Of a prophecy came true
The culture that I leaned
On replaced by something new
I leave the past behind me
Emotional divorce
The future is my saviour