ERMELAND

ĕrˈməlänt, Ermlandĕrmˈlänt, or Warmiawôrˈmēə, historic region of East Prussia, extending far inland from the Baltic Sea. It was ceded to Poland in 1466 by the Teutonic Knights, passed to Prussia in 1772, and reverted to Poland after World War II.

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The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire
Book by J. A. R. Marriott, C. Grant Robertson; Clarendon Press, 1915
Subjects: Prussia (Germany)--History
...was to be held as a Swedish fief and Ermeland secularized and annexed to it, made...in the same year, East Prussia and Ermeland were to be sovereign possessions of the...promised him East Prussia, but without Ermeland, free of Polish suzerainty. The final...
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Ploetz' Manual of Universal History
Book by William H. Tillinghast, Karl Julius Ploetz; Houghton Mifflin, 1925
Subjects: History--Outlines, Syllabi, Etc
...Poland. He received also the bishopric of Ermeland . Uprising in Poland against the Swedes...the sovereignty over East Prussia and Ermeland. Nevertheless, Russia, Denmark and...sovereignty over East Prussia, but not over Ermeland, for which he received compensation...
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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 13
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1911
Subjects: History, Modern
...Warkworth, the Old Pretender proclaimed at, VI 98 Warmia Ermeland , m 83; and Gustavus Adolphus, rv 186; and Treaty of Konigsberg...bishopric of, v 634 , VI 669; Prussia and, v 667; VI 730 sq. Ermeland , Andrew Chrysostom, Bishop of, v 663 Warnemunde, Peter...
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Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the Reformation, 1521-1532
Book by Martin Brecht, James L. Schaaf; Fortress Press, 1994
Subjects: Luther, Martin--1483-1546, Reformers--Germany--Biography
...138, 147, 189, 203, 254, 282, 334, 345, 346, 446 Ermeland, bishop of. See Ferber, Moritz Ernest II (count of Mansfeld...331 Feilitzsch, Fabian von, 381 Ferber, Moritz (bishop of Ermeland), 79 Ferdinand (archduke, after 1526 king of Bohemia...
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Germany's Eastern Neighbours: Problems Relating to the Oder-Neisse Line and the Czech Frontier Regions
Book by Elizabeth Wiskemann; Oxford University Press, 1956
Subjects: Germans--Czechoslovakia, Refugees--Germany, Western And Northern Territories (Poland)
Warmia or Ermeland, which, like West Prussia, had belonged to Poland until 1772. Here...Catholic Germans around them in the ancient German Catholic bishopric of Ermeland, the Masurians were Lutheran. But they had not been affected by Polish...
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The Scientific Revolution Reshapes the World: Nicolaus Copernicus
Magazine article by Richard G. Olso; World and I, Vol. 14, April 1999
...he never took holy orders, Copernicus was appointed canon of the Frauenburg Cathedral in 1497 by his uncle, the bishop of Ermeland. After a leave of absence to pursue studies in Italy and teach mathematics at Rome, he returned to become his uncles physician...


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Ermeland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ERMELAND er m lant, Ermland erm lant, or Warmia wor me , historic region of East Prussia, extending far inland from the Baltic Sea...
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Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...region later known as East Prussia (excluding the bishopric of Ermeland ), separated from Brandenburg by a part of Poland (later...partitions of ) Prussia gained Pomerelia (except Danzig) and Ermeland. Pomerelia was organized into the province of West Prussia...
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Ermland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ERMLAND see Ermeland . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Poland, Partitions Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Prussia. King Stanislaus II of Poland was unable to resist his three neighbors. The partition of 1772 gave Pomerelia and Ermeland to Prussia, Latgale and Belarus E of the Dvina and Dnieper rivers to Russia, and Galicia to Austria. When in 1791 the remainder...
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East Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the Teutonic Knights. In 1466, by the Peace of Torun, the knights ceded Pomerelia (later a part of West Prussia ) and Ermeland to Poland and accepted Polish suzerainty over the rest of their domain. Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg , after secularizing...
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