Word: thom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prussia was 1,703,474 of which 980,-571 were of Polish stock. Frederick the Great added West Prussia to his kingdom, comprising Pomerania and East Prussia, in 1772 by the first partition of Poland. That province had been a part of the Polish kingdom since the treaty of Thom in 1466, when it had been acquired from the Teutonic Knights. In those three centuries West Prussia had become thoroughly Polish in population and customs. Danzig, added to the New Prussia in 1792, was up to that time a free city under Polish protection. That is the exact status which...