PRUSSIA,1822 Antique Map

Historical Collectible Map

General Information: former state, the largest and most important of the German states. Berlin was the capital. The chief member of the German Empire (1871-1918) and a state of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Prussia occupied more than half of all Germany and the major part of N Germany. Before 1919 it consisted of 13 provinces: Berlin, Brandenburg , East Prussia (separated after 1919 from the rest of Prussia by the Polish Corridor ), Hanover , Hesse-Nassau, Hohenzollern (a Prussian enclave between Württemberg and Baden in SW Germany), Pomerania , Rhine Province , Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein , Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia, and Westphalia . (Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia was sometimes considered a 14th province.) Prussia surrounded several smaller German states and stretched from the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg in the west to those of Lithuania and Poland an Forest, and the Sudetes Mts. in the south. The region that was Prussia is made up mainly of low-lying land, drained by several rivers, notably the Rhine; the Weser; the Oder; and the Elbe, which divided the state into roughly equal eastern and western parts. After Berlin, the largest cities of the area were Cologne, Breslau (Wroclaw), Essen, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Dortmund, Magdeburg, and Königsberg (Kaliningrad). The region also included the gigantic industrial Ruhr district.

CONDITION: Very Good Condition. Map Image is clear, crisp and sharp with beautiful detail. Blank on Reverse side. As Scanned.