What is Prussia? | History, Location & Contributions

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Geoscope on Instagram: "Context : In the late 1700s, a weakened Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was carved up by its stronger neighbors: Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Three partitions between 1772 and 1795 erased Poland from the map entirely. It stopped existing as a sovereign state for 123 years. Poland re-emerged after World War I in 1918. But geography remained cruel. In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded from the west and the Soviet Union from the east under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Poland was di