New East Prussia

Province of New East Prussia Provinz Neuostpreußen
Province of Kingdom of Prussia
←   ← 1795–1807 →   →
New East Prussia in 1806
History
•	Third Partition	October 24, 1795
•	Treaty of Tilsit	July 9, 1807
Area
•	1806	55,000 km2 (21,236 sq mi)
Population
•	1806	914,610
	Density	16.6 /km2  (43.1 /sq mi)
Political subdivisions		Bialystok Plozk

New East Prussia (German: Neuostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Nowowschodnie; Lithuanian: Naujieji Rytprūsiai) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and included parts of Masovia, Podlaskie, Trakai voivodeship and Žemaitija. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territory of less than 55,000 km².

Geography

New East Prussia encompassed territory between East Prussia and the Vistula, Bug River, and Neman rivers.

1807 Treaties of Tilsit

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition and the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 the Province of New East Prussia was ceded according to the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit:

• The Plozk Department became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state
• The Białystok Department which was ceded to the Russian Empire

Administrative divisions

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New East Prussia (Neuostpreußen) and the Departments of Plozk and Bialystok, 1801–1807

New East Prussia was divided into the Kammerdepartements Bialystok and Plozk which were divided into the following counties (Kreise):

• Bialystok Department
  • Bialystok
  • Bielsk
  • Bobrz
  • Dombrowa
  • Drohiczyn
  • Kalwary
  • Lomza
  • Mariampol
  • Surasz
  • Wygry
• Plozk Department
  • Lipno
  • Mlawa
  • Ostrolenka
  • Plozk
  • Przasnik
  • Pultusk
  • Wyszogrod

External links

• FAQ for Posen, South Prussia, and New East Prussia