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Teutonic Knights of Prussia (Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
The State of the Teutonic Order (German: Staat des Deutschen Ordens; Latin: Civitas Ordinis Theutonici), also called Deutschordensstaat or Ordensstaat in German, is a crusader state formed by the Teutonic Knights or Teutonic Order during the thirteenth century Northern Crusades along the Baltic Sea.
The state is based in Prussia after the Order's conquest of the Pagan Old Prussians which had begun in 1230, but also expands to include the historic regions of Courland, Gotland, Livonia, Neumark, Pomerelia and Samogitia.
Its territory is in the modern countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia.
Most of the territory is conquered by military orders, after which German colonization occurs to varying effect.The Livonian Brothers of the Sword controlling Terra Mariana are incorporated into the Teutonic Order as its autonomous branch Livonian Order in 1237.
In 1346, the Duchy of Estonia is sold by the King of Denmark for nineteen thousand Köln marks to the Teutonic Order.
The shift of sovereignty from Denmark to the Teutonic Order takes place on November 1, 1346.
Following its defeat in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, the Teutonic Order falls into decline and its Livonian branch joins the Livonian Confederation established in 1422–35.
The Teutonic lands in Prussia are split in two after the Peace of Thorn in 1466.
The western part of Teutonic Prussia is converted into Royal Prussia, which becomes a more integral part of Poland.
The monastic state in the east is secularized in 1525 during the Protestant Reformation as the Duchy of Prussia, a Polish fief governed by the House of Hohenzollern.
The Livonian branch continues as part of the Livonian Confederation until its dissolution in 1561.
Member Cities
- Marienburg > Malbork Elblag Poland Capital
- Battle of Grunwald Olsztyn Poland Location
- Berlin Berlin Germany Location
- Breslau > Wroclaw Wroclaw Poland Location
- Bryansk > Br'ansk Bryanskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Budapest Budapest Hungary Location
- Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz Poland Location
- Cernigov > Chernigov > Chernihiv Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Chojnice > Konitz Bydgoszcz Poland Location
- Constance > Konstanz Baden-Württemberg Germany Location
- Danzig > Gdansk Gdansk Poland Location
- Dobrzyn nad Wisla Wloclawek Poland Location
- Elbing > Elblag Elblag Poland Location
- Gdansk (Danzig) Gdansk Poland Location
- Grudziadz Torun Poland Location
- Kalisz Kalisz Poland Location
- Kiev > Kijev Kyyivs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Kraków Krakow Poland Location
- Krasnyj Perekop Khersons'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Königsberg > Kaliningrad Kaliningradskaya Russia Location
- Leczyca Plock Poland Location
- Luts'k > Luck > Lutsk Volyns'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Moscow > Moskva Moskovskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Novgorod Novgorodskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Novosibirsk Novosibirskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Plowce Bydgoszcz Poland Location
- Poltava Poltavs'ka Oblast Ukraine Location
- Raciaz Ciechanow Poland Location
- Selitryannoye Astrakhanskya Russia Location
- Siauliai Siauliu Lithuania Location
- Siret Suceava Romania Location
- Smolensk Smolenskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Suceava Suceava Romania Location
- Tallinn Harjumaa Estonia Location
- Telsiai Telsiai Lithuania Location
- Thorn > Torun Torun Poland Location
- Tilsit > Sovetsk Kaliningradskaya Russia Location
- Torzok > Torzhok Tverskaya Oblast Russia Location
- Vilnius Vilnius Lithuania Location
- Vilnius Vilnius Lithuania Location
- Visby Gotlands Län Sweden Location
- Wroclaw (Breslau) Wroclaw Poland Location