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Kingdom of Prussia
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The Kingdom of Prussia was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918, taking its name from the historical region of Prussia and ruled from its capital, Berlin, by the House of Hohenzollern. Prussia grew over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the dominant power among the German states, and under Otto von Bismarck it led the wars and diplomacy that unified Germany, becoming the leading state within the German Empire proclaimed in 1871. The kingdom itself was abolished in 1918 with the fall of the German monarchy at the end of the First World War.
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1. Wikipedia: Kingdom of Prussia
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was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918
1. Wikipedia: Kingdom of Prussia
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1701
1. Wikipedia: Kingdom of Prussia
1. Wikipedia: Kingdom of Prussia
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It played a significant role in the unification of Germany in 1871 and was a major constituent of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918.
Wikipedia: Wilhelm I of Prussia
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King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888
Wikipedia: Franco-Prussian War
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the German states proclaimed their union as the German Empire under the Prussian king Wilhelm I and Chancellor Bismarck
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