okay so just heard of this "teutonoic p....." in my histroy book and i was just wondering what it was. in my class, we aren't learning about them, we are learning about the renaissance and in a map on the page, i saw the "poliand lithuanian kingdom/commonwhealth" where belarus and west ukraine and south poland should be, and the "teutonic p..." where most of poland and all of the baltic states should be. why is the "TEUTONIC P.." no longer a country and why is poland and lithuania not where the poland lithuanian commonewhealth was?
wikipedia says, or as what i tried to understand from it says, that this teutonic p... is actually germany. if true, why not call it germany?
Interestingly, the lands conquered by the Knights of the Cross (aka Teutonic Knights) were named after the pagan Prussians the Teutons had slaughtered. That area came to be known as Prussia, and that was the name of the 19th/20th century . Kingdom of Prussia, also known as the Second Reich, which fought in WW1. Hitler prefered the name Deutschland (Germany) for his Third Reich, of which Prussia (Preußen) was one of its regions.
Some say inviting the Krzyżacy by Duke Conrad of Masovia was the biggets blunder ever committed in Polish history. The alien enclave festered like a cancerous growth until 1945. Then, rather than splitting the area up between Poland and Lithuanian, Stalin put his fiothy paw on Królewiec region and turned it into the Kalininrgad enclave. He needed a warm-water port that did not freeze over and the doddering old FRD and usually shrewd and crafty Churchill gave in.
