
Information
Name: Duchy of Prussia
Type: Polity
Nation: prussia
Start: 1525
End: 1618
Duchy of Prussia: All Data
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Was a duchy established in 1525 in eastern Prussia, after West Prussia had become the Polish province of Royal Prussia, according to the Peace of Toruń (Thorn) of 1466. It remained a vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1657 when the Hohenzollern prince-electors of the Margraviate of Brandenburg acquired suzerainty over the territory under the Treaty of Wehlau.