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The underdeveloped province was administered with fiscal profit being a primary goal. The first provincial minister Otto von Voss said that “South Prussia shall not have been bought at too high a price: it should be no burden to other provinces, it should even benefit them and the Prussian state”
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The General Directory records dealing with the history and genealogy of the Prussian part of Poland were taken from the Prussian archives by Napoleon Bonaparte soon after 1806 and transferred to Warsaw.
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Denkschrift über die Verwaltung Südpreussens während der ersten Amtsperiode des Ministers von Voss, September 1794, in Ingeburg Bussenius, ed.,
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Urkunden und Alten zur Geschichte der preussischen Verwaltung in Sudpreussen und Neuostpreussen 1793–1806
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Hagen, William W. “The Partitions of Poland and the Crisis of the Old Regime in Prussia 1772–1806.”
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in the north. After the Third Partition, the lands of Dobrzyń and Płock northeast of the
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Some German colonists invited to settle on the province's noble estates were known as
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and the Departments of Posen, Kalisch, and Warschau, 1801–1807
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South Prussia was created out of territory annexed in the
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from 1793 to 1807 created out of territory annexed in the
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In 1806, South Prussia consisted of three departments (
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Poznań
Warsaw
2nd Polish Partition
Warsaw
Treaties of Tilsit
Kalisz
Poznań
Warsaw
Poznań Voivodeship
Kalisz Voivodeship
Gniezno Voivodeship
Sieradz Voivodeship
Łęczyca Voivodeship
Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship
Płock Voivodeship
Rawa Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship
Duchy of Warsaw

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German
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Kingdom of Prussia
Second Partition of Poland

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