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- From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
- Subject: Re: Imperial Eagles (was: Byzantine Flags, and Another Question
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- References: <1992Nov12.234327.11358@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <BxsD1s.3tE@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Nov16.181805.23606@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:47:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.181805.23606@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Velde Francois) writes:
- >I suppose that the colors of the Prussian arms are linked to that of the
- >Teutonic order. From what I read, Albert of Brandenburg, grandmaster in
- >the early 16th c., decided that it would be easier to defend what was
- >left of the order's lands if they were secularized and united to Brandenburg.
- >By then, the Knights had lost all but Eastern Prussia (centered on
- >Koenigsberg, now Kaliningrad, tomorrow <your best guess>). It took the
- >Hohenzollern 250 years to reconquer Western Prussia.
-
- I've been passing bad data, then -- I thought "Western Prussia" just meant
- the western parts of the late Kingdom, spreading across the northern part of
- today's Germany.
-
- The colors of Prussia (sable and argent), by the way, are also those of the
- house of Hohenzollern.
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