Rhine Province
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| Capital | Koblenz |
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| - Established | 1822 | ||||
| - Loss of Saar | 1920 | ||||
| - Disestablished | 1946 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - 1939 | 24,477 km2 9,451 sq mi |
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| Population | |||||
| - 1905 est. | 6,435,778 | ||||
| - 1939 est. | 7,931,942 | ||||
| Density | 324.1 /km² 839.3 /sq mi |
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| Political Subdivisions | Aachen Cologne Düsseldorf Koblenz Trier |
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| Today part of | North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Hesse Baden-Württemberg Eupen-Malmedy |
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The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz in German) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1822 to 1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its capital was Koblenz and in 1939 it had 8.0 million inhabitants.
In 1920, the Saar was separated from the Rhine Province and administered by the League of Nations until a plebiscite in 1935, when the region was returned to Germany. At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium (see German-Speaking Community of Belgium). In 1946, the Rhine Province was divided up between the newly-founded states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525 – 1947)
Before 1701: Prussia | Brandenburg | Farther Pomerania | Magdeburg | Halberstadt | Cleves | Mark | Ravensberg | Minden |
Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg | Arguin | Crab Island | Tertholen
After 1701: Neuchâtel | Hither Pomerania | East Frisia | Silesia (1740) | Glatz (1763) | Polish Prussia, Netze District (1772) |
South Prussia (1793) | New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795)
Reorder after 1814–5: East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Prussia) | Brandenburg | Pomerania | Posen | Saxony | Silesia | Westphalia | Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) | Hohenzollern (1850, Hohenzollern-Hechingen & Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) | Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–8)
Later administrational reforms: Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) | Greater Berlin, West Prussia (district) (1920) | Posen-West Prussia (1922) |
Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Electoral Hesse, Nassau (1944)
