South Prussia

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The South Prussia as a province in the Kingdom of Prussia.

South Prussia (Südpreussen in German) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1793 to 1806. It was created after the second partition of Poland and included the region of Greater Poland. The main city was Posen (Poznań) and in 1806 it had 1,503,508 inhabitants.

Following the conquest of the Napoleonic armies and a Polish rebellion in 1806, it became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state. After the Congress of Vienna, in 1815 it was divided between the Prussian Province of Posen and Congress Poland as a part of the Russian Empire.

Districts

In 1806 the Province of South Prussia had three districts (departments):

Posen ("Departement der Kriegs- und Domainen-Kammer zu Posen") included the counties ("Kreise") of:
*Posen
*Oborniki
*Meseritz
*Bomst
*Fraustadt
*Krebe
*Schrim
*Kosten
*Krotoschin
*Peisern
*Schroda
*Gnesen
*Wangrowitz
*Powitz
*Brzesk
*Radziejow
*Kowal

Kalisch ("Departement der Kriegs- und Domainen-Kammer zu Kalisch") included the counties ("Kreise") of:

*Kalisch

*Adelnau

*Konin

*Ostreschow

*Wielun

*Lumtomiersk

*Warta

*Schadek

*Sieradz

*Petrikau

*Radomsk

*Czenstochau

Warschau ("Departement der Kriegs- und Domainen-Kammer zu Warschau") included the counties ("Kreise") of:
*Warschau
*Blonin
*Tschersk
*Rawa
*Sochaczew
*Gostin
*Orlow
*Lenczyca
*Zgierz
*Brzezin