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The Prussian Kingdom was founded on January 18th, 1701, when the Elector Frederick III had himself crowned Frederick I at Konigsberg. Frederick I. Prussia, which was to become a byword for German militarism and authoritarianism, began its history outside Germany altogether. The people called Preussen in German, who inhabited the land on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic, were Slavs, related to the Lithuanians and Latvians.
The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians. In the 13th century, the Teutonic Knightsâan organized Catholic medieval military order of German crusadersâconquered the lands inhabited by them. In 1308, the Teutonic Knights conquered the region of Pomerelia with GdaÅsk (Danzig).