Posen-West Prussia
The Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (German: Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen, Polish: Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska) was a province of the Free State of Prussia within the German Weimar Republic. The capital was Schneidemühl (present-day Piła). The province comprised the small western parts of the former Prussian territories of Posen and West Prussia, that remained with Germany after World War I according to the Treaty of Versailes.
The province comprised two spatially separated areas, stretching from the Prussian Province of Pomerania and the "Polish Corridor" in the north along the eastern border of the Province of Brandenburg to the Silesia Province in the south.
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