Royal Prussia (Polish: Prusy Królewskie; German: Königlich-Preußen or Preußen Königlichen Anteils) or Polish Prussia (Polish: Prusy Polskie; German: Polnisch-Preußen) was the denotation of those former districts of the State of the Teutonic Order including Pomerelia (Gdańsk Pomerania) with Danzig Gdańsk, Chełmno Land (Kulmerland) with Michałowo Land and Toruń, the mouth of the Vistula with Elbląg and Marienburg (Malbork), and the Bishopric of Warmia (Ermland) with Allenstein (Olsztyn), which after the 1466 Second Peace of Thorn were ceded to the Kingdom of Poland. Until the 1569 Union of Lublin the region enjoyed a substantial autonomy. After 1569 it came under direct administration of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Administratively Royal Prussia was part of the Greater Poland Province together with Greater Poland proper, Masovia, and Łęczyca Voivodship and Sieradz Voivodship, with the Province capital being Poznań.
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