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New East Prussia (German: Neuostpreußen; Polish: Prusy Nowowschodnie) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of Poland and included parts of Masovia and Podlachia. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territorial area of less than 55,000 km².
New East Prussia encompassed territory between East Prussia and the Vistula, Western Bug, and Neman rivers. Although Warsaw had been annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland, the city was added to South Prussia, which had been created in 1793. New East Prussia was subdivided into the Kammerdepartements Bialystok (Białystok) and Plozk (Płock)
German colonists invited to settle on the province's noble estates were known as Hauländer, while those who settled on royal crown lands were known as Kolonisten.
Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition and a Polish uprising, the territory of New East Prussia became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, a French client state, according to the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit. The Białystok district which was ceded to the Russian Empire.
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New East Prussia (Neuostpreussen) and the Departments of Plozk and Bialystok, 1801-1807.
In 1806, New East Prussia consisted of two departments (Kriegs- und Domänen-Kammern) divided into the following districts or counties (Kreise):
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