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Is it accurate to say that Prussia and the ethnic group known as Prussians no longer exists?
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Good question!
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I'm still claiming Prussian ethnicity and the von Boeckermann's settled in South Australia 150 years ago
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Actually... make that over 150 years ago. My ancestors were refugees of the Prussian persecution of Lutherans.Comment
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So I'm only of criminal stock on one side of my family. The other side were heretics
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Prussian ethnicity died out in the middle ages (wiped out by the Teutonic Order).
If we're talking "Prussian Germans" as I would call them, well their culture and accent are lost now aren't they?
Dracon, that makes you an ethnic Caucasian. Now, as for anthropological heritage, that's a different question.
Both old Prussians and new Prussians, it's all dead now.Comment
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Yeah, and those early Prussians were Baltic (Slavonic?) people called "Pruzzen" in German.
Prussia is more "living memory" now, the last regional state in Germany called Prussia was abolished after WWII. The region of East-Prussia belongs to Poland now.
Let's rename Brandenburg to Prussia to annoy those Bavarians.
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"Pruzzen", does that mean that etymology doesn't contain the word "Russian"?Comment
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No it does not. Prussians were as Russian as Lithuanians are/were (meaning, NOT russian).Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
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I didn't mean the origin of the people, but the word. Russians aren't named for themselves either, "Rus" was the name of some Viking tribe or chieftain that traveled the big rivers and settled in Ukraine.Comment
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Here it is:
Prussian
1554, from Prussia, from M.L. Borussi, Prusi, Latinized forms of the native name of the Lithuanian people who lived there before being conquered 12c. and exterminated by German crusaders who replaced them. Perhaps from Slavic *Po-Rus "(The Land) Near the Rusi" (Russians).Comment
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No such thing as Caucasians as an race, unless you are talking about people who live in the Caucasian mountains.Dracon, that makes you an ethnic Caucasian.
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Hehe... wasn't being serious. I'm just a pasty faced white fella living in a place that was never meant for pasty faced white fellas to live.Comment
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In that case ethnic Australian. NOT ethnic German unless he lives in an Amish settlement
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Weren't the Prussians/Lithuanians the last ethnicity in Europe to become Christians (1300's, IIRC)?Comment
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