| Province of New East Prussia Provinz Neuostpreußen (German) | |||||||||||||||
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| Province ofKingdom of Prussia | |||||||||||||||
| 1795–1807 | |||||||||||||||
 New East Prussia in 1806 | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Białystok[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
• 1806 | 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1806 | 914,610 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| 24 October 1795 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 July 1807 | |||||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Bialystok Plozk | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland Lithuania Belarus¹ | ||||||||||||||
| ¹Sopoćkinie area | |||||||||||||||
New East Prussia (German:Neuostpreußen;Polish:Prusy Nowowschodnie;Lithuanian:Naujieji Rytprūsiai) was aprovince of theKingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in theThird Partition of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and included parts ofMasovia,Podlaskie,Trakai voivodeship andŽemaitija. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territory of less than 55,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi), mainlyPoles,Lithuanians,Jews andBelarusians.
New East Prussia encompassed territory betweenEast Prussia and theVistula,Bug, andNeman rivers.
FollowingNapoleon Bonaparte's victory in theWar of the Fourth Coalition and theGreater Poland Uprising of 1806 the Province of New East Prussia was ceded according to the 1807Treaties of Tilsit:
New East Prussia was divided into theKammerdepartements ofBialystok andPłock which were divided into the followingKreise (districts):
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