Thread:IohannesIohannium/@comment-26201338-20160323170950/@comment-26201338-20160323172109

Teutonic Order:

The  Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem[2]  (official names:  Latin:  Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum ,  German:  Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus der Heiligen Maria in Jerusalem ), commonly the  Teutonic Order (today: German Order [ Deutscher Orden], also  Deutschherrenorden or Deutschritterorden), is a  Catholic religious order originally founded as a  military order in the 12th century in  Acre. Purely religious since 1929, it still confers limited honorary  knighthoods<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">[3]

<sup class="reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Their state:

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">The  State of the Teutonic Order<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> ( German<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">:  <span lang="de" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;" lang="de">Staat des Deutschen Ordens <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">;  Latin<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">:  <span lang="la" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;" lang="la">Civitas Ordinis Theutonici <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">), also called Deutschordensstaat<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> ( pronounced<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">  <span class="IPA" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈdɔʏtʃ ɔɐdənsˌʃtaːt] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">) or  Ordensstaat<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">[2] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> ( pronounced<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">  <span class="IPA" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈɔɐdənsˌʃtaːt] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">) in German, was a  crusader state<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> formed by the  Teutonic Knights<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> or Teutonic Order during the 13th century  Northern Crusades<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> along the  Baltic Sea<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. The state was based in  Prussia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> after the  Order's conquest<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> of the Pagan  Old Prussians<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> which began in 1230, but also expanded to include the historic regions of  Courland<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Gotland<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Livonia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Neumark<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Pomerelia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and  Samogitia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. Its territory was in the modern countries of Estonia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Latvia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Lithuania<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">,  Poland<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, and  Russia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">. Most of the territory was conquered by  military orders<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, after which  German colonization<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> occurred to varying effect.