Editing Prussian Confederation (section)

==Participating towns==
{{Location map+|Poland|width=410|float=right|relief=1|caption=Location of founding towns (red), towns that joined in 1440 (orange) and towns that joined in 1441–44 (yellow) on the modern map of Poland
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{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.433|long=20.033|link=Dąbrówno|mark=Yellow dddd00 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.233|long=20.183|link=Działdowo|mark=Yellow dddd00 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.358|long=20.425|link=Nidzica|mark=Yellow dddd00 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.648|long=20.7908|link=Pasym|mark=Yellow dddd00 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.65|long=17.367|link=Człuchów|mark=Yellow dddd00 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.433|long=20.833|link=Domnovo|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.433|long=21.044|link=Pravdinsk|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.5|long=20.433|link=Slavskoye, Russia|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.361|long=21.312|link=Zheleznodorozhny, Kaliningrad Oblast|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.833|long=20.683|link=Barczewo|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.25|long=20.8|link=Bartoszyce|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.7|long=17.55|link=Chojnice|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.9875|long=20.3958|link=Dobre Miasto|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.35|long=19.683|link=Frombork|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.836|long=18.8236|link=Gniew|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.6117|long=18.808|link=Hel, Poland|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.967|long=20.733|link=Jeziorany|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.083|long=21.383|link=Kętrzyn|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.7358|long=18.9308|link=Kwidzyn|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.55|long=17.75|link=Lębork|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.117|long=20.583|link=Lidzbark Warmiński|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.761|long=17.557|link=Łeba|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.033|long=19.033|link=Malbork|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.649|long=18.726|link=Nowe|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.778|long=20.479|link=Olsztyn|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.05|long=19.667|link=Pasłęk|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.7|long=18.4|link=Puck, Poland|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.0514|long=21.1458|link=Reszel|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.268|long=21.00|link=Sępopol|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.9217|long=19.0336|link=Sztum|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.320|long=19.527|link=Tolkmicko|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.187|long=19.729|link=Młynary|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.0875|long=18.797|link=Tczew|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.967|long=18.533|link=Starogard Gdański|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.6|long=17.85|link=Tuchola|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.917|long=19.933|link=Morąg|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54|long=20.067|link=Miłakowo|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.217|long=20.117|link=Pieniężno|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.1128|long=20.1317|link=Orneta|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.067|long=20.09|link=Bisztynek|mark=Orange ff8040 pog.svg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.4925|long=21.192|link=Druzhba, Pravdinsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.383|long=19.833|link=Braniewo}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.2597|long=19.396|link=Brodnica}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.349|long=18.423|link=Chełmno}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.45|long=20.283|link=Kornevo, Kaliningrad Oblast}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.167|long=19.4|link=Elbląg}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.3475|long=18.645|link=Gdańsk}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.286|long=20.4917|link=Górowo Iławeckie}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.4875|long=18.755|link=Grudziądz}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.700|long=20.453|link=Kaliningrad}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.5|long=19.75|link=Lubawa}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.4256|long=19.5878|link=Nowe Miasto Lubawskie}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.3856|long=18.936|link=Radzyń Chełmiński}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.4639|long=19.941|link=Święta Siekierka}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=53.022|long=18.611|link=Toruń}}
{{Location map~|Poland|lat=54.617|long=21.217|link=Welawa}}
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Towns which founded the Prussian Confederation on 14 March 1440:<ref name="Leba">''Leba im Preußischen Bund'', {{cite web |url=http://lawrenz.homepage.t-online.de/s11-bilder/preubund.htm |title=Lawrenz - Preußischer Bund |access-date=2007-10-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205055509/http://lawrenz.homepage.t-online.de/s11-bilder/preubund.htm |archive-date=2008-02-05 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kętrzyński|first=Wojciech|author-link=Wojciech Kętrzyński|year=1882|title=O ludności polskiej w Prusiech niegdyś krzyżackich|language=pl|location=Lwów|publisher=[[Ossolineum|Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich]]|page=608}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
! Name
|-
| Thorn ([[Toruń]]) including "New Town"
|-
| Culm ([[Chełmno]])
|-
| Elbing ([[Elbląg]]) including "New Town"
|-
| Danzig ([[Gdańsk]])
|-
| Braunsberg ([[Braniewo]])
|-
|[[Kaliningrad|Königsberg]] (Królewiec), including [[Kneiphof]] (Knipawa) and "Old Town"
|-
| Graudenz ([[Grudziądz]])
|-
| Strasburg ([[Brodnica]])
|-
| Neumark ([[Nowe Miasto Lubawskie]])
|-
| Löbau ([[Lubawa]])
|-
| Rehden ([[Radzyń Chełmiński]])
|-
| Wehlau (Welawa, now [[Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast|Znamensk]])
|-
| Allenburg (Alembork, now [[Druzhba, Pravdinsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast|Druzhba]])
|-
| Zinten (Cynty, now [[Kornevo, Kaliningrad Oblast|Kornevo]])
|-
| Heiligenbeil (Święta Siekierka, now [[Mamonovo]])
|-
| Landsberg ([[Górowo Iławeckie]])
|}

Towns which joined the Prussian Confederation in 1440:
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
! Name
! Date of accession
|-
| [[Starogard Gdański|Starogard]]
| 31 March 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVII}}
|-
| [[Morąg]]
|Rowspan=13|3 April 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVII}}
|-
| [[Pasłęk]]
|-
| [[Miłakowo]]
|-
| [[Tolkmicko]]
|-
| [[Młynary]]
|-
| [[Tczew]]
|-
| [[Gniew]]
|-
| ''[[Old Town (Gdańsk)|Old Town]]'' of Gdańsk
|-
|[[Nowe]]
|-
|[[Lębork]]
|-
| [[Łeba]]
|-
| [[Hel, Poland|Hel]]
|-
| [[Puck, Poland|Puck]]
|-
| [[Kwidzyn]]
| 17 April 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVII}}
|-
| [[Chojnice]]
| 1 May 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVII}}
|-
| [[Malbork]]
|Rowspan=15|5 May 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVII}}
|-
| [[Bartoszyce]]
|-
| [[Sępopol]]
|-
| [[Kętrzyn|Rastembork]] (Kętrzyn)
|-
| Friedland (Frydląd, now [[Pravdinsk]])
|-
| [[Orneta]]
|-
| [[Lidzbark Warmiński]]
|-
| [[Reszel]]
|-
| [[Dobre Miasto]]
|-
| [[Barczewo|Wartembork]] (Barczewo)
|-
| [[Jeziorany]]
|-
| [[Bisztynek]]
|-
| [[Olsztyn]]
|-
| [[Frombork]]
|-
| [[Pieniężno|Melzak]] (Pieniężno)
|-
| [[Tuchola]]
| 6 May 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVII}}
|-
| Kreuzburg (Krzyżbork, now [[Slavskoye, Russia|Slavskoye]])
|Rowspan=2|30 May 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVIII}}
|-
| Domnau (Domnowo, now [[Domnovo]])
|-
| [[Sztum]]
| 21 June 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVIII}}
|-
| Gerdauen (Gierdawy, now [[Zheleznodorozhny, Kaliningrad Oblast|Zheleznodorozhny]])
| 18 October 1440{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVIII}}
|}

Further towns joined in the following years, including [[Człuchów]], [[Pasym]], [[Nidzica]], [[Działdowo]], [[Dąbrówno]], [[Olsztynek]], [[Prabuty]], [[Chełmża]].{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=XXXVIII}}<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I|year=1880|language=pl|location=Warszawa|pages=569, 862}}</ref>

Further nobles joined following the outbreak of the Thirteen Years' War, and the towns of [[Dzierzgoń]], Łuczany (now [[Giżycko]]) and [[Nowy Staw]] also sided with Poland in the war,<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom II|year=1881|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=281}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom V|year=1884|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=113}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VII|year=1886|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=161}}</ref> and several more also recognized Polish rule and pledged allegiance to Poland, including [[Czarne]], [[Debrzno]], [[Golub-Dobrzyń|Golub]], [[Kowalewo Pomorskie|Kowalewo]], [[Lidzbark]], [[Łasin]], [[Wąbrzeźno]].{{sfn|Górski|1949|p=76}}<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I|year=1880|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=743}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom II|page=417}}</ref>