Prussian

 Originating in 1525 on the Baltic coast of Germany, Prussia would rise to military and political prominence throughout the early modern period, and under Chancellor Otto von Bismark’s leadership, would unify the German states in the 1870s. The adjective Prussian, in addition to referring to this state and its people, has also come to refer to the aggressive militarism and conservatism exhibited by the Junker nobility throughout Prussia’s existence.