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6 days ago · Brandenburg, city, Brandenburg Land (state), eastern Germany. The city lies on both banks of the Havel River , west of Berlin . It was founded as Branibor (Brennabor, or Brennaburg) by the West Slavic Havelli tribe and was captured by the German king Henry I the Fowler in 928.
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6 days ago · The state of Brandenburg-Prussia became commonly known as "Prussia", although most of its territory, in Brandenburg, Pomerania, and western Germany, lay outside Prussia proper. The Prussian state grew in splendour during the reign of Frederick I, who sponsored the arts at the expense of the treasury.
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2 days ago · With the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the Brandenburg Gate found itself stranded in the heavily guarded no-man‘s land between East and West. The gate‘s arches were bricked up and the Pariser Platz became an eerily desolate border zone. For the next 28 years, the monument stood as a poignant symbol of Germany‘s division [13].
May 2, 2024 · These were only small minorities, however, and the vast majority celebrated unification with great joy. The German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic as five additional Länder, and the two parts of divided Berlin became one Land. (The five new Länder were Brandenburg, Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and ...
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1 day ago · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.
May 14, 2024 · East Germany originally consisted of five states (i.e., Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia). In 1952, these states were abolished, and the East was divided into 14 administrative districts called Bezirke.
1 day ago · The following states, after merging with other German states, were formed after the war, then abolished in 1952 and finally recreated following the reunification of Germany in 1990: Brandenburg, from the remainder of the Province of Brandenburg. Saxony-Anhalt, from the bulk of the Province of Saxony.
