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5 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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5 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. A bishopric was first.
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1 day ago · The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. Berlin, capital and chief urban centre of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany.
2 days ago · Over the next 50 years, Bavaria, Brandenburg-Prussia, Saxony and others increasingly pursued their own policies, while Sweden gained a permanent foothold in the Empire.
2 days ago · Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (* 15. Oktober 1795 in Berlin; † 2. Januar 1861 in Potsdam) war vom 7. Juni 1840 bis zu seinem Tod König von Preußen. Er entstammte der Dynastie der Hohenzollern. In seiner Regierungszeit sah er sich mit zwei elementaren Umbrüchen konfrontiert: der Industriellen Revolution und der bürgerlichen Forderung nach politischer Mitsprache.
2 days 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.
