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Following the abolition of Prussia after World War II, Brandenburg was established as a state by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany, and became a state of the German Democratic Republic in 1949. In 1952, the state was dissolved and broken up into multiple regional districts.
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Apr 5, 2024 · The state of Brandenburg was re-created primarily out of the former East German districts of Potsdam, Frankfurt, and Cottbus in the process of the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Subsequent efforts to merge the separate administrative entities of Berlin and Brandenburg into a single state have so far been unsuccessful.
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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Brandenburg, margravate, or mark, then an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the northeastern lowlands of Germany; it was the nucleus of the dynastic power on which the kingdom of Prussia was founded. After World War I it was a province of the Land (state) of Prussia in Germany.
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Dec 8, 2022 · With the unification of Germany in 1989, the German Democratic Republic was dissolved and made a part of the Federal Republic of Germany. The area east of the Oder and Neisse rivers still belongs to Poland. The rest of what was Brandenburg is now the German state of Brandenburg.
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Following the abolition of Prussia after World War II, Brandenburg was established as a state by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany, and became a state of the German Democratic Republic in 1949. In 1952, the state was dissolved and broken up into multiple regional districts.
State Profile. Flag of the German Federal State of Brandenburg. Official Name: Brandenburg. Abbreviation: BB. Time zone: Central European Time (CET); Central European Summer Time (CEST) (UTC+1/+2) Capital City: Potsdam (160,000) Other Cities: Brandenburg an der Havel, Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder) Geography:
