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US
/ˈbɹændənbɝɡ/
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NOUN
- the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
How To Use Brandenburg In A Sentence
- The margravate took its name from the town of Brandenburg, west of Berlin.
- The emigrant Schlaberg was a ninth generation descendant of Sigismund Brandenburg, who became Archbishop of Magdeburg at the age of 16 in 1554, and though an unmarried Catholic prelate, fathered a son in 1560 with a woman named Schlaberg, who took his mother's name. Al Eisele: An American's Unique Link to German History
- As an entr'acte, if you will, to our series about Catholic Bamberg - which will definitely be continued - today we visit another treasure of Catholic Germany closer to my home Berlin, which I visited last Sunday: the former Cistercian Abbey of Neuzelle ( "New Cell") in the state of Brandenburg. Neuzelle Abbey
- In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy.
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- Ruby-colored glass based on this gold-tin solution is closely associated with Johannes Kunckel, glassmaker and alchemist to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- In 1682, the estates of East Frisia gave Brandenburg-Prussia help by allowing their ships to use her quays in Emden - a large harbour on the North Sea.
- Frederick William inherited a state where the previous ruler had been held in very low regard by the real power base in Brandenburg-Prussia - the Junkers.
- When I went through the Brandenburg Gate, I had to push through a countercurrent of girls parading their lovely selves through a temporary narrow passage of plywood.
- Bao Van Brandenburg started her career in jewellery design in Geneva, where she opened her first boutique in 1978.