Margraviate of Brandenburg
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The Margraviate of Brandenburg was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806. Though initially an underdeveloped and economically modest territory, Brandenburg held electoral sta
Siegesallee statue of Albert the Bear, flanked by Bishop Wigger of Brandenburg and Bishop Otto of Bamberg
The Holy Roman Empire from 1273 to 1378: Habsburg lands Luxembourg lands Wittelsbach lands
Religion in Central Europe, c. 1618. Electoral Brandenburg is striped, indicating that its ruler was a Calvinist, while most of his subjects remained Lutheran. Lutherans Calvinists Zwinglians Hussites/Bohemian Brethren Roman Catholics Greek Orthodox Muslims
Museum Senftenberg (Senftenberg Castle)
Province of Brandenburg
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The Province of Brandenburg was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1947. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprising the bulk of the historic Margravia
Margraviate of Brandenburg
…The Margraviate of Brandenburg ended with the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. It was replaced after the Napoleonic Wars with the Prussian Province of Brandenburg in 1815. The Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia was the primary driving force behind the unification of Germany. The Prussian-dominated North German…
Female prisoners at Ravensbrück concentration camp, 1939