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Adalbert Goertz: FAQ-C:Brandenburg A2: The province was created in 1816 of the former Mark Brandenburg and included the Mittelmark,Ukermark,Priegnitz, most of Neumark, some areas of Schlesien, Sachsen (Niederlausitz) and of the grand duchy of Pose Brandenburg East of the Oder and Neisse rivers was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland in 1945. A3: In 1900 the province of Brandenburg had the following districts and Kreise (counties): * marks total or partial loss to Poland in 1945. Q4: What were the court districts in Brandenburg province before 1900? thorin.adnc.com /~lynnd/gfaqc.html   (1357 words)

Ancestry.com - Search Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records A province of the Prussian Empire, Brandenburg stretched from the Elbe River to beyond the Oder River and into modern Poland in the 1800s. The province of Brandenburg included 44 Kreise (counties). This database, newly updated, is a collection of government records regarding persons emigrating from the province in the 19th century. www.ancestry.netscape.com /search/db.aspx?dbid=4121   (257 words)

Ezion-Geber's Home Page - Preussen Gloria - Prussia, History of In 2001 the Social Democratic German Government proposed that the State of Brandenburg be renamed Prussia and declared that 2001 would be 'Prussia Year'. It therefore rightly became a matter of national priority to unite the two parts of the Brandenburg-Prussian State by reacquiring West Prussia. Today Prussia lies buried under the new federal German states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), the Saarland, and Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), and the original Hohenzeollern territory is now a district of Baden-Württemberg. www.nccg.org /ezion_geber/preussen1.html   (257 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear. The later history of Brandenburg is that of Prussia. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

Royal Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1618 the Duchy of Prussia was inherited by Johann Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg. The eastern part of Prussia remained under the rule of the Order and its successors, until 1660 under Polish suzerainty as a Polish fief, becoming the Duchy of Prussia in 1525 when the Order's Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg adopted Lutheranism and secularised his land as its hereditary ruler. Royal Prussia (Polish: Prusy Królewskie, German: Königliches Preussen) was a Polish province formed from the western part of the Lands of the Teutonic Order following the Thirteen Years War or "War of the Cities". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Prussia   (571 words)

Encyclopedia: East Prussia East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Lithuanian: Rytų PrÅ«sija; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya; Dutch: Oost-Pruisen; Spanish: Prusia Oriental;) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and of the German Empire, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of Prussia (1846- 1918). The population of the province in 1900 was 1,996,626 people, with a religious make up of 1,698,465 Protestants, 269,196 Roman Catholics, and 13,877 Jews. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/East-Prussia   (571 words)

Province of Prussia Definition / Province of Prussia Research The Province of Prussia was a province of PolandThe Republic of Poland, a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) to the north. During the Reformation endemic religious upheavals and wars occurred, and in 1525, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert of Brandenburg, a member of a cadet branch of the house of HohenzollernThe Hohenzollerns are a European royal family which came to rule Brandenburg, in 1415. Lying in the east of the country, in its current form it is one of the new states created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. www.elresearch.com /Province_of_Prussia   (571 words)

The Anatomy of the German Empire 1648-1918 Prussia cedes Ansbach and Bayreuth to Bavaria, East Frisia, Hildesheim, Goslar and Lingen to Hanover, the territories of the Third Polish Division to Russia; instead, Prussia obtains parts of Hither Pomerania from Denmark, the Rhine Province (formerly French), parts of Westfalia, almost half of Saxony (to form the Prussian province of Sachsen). Margraviates: Baden-Baden, B.-Durlach (these two reunited in 1771), B.-Hochberg (1535 to B.-Durlach), Brandenburg (including the Duchy of Prussia outside of the HRE), Br.-Kulmbach, Moravia. Bavaria obtains Ansbach, Bayreuth and the cities of Augsburg and Nuremberg. www.progenealogists.com /germany/articles/ganatomy.htm   (1165 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear. The March of Brandenburg, as Albert's lands were called, were colonized by Germans and became Christianized. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

Brandenburg-Prussia After Napoleon's final defeat in 1815 The Kingdom of Prussia became known as "Die Vereinigten Preussischen Staaten" (The United Prussian States) which now also included provinces like Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania and areas as far west as the Rhine province. Anna, daughter of Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia (r.1568-1618), married Elector Johann Sigismund of Brandenburg, who succeeded to the Province on his father-in-law's death in 1618. Though Brandenburg was far richer and more important than Prussia proper, it was subsumed into The Kingdom of Prussia in a change understood by all to be a shell game with titles. www.portaljuice.com /brandenburg_prussia.html   (571 words)

Brandenburg.html In 1701, his son crowned himself king in Prussia; Brandenburg was now just a province of the ascending Prussian state. The province was temporarily named the March Brandenburg, but, in 1952,it was split up in several regions in the course of an administrative reform by the GDR. Brandenburg systematically enlarged its territory and, by the way of inheritance in the early 17th century, acquired, among others, the region of the Duchy of Prussia. www.fortwaynemaennerchor.us /brandenburg.html   (571 words)

Pomerania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Pomerania continued as a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire until the death (1637) of Bogislav XIV, when the region was granted to the elector of Brandenburg. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) gave Hither Pomerania (Vorpommern)—i.e., the western part, with Stettin, Stralsund, and the island of Rügen—to Sweden, while Farther Pomerania (Hinterpommern)—i.e., the eastern part, with Stargard—went to the electorate of Brandenburg (after 1701, the kingdom of Prussia). In the rest of Swedish Pomerania, the kings of Sweden remained princes of the Holy Roman Empire until the dissolution of the empire in 1806. www.bartleby.com /65/po/Pomerani.html   (571 words)

Search Encyclopedia.com The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province... Maria I Maria I, 1734-1816, queen of Portugal (1777-1816), daughter of Joseph I. She was married (1760) to her uncle, who assumed joint rule with her as Peter III. Maria II Maria II (Maria da Glória), 1819-53, queen of Portugal (1834-53), daughter of Peter IV (Pedro I of Brazil). www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Maria+Eleonora+of+Brandenburg   (532 words)

Silesia of Saxony was incoporated into Silesia, while the northernmost part of Silesia, the enclave of Swiebodzin (Schwiebus) became part of the Province of Brandenburg (marked in red on the map of Brandenburg). German inhabitants of the province either escaped or were expelled from Silesia after 1945 and Poles from the formerly Polish regions in the East settled there. The map shows the territory of Silesia at the beginning of the 20th century. www.polishroots.org /genpoland/sil.htm   (532 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear. A 1996 referendum on whether to merge the two entities into a single state was approved by residents of Berlin but rejected by voters in Brandenburg. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

BRIEG - LoveToKnow Article on BRIEG In 1537 Frederick IL, duke of Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau, concluded with Joachim II., elector of Brandenburg, a, treaty according to which his duchy was to pass to the house of Brandenburg in the event of the extinction of his line. , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the left bank of the Oder, and on the Breslau and Beuthen railway, 27 m. From 1311 to 1675 Brieg was the capital of an independent line of dukes, a cadet branch of the Polish dukes of Lower Silesia, by one of whom the castle was built in 1341. www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRIEG.htm   (571 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear. A 1996 referendum on whether to merge the two entities into a single state was approved by residents of Berlin but rejected by voters in Brandenburg. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear. Among Frederick's early successors were Albert Achilles (reigned 1470–86), who introduced primogeniture as the law of inheritance of the Hohenzollern family, and Joachim II (reigned 1535–71), who accepted the Reformation in 1539. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). the electors of Brandenburg acquired (1614) the duchy of Cleves and other W German territories and (1618) the duchy of Prussia (roughly, the later East Prussia). Among Frederick's early successors were Albert Achilles (reigned 1470–86), who introduced primogeniture as the law of inheritance of the Hohenzollern family, and Joachim II (reigned 1535–71), who accepted the Reformation in 1539. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

AllRefer.com - Brandenburg, state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). the electors of Brandenburg acquired (1614) the duchy of Cleves and other W German territories and (1618) the duchy of Prussia (roughly, the later East Prussia). Among Frederick's early successors were Albert Achilles (reigned 1470–86), who introduced primogeniture as the law of inheritance of the Hohenzollern family, and Joachim II (reigned 1535–71), who accepted the Reformation in 1539. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrandenbSta.html   (571 words)

Kingdom of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia With the exception of Prussia proper, all of Brandenburg's lands were a part of the Holy Roman Empire, by this time under the all but hereditary nominal rule of the House of Habsburg. The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg had held the reversion to the Duchy of Pomerania since 1472. As a result of Prussia's defeat at Jena and Auerstädt, King Friedrich Wilhelm III lost all his lands west of the Elbe River ; the remainder of the Kingdom was occupied by French troops. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia   (571 words)

Brandenburg on Encyclopedia.com The state of Brandenburg consists of the former Prussian province of Brandenburg minus those parts of the province lying E of the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland (see Germany). The Spree Forest, in Lower Lusatia, is inhabited by Slavic-speaking Wends, remnants of the population that inhabited Brandenburg at the time of its acquisition (12th cent.) by Albert the Bear. A replica of the Brandenburg Gate on Roosevelt Island as part of the "New York is Berlin" art event by HA Schult. www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/brandenbs1ta.asp   (895 words)

Articles - Anhalt The eastern and larger portion of the duchy was enclosed by the Prussian government district of Potsdam (in the Prussian province of Brandenburg), and Magdeburg and Merseburg (belonging to the Prussian province of Saxony). During the 9th century the greater part of Anhalt was included in the duchy of Saxony, and in the 12th century it came under the rule of Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg. Esico's grandson, Otto the Rich, count of Ballenstedt, was the father of Albert the Bear, by whom Anhalt was united with the mark of Brandenburg. www.gaple.com /articles/Anhalt   (1503 words)

Station Information - Wroclaw It is the principal city of the Lower Silesia region and the administrative seat of the Lower Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously of Wroclaw Voivodship. Annexed by the kingdom of Prussia in the 1740s, Prussia and the city became part of the German Empire in 1871. In 1569 Silesia had made a contract with Brandenburg, that in the case that the last Silesian Piast rulers died out, the land would be united with Brandenburg. www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/w/wr/wroclaw.html   (700 words)

Prussia The Prussia n parts of the pre-war Brandenburg- Prussia n state were made parts of Poland and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference, when the Oder-Neisse line was established as the new border between Poland and Germany. The term is used most often today to refer to Brandenburg- Prussia. All remaining Prussia ns (110-170 thousand) who had not been forced into evacuation by the Nazis were also accused of collaboration with the Nazis. www.portaljuice.com /prussia.html   (700 words)

Past and Present Regions of Poland Originally the province was a Slavic settlement, and Opole, the capital of the region, was the seat of the dukes of Opole of the Piast dynasty (1163-1532). A province of inter-war (1919-1939) Germany separated from the contiguous German provinces by the 70 mile-wide Polish province of Pomorze. This gave the now King of Prussia room to maneuver for, unlike Brandenburg, Ducal Prussia was not a vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor and part of the Reich, the latter an assemblage of many small states. info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/regions.html   (700 words)

Brandenburg Germany Research List Archive -- BRGRL-011 - Johann Traugett Frederick HERMEL born 10 June 1812 at Lubben, Brandenburg, Germany (stone says Lippen?) It also states he was in the military, but the rest of the stone is worn out and can't read it. Frederike was from the Uckermark area in Brandenburg Province. I know Frederick was also from Brandenburg Province. feefhs.org /DE/BRG/BRGRL/BRGRL011.HTML   (3541 words)

Brandenburg.html After Prussia had lost against Napoleon's army in 1806, Brandenburg was still the heartland of a diminished Prussia, and in 1815, gained the status of a Prussian province. Commencing with the feudal tenure of the March of Brandenburg for the dynasty of Hohenzollern in 1419, a new era was initiated: This dynasty was to rule for the ensuing five centuries--as electors of Brandenburg, kings of Prussia, and emperors of Germany. Geographical data: Brandenburg, the largest of the new German federal states, borders Poland to the east and surrounds Berlin: The farmland, the Schorfheide and the Uckermark regions to the north are a contrast to the Flaming hills to the south and the lakes to the west. www.fortwaynemaennerchor.us /brandenburg.html   (1227 words)

Brandenburg - Simple English Wikipedia Until 1945 was Brandenburg with 38,278 km² and 3 million inhabitants the biggest Province in Prussia. Brandenburg is since 1990a state (Bundesland) in Germany. It was 1949-1952 a state in East Germany and became 1952 divided into three Bezirke (Potsdam, Frankfurt and Cottbus). simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brandenburg   (103 words)

Brandenburg In the 19th century, Brandenburg was a Lutheran and mostly German-speaking province. Mark Brandenburg (which means "Brandenburg borderland") was a German state at the borderland of the Polish duchies. The greater part of Brandenburg still remains German and is one of the states within the current Federal Republic of Germany. www.polishroots.org /genpoland/brand.htm   (294 words)

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