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The territory of an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
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brandenburg
Word definitions for brandenburg in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brandenburg \Bran"den*burg\, n. [So named after Brandenburg, a province and a town of Prussia.] A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2049 Housing Units (2000): 917 Land area (2000): 3.955522 sq. miles (10.244754 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.002428 sq. miles (0.006289 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.957950 sq. miles (10.251043 sq. km) FIPS code: 09226 Located within: Kentucky ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
region in northeastern Germany, traditionally said to be ultimately from Slavic, but perhaps German and meaning literally "burned fortress," or else from a Celtic proper name.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. n. 1 (context lang=en geography) Brandenburg an der Havel, a German town. 2 (context lang=en geography) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Brandenburg is one of Germany's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). Brandenburg may also refer to:
Usage examples of brandenburg.
Just across Pariser Platz, at the foot of the Brandenburg Gate, sat a tangle of television vans and satellite dishes.
Then the Brandenburg Gate bloomed like a monstrous stone flower and the screaming began--a thin, high shriek piercing the chaos.
Forgetting, if they had ever known, that the Brandenburg Gate had once been beautiful.
But the Brandenburg Gate lay straight down Ebertstrasse from her hotel in Potsdamer Platz, a brisk walk in the cold afternoon air.
Caroline stood in her jeans and sweater, a bright plaid blazer open to the raw wind, and snapped pictures from the edge of Strasse des 17 Juni, the broad boulevard running straight through the heart of the Tiergarten to the Brandenburg Gate.
The blast, then, had been strong enough to destroy the Brandenburg Gate while leaving much of the surrounding structures intact.
Berlin knows for a fact that 30 April did the Brandenburg, much less the Vice President, so I made it a fairly general query.
The image shifted to the Brandenburg Gate, where police guards in black and red and gold surrounded the bomb crater.
All the cops in the city, it seemed, were standing guard around the rubble of the Brandenburg Gate.
They have confessed to loading that van with a mix of fertilizer and gasoline and parking it 0 DID near the Brandenburg Gate.
American citizens died at the Brandenburg, and the Bureau is required to investigate crimes against Americans anywhere in the world.
Whoever had ordered the evidence removed from the Brandenburg Gate had not troubled with it further.
First the majestic Brandenburg, queen of the skies-- then the Navy dirigible San Diego -- and finally the great airship Ludendorff!
There was still no trace of the San Diego, and the great German airship, Brandenburg, which had left Frankfort-On-Main thirty-six hours before, had not been heard of since she had passed over the English Channel a few hours after she had left her German base.
German airship, Brandenburg, is also missing, as far as the German airship people are concerned.