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Potsdam

town in Germany, first recorded 993 as Poztupimi; the name is Slavic, the first element is po "by near," the second element evidently was influenced by Dutch names in -dam. The Potsdam Conference of the victorious Allies in World War II was held July 17-Aug. 2, 1945, to decide the fate of Germany.

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Potsdam, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 9425
Housing Units (2000): 2705
Land area (2000): 4.387443 sq. miles (11.363424 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.461082 sq. miles (1.194197 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.848525 sq. miles (12.557621 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59564
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 44.670873 N, 74.984281 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13676
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Potsdam, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 203
Housing Units (2000): 68
Land area (2000): 0.459116 sq. miles (1.189104 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.459116 sq. miles (1.189104 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64430
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.963366 N, 84.416662 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Potsdam

Potsdam , is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Brandenburg. It directly borders the German capital Berlin and is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin's city center.

Potsdam was a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser, until 1918. Its planning embodied ideas of The Age of Enlightenment: through a careful balance of architecture and landscape Potsdam was intended as "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which reminded its residents of their relationship with Nature and Reason. Around the city there are a series of interconnected lakes and cultural landmarks, in particular the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany. The Potsdam Conference, the major post- World War II conference between the victorious Allies, was held at another palace in the area, the Cecilienhof.

Babelsberg, in the south-eastern part of Potsdam, was a major film production studio before the war and has enjoyed success as a major center of European film production since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Filmstudio Babelsberg is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world.

Potsdam developed into a centre of science in Germany in the 19th century. Today, there are three public colleges, the University of Potsdam and more than 30 research institutes in the city.

Potsdam (disambiguation)

Potsdam is a city in Brandenburg

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Usage examples of "potsdam".

Around the time of the proceedings, both parts of the now united Germany were experiencing a series of right-wing extremist criminal acts, among them the attempted killing of a Hungarian in Potsdam with baseball bats and the beating of a retiree in Bochum that led to his death.

Hitler would open the new Reichstag, which he was about to destroy, in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, the great shrine of Prussianism, which aroused in so many Germans memories of imperial glories and grandeur, for here lay buried the bones of Frederick the Great, here the Hohenzollern kings had worshiped, here Hindenburg had first come in 1866 on a pilgrimage when he returned as a young Guards officer from the Austro-Prussian War, a war which had given Germany its first unification.

From Magdeburg I went straight to Berlin, without caring to stop at Potsdam, as the king was not there.

Amongst other notable things I saw at Potsdam was the sight of the king commanding the first battalion of his grenadiers, all picked men, the flower of the Prussian army.

When I reached Potsdam I went to see the parade at which Frederick was nearly always to be found.

That fall, the United States urged Nationalist China, put temporarily in charge of the northern part of Indochina by the Potsdam Conference, to turn it over to the French, despite the obvious desire of the Vietnamese for independence.

Two days later the crown prince arrived from Potsdam on a visit to his future bride, the daughter of the reigning duke, whom he married the year after.

Baron Bodisson, a Venetian who wanted to sell the king a picture by Andrea del Sarto, asked me to come with him to Potsdam and the desire of seeing the monarch once again made me accept the invitation.

Even while the request was in Potsdam, asking for Russian help in establishing the dossier on Riga, the Americans asked for Roschmarm to be transferred to Munich on a temporary basis, to give evidence at Dachau, where the Americans were putting on trial other SS men who had been active in the complex of camps around Riga.