Associations to the word «Brandenburg»

Pictures for the word «Brandenburg»

Wiktionary

BRANDENBURG, proper noun. (geography) Brandenburg an der Havel, a German town.
BRANDENBURG, proper noun. (geography) Land Brandenburg, a state of modern Germany.
BRANDENBURG, proper noun. (geography) (historical) The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg, Provinz Brandenburg), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
BRANDENBURG, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

BRANDENBURG, noun. The territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701.

Wise words

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