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Definition of Brandenburg

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

Definition of Brandenburg

1. 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.

Definition of Brandenburg

1. Proper noun. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation. ¹

2. Proper noun. A town in Germany. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brandenburg

Literary usage of Brandenburg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"Thus the future Brandenburg-Prussian State was in its beginnings indisputably an offshoot of the Saxon duchy; but the seventeenth century was hardly ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Count Brandenburg, the sou of King Frederick William II and Countess Donhoff, and a patriotic Prussian and a Hohenzollern every inch of him (he was a ..."

3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Until this time the elector of Brandenburg was only one of several great ... The early history of Brandenburg has received incidental treatment in the ..."

4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"No end of troubles to Sigismund, and to Brandenburg through him, ... He pawned Brandenburg to Cousin Jobst of Mahren; got ' 20000 Bohemian gulden,' —I guess ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"His chief object was the aggrandizement of Brandenburg to the eastward of the Elbe, but in the Peace of Westphalia he had been compensated by new ..."

6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"No end of troubles to Sigismund, and to Brandenburg through him, ... He pawned Brandenburg to Cousin Jobst of Mahren; got ' 20000 Bohemian gulden,1 —I guess ..."

7. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"This is the third Brandenburg pawning: let us hope there may bo a fourth and last. Brandenburg in the hands of the Pawnbrokers; Rupert of the Pfalz is ..."

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