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The Margraviate of Brandenburg (German: Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe. Brandenburg developed out of the Northern March founded in the territory of the Slavic Wends.
Brandenburg, margravate, or mark, then an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the northeastern lowlands of Germany; it was the nucleus of the dynastic power on which the kingdom of Prussia was founded. After World War I it was a province of the Land (state) of Prussia in Germany.
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Margraviate of Brandenburg (under Luxemburg rule) Margraviate of Brandenburg (1417–1440) Electorate of Brandenburg and Margraviate of Brandenburg-Brandenburg (1440–1618) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1440–1791) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1st creation) (1440–1457) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (2nd ...
The Margraviate of Brandenburg was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.
The earliest Germanic inhabitants were replaced by Slavic Wends, who in turn were overcome in the 12th century by Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg. It became one of the seven electorates of the Holy Roman Empire in 1356. Under the elector Frederick William (1640–88), Brandenburg-Prussia grew to be a leading power.
The Margraviate and the Duchy of Prussia joined hands in the year 1618 to form Brandenburg-Prussia. In 1701, the state was prominent as the Kingdom of Prussia. In the early 900s, Henry the Fowler and his successors occupied territory up to the Oder River.
In a legal document from the 3 rd of October of the same year, he called himself Margrave of Brandenburg for the first time. This was a decisive turn in the history of Germany. The Margraviate of Brandenburg grew and prospered until it became part of the newly created Duchy of Prussia under the House of Hohenzollern.
