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First posted on October 28th 2007, last revised on March 17th 2008
General Observations

The Frankish Period : The Saxons . The Wends
The Viking Era : The Wends
The High Middle Ages : The Slavic East

History of the Margraviate / Electorate of Brandenburg until 1618
Brandenburg 1415-1517
Brandenburg 1517-1618
Brandenburg 1618-1648

For the history since 1648, see Prussia

In 1618 the quick expansion of the Brandenburg State began, known under the name of Prussia since 1701. The files below will follow the history of that state; click here for files on the history of the territory of Brandenburg since 1618, for files on the history of East Prussia, West Prussia, Further Pomerania/Pomerania, Silesia, Kleve-Mark (later w. Geldern, Moers), Minden-Ravensberg, Lingen-Tecklenburg, East Frisia

Historical Atlas, Prussia Page
List of Wars, Brandenburg 1415-1618
List of Wars, Brandenburg-Prussia 1618-1871


Students' Paper : Woo, Na Young : A Historical Summary of Berlin's Architectural Controversy (2007)







EXTERNAL
FILES 		Virtual Library : History : German History, from Univ. Erlangen; Brandenburg-Preussen, from Univ. Rostock
Country Studies : Germany
Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher, search engine for German Antiquarian booksellers' stocks
Preussen Web, in German; Preussen-Chronik, in German
Die Geschichte von Potsdam (The History of Potsdam), from Cosmopolis, in German
Geschichte Berlins, from Chronik Berlin, in German
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahresberichte für Deutsche Geschichte, 1925-1938, in German
DOCUMENTS Rulers of Prussia, from World Statesmen by Ben Cahoon
Titles of European Rulers : Brandenburg / Prussia
Flags, from FOTW
Repositories of Primary Sources : Europe : Germany, from Univ. of Idaho; scroll further down. Mostly Archive Webpages
Documents on German History for the preparation of history class, from psm-data (in German and/or English)
German legal documents (laws, constitutions) 1871-today, from Documentarchiv, in German only
Primary Documents to the History of Germany from Eurodocs
Documents in German History : Texts and Translations, from Univ. of Newcastle, exclusively on the 18th century, mostly in German and English
Historische Quellen, posted by the Louise Schroeder Gymnasium München
Prussian state finance, 1688-1806, from ESFDB
Verfassungen Preussens (Constitutions of Prussia), from Verfassungen.de, in German
J. Chr. Nelkenbrecher, Allgemeines Taschenbuch der Münz-, Maass- und Gewichtskunde für Banquiers und Kaufleute (General Manual on Coinage, Measurement and Weights, for Bankers and Merchants) Berlin 1832, in German, entries Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder, posted by DTBSWS
J. Chr. Nelckenbrecher, Taschenbuch eines Banquiers und Kaufmanns enthaltend eine Erklärung aller ein- und ausländischen Münzen ..., Berlin : Wever 1769, in German, entries Berlin, Frankfurt an der Oder, posted by DTBSWS
REFERENCE Gutenberg Library Online, keyword Prussia
Eleanor L. Turk, The History of Germany, London : Greenwood 1999, 231 pp.
Mary Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany, Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press 1991, 263 pp.
Leopold von Ranke, Preussische Geschichte (1878) Leipzig : Hoffmann und Campe, n.d., in German [G]
Preussen, Versuch einer Bilanz, Exhibition Catalogue, Hamburg : RoRoRo 1981, 5 volumes, in German [G]
Hans-Joachim Schoeps, Preussen, Geschichte eines Staates, Berlin : Propyläen 1966, in German [G]
Philip C. Dwyer, Modern Prussian History 1830-1947, Harlow : Pearson Education 2001
Institut für Geschichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, ed., Deutsche Geschichte in Daten, Berlin (Ost) : Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1967 [G]
Article : Prussia, in : International Year Book 1898 pp.643-644 [G]