The Brandenburg Gate is an iconic landmark of Berlin and Germany.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

Approximately half-way from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern, a circular traffic island on which the Siegessäule ( Victory Column ) is situated.

Brandenburg (;, Lower Sorbian: Bramborska ; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska ) is a city in one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany.

The Day of German Unity is at the same time an anniversary for the re-founding of the five states Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringen.

* 1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.

It is now the second strongest party in three states, all of them in the former GDR, ( Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia ) and the third strongest in four others, all but Saarland in the former GDR, ( Saarland, Berlin, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ).

Potsdamer Platz (, literally Potsdam Square ) is an important public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about one kilometre south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag ( German Parliament Building ), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.

" The Star-Spangled Banner " is performed or sung in front of the Brandenburg Gate and at mass gatherings in Edinburgh, Paris, and Ottawa.

The Free State of Saxony ( ; ) is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

With over 5 million inhabitants, the greater Stuttgart Metropolitan Region is the fourth-biggest in Germany after the Rhine-Ruhr area, Berlin / Brandenburg and Frankfurt / Rhine-Main.

A notable exception is the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 composed by J. S. Bach, scored for 2 violas, cello, 2 violas da gamba, and continuo, in which the two violas were placed in the primary melodic role.

* August 6 – The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is finished.

* The Polish land of Lebus is incorporated into the German state of Brandenburg, marking the start of Brandenburg's expansion into previously Polish areas ( Neumark ).

The Berlin Brandenburg Airport is publicly financed by the states of Berlin and Brandenburg and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.

Sixth-largest in area but only fourteenth in overall population among Germany's sixteen Bundesländer, it is bounded to the north by the Baltic Sea, to the west by Schleswig-Holstein, to the southwest by Lower Saxony, to the south by Brandenburg, and to the east by the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.

* January 17 – Treaty of Königsberg is signed, establishing alliance between Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.

* December 20 – Treaty of Labiau is signed between Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.

* The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.

* The city of Neuruppin is founded in Brandenburg, Germany.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.

He held both offices until his death in 1566, and his career in Brandenburg was one of great activity and influence.

From the Panoramapunkt one can see such landmarks as the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Federal Chancellery, Bellevue Palace, Cathedral, Television Tower, Gendarmes Market, Holocaust Memorial and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

The Empire also contained several regional powers, such as the Duchy of Bavaria, the Electorate of Saxony, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Electorate of the Palatinate, Landgraviate of Hesse, the Archbishopric of Trier and the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg ( containing from 500, 000 to one million inhabitants ).

After treating in vain for a marriage between one of his sons and Mary, daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Albert handed over the government of Brandenburg to his eldest son John, and returned to his Franconian possessions.

At the time, Jobst of Moravia ruled Brandenburg and thus was one of the prince-electors who had the right to vote for the new emperor.

Ossietzky himself explained, perhaps half in jest, that it derived from an ancestor's service in a Polish lancer cavalry regiment ; the Elector of Brandenburg was unable to pay his two regiments of lancers at one point due to an empty war chest so he instead conferred nobility upon the entirety of the two regiments.

De facto Brandenburg and Ducal Prussia were more and more ruled as one, and colloquially referred to as Brandenburg-Prussia.

The Brandenburg Gate () is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as a neoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Berlin and Germany.

The Berlin Excise Wall with its 18 gates The Brandenburg Gate was not part of the old fortifications but one of 18 gates within the Berlin Customs Wall (), erected in the 1730s, including the old fortified city and many of its then suburbs.

A concentration camp, one of the first in Germany, was located on Neuendorfer Straße in Brandenburg Old Town.

Brandenburg an der Havel was one of the very first locations in the Third Reich where the Nazis experimented with killing their victims by gas.

The existence of this factory was one of the reasons Brandenburg was heavily bombed in later stages of the war ; by 1945 the city was 70 percent destroyed.

A Fieseler Fi 156 Storch similar to the one Reitsch landed in the Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate during the Battle of Berlin

Convicted in the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Brandenburg was fined $ 1, 000 and sentenced to one to ten years in prison.

In point of fact, Brandenburg completely did away with Dennis central holding and held that " mere advocacy " of any doctrine, including one that assumed the necessity of violence or law violation, was per se protected speech.

Dart's distinguished students included the composer Michael Nyman, conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and conductor / musicologist Christopher Hogwood. He made one of the first historically informed recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos with the Philomusica of London.

The 101st Company ( Spanische-Freiwilligen Kompanie der SS 101, " Spanish Volunteer Company of the SS Number 121 ") of 140 men, made up of four rifle platoons and one staff platoon, was attached to 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien and fought in Pomerania and Brandenburg as Soviet troops invaded eastern Germany.

The 101st company Spanische-Freiwilligen Kompanie der SS 101 of 140 men, made up of four rifle platoons and one staff platoon, was attached to 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien and fought in Pomerania and Brandenburg province.

With the death of the Swedish king, one of the major obstacles to peace was gone and the Treaty of Oliva was signed with the allies Poland-Lithuania, Habsburg and Brandenburg on 23 April.

By 1272 Bolesław entered in an alliance with Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania-Gdańsk ; one year later ( in 1273 ), he renewed his homage to Brandenburg and promised his help to the Margraviate against all his enemies, except the Duke of Greater Poland.