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Brandenburg
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English
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Alternative forms
en Brandenburgh obsolete
Etymology
From en de Brandenburg.
city in Kentucky Named after Solomon Brandenburg, a land owner.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɹændənbɜːɡ/ RP
en /ˈbɹændənbɚɡ/ /ˈbɹændɪnbɚɡ/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Brandenburg.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en A <<state>> in the northeast of <<c/Germany>>.
Brandenburg an der Havel, a German town.
en historical The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg, Provinz Brandenburg), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
en 1759 George Sale; et al The Modern Part of an Universal History XXIX History of the German Empire http://books.google.com/books?id=dFtjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2 2 Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
en home rule city/county seat co/Meade County s/Kentucky c/USA.
Derived terms
en Brandenburger
en Brandenburgian
en Brandenburgish
Translations
state in northeast Germany
Afrikaans: af Brandenburg
Albanian: sq Brandenburgu
Arabic: ar براندنبورغ brandinburg
Armenian: hy Բրանդենբուրգ
Azerbaijani: az Brandenburq
Bulgarian: bg Бра́нденбург m
Catalan: ca Brandenburg
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 勃蘭登堡, cmn 布蘭登堡, cmn 勃蘭登堡州 Bólándēngbǎo Zhōu
Corsican: co Brandeburgu m
Czech: cs Braniborsko n
Danish: da Brandenburg c
Dutch: nl Brandenburg n
Esperanto: eo Brandenburgio
Estonian: et Brandenburg
Finnish: fi Brandenburg
French: fr Brandebourg m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Brandenburch n
Galician: gl Brandeburgo m
Georgian: ka ბრანდენბურგი
German: de Brandenburg, de Land Brandenburg n
Bavarian: bar Brandnburg
East Central German: gmw-ecg Brandnborch, gmw-ecg Brandnborg, gmw-ecg Brandnburch, gmw-ecg Brandnburg
Rhine Franconian: gmw-rfr Brandebursch Palatine
Greek: el Βρανδεμβούργο n
Hebrew: he ברנדנבורג m brándenburg
Hindi: hi ब्रांडेनबर्ग m
Hungarian: hu Brandenburg
Icelandic: is Brandenborg n
Italian: it Brandeburgo m
Japanese: ja ブランデンブルク州 Burandenburuku-shū
Kashubian: csb Brandenbùrgiô
Korean: ko 브란덴부르크주
Latin: la Brandenburgum n
Latvian: lv Brandenburga
Lithuanian: lt Brandenburgas
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Brannenborg n
Macedonian: mk Бранденбург m
Mongolian: mn Бранденбург
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Brandenburg m
Nynorsk: nn Brandenburg m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira بِرانْدِنْبورْگ
Polabian: pox Branibor
Polish: pl Brandenburgia f
Portuguese: pt Brandenburgo m
Romanian: ro Brandenburg m
Russian: ru Бра́нденбург m, ru Бранденбу́рг m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Бранденбург m
Latin: sh Brandenburg m
Silesian: szl Brandymburgijo
Slovak: sk Brandenbursko n, sk Braniborsko
Slovene: sl Brandenburg m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Bramborska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Braniborska f
Spanish: es Brandeburgo m
Swedish: sv Brandenburg c
Turkish: tr Brandenburg
Ukrainian: uk Бра́нденбу́рг m
Vietnamese: vi Bran-đen-buốc
Volapük: vo Brandänburgän (län)
Yiddish: yi בראַנדנבורג
province
Finnish: fi Brandenburg
Georgian: ka ბრანდენბურგი, ka ბრანდენბურგის მხარე, ka ბრანდენბურგის პროვინცია
German: de Brandenburg, de Provinz Brandenburg f
Rhine Franconian: gmw-rfr Brandebursch Palatine
Hindi: hi ब्रांडेनबर्ग m
Kashubian: csb Brandenbùrgiô
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira بِرانْدِنْبورْگ
Polish: pl Brandenburgia f
Volapük: vo Brandänburgiän (provin)
city in the United States
Catalan: ca Brandenburg
Czech: cs Braniboř f
Dutch: nl Brandenburg
Finnish: fi Brandenburg an der Havel, fi Brandenburg
French: fr Brandebourg, fr Brandebourg-sur-la-Havel
Georgian: ka ბრანდენბურგი
German: de Brandenburg, de Brandenburg an der Havel f, de Stadt Brandenburg f
Hungarian: hu Brandenburg
Italian: it Brandeburgo m
Latin: la Brandenburgia f Medieval Latin
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Brannenborg n
Macedonian: mk Бранденбург m
Polish: pl Brandenburg m-in
Portuguese: pt Brandenburgo f
Russian: ru Бра́нденбург m, ru Бранденбу́рг m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Branibor m
Volapük: vo Brandenburg (zif)
See also
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.
He wore a coat trimmed with Brandenburgs.
See also
Wikipedia article on the state of Brandenburg
Wikipedia article on the province of Brandenburg
Wikipedia article on the town of Brandenburg an der Havel
en eponyms
German
de:
thumb|de Lage von Brandenburg in Deutschland
Etymology
The second element is from de Burg; the first element is usually said to be of de sla - origin, possibly related to the root of the Czech city name cs Brno.Vlasto, A. P. (1970). The Entry of the Slavs Into Christendom: An Introduction to the Medieval History of the Slavs. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p. 352
Pronunciation
de [ˈbʁandn̩bʊʁk]
de De-Brandenburg-2.ogg
de De-Brandenburg.ogg
de De-Brandenburg2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Bran den burg
Proper noun
toponym
de state in northeast c/Germany Brandenburg
de Land Brandenburg
de historical province c/Germany Brandenburg
de Mark Brandenburg Provinz Brandenburg
de Brandenburg an der Havel
Derived terms
de Brandenburger brandenburgisch Brandenburgisch Kurfürstentum Brandenburg Land Brandenburg Mark Brandenburg märkisch-brandenburgisch Märkisch-Brandenburgisch Neubrandenburg Provinz Brandenburg Brandenburg an der Havel
Related terms
de Branden, de Brandenau, de Brandenbach, de Brandenberg, de Brandenfels, de Brandelshausen, de Brandenkopf, de Brantental
Descendants
cs 1 Braniboř
en 1 Brandenburg
fa-ira 1 بِرانْدِنْبورْگ
it 1 Brandeburgo
lt 1 Brándenburgas
frm 1 Brandebourg
ru 1 Бра́нденбург
es 1 Brandeburgo
tr 1 Brandenburg
See also
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