Brandenburg

(bran'den-boorg,) a p. of Pru ia, bet. Lat. 51° 10' and 53° 37′ N., Lon. 11° 13' and 16° 12′ E., consisting mainly of an immense sandy plain, drained by the Oder, Spree, Netz, and other rivers; area, 15,505 sq. m. Chief town, Berlin. Pop. 2,716,022. B. is the cradle of the Pru ian kings. It was given in 1416 by the Emperor Sigismund to Frederick VI., Count of Hohenzollern and Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor of the present emperor of Germany, and was divided into two parts, the Electoral and the New Mark. The margraves of B. having joined to the electorate the duchy of Pru ia and some other po e ions, the " Great Elector," Frederick III., declared himself king of Pru ia, under the name of Frederick I., in 1701.-BRANDENBURG, a town in the above p., on the Havel, 37 m. W.S.W. of Berlin. Pop. 26,180. [s. 112]