In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of Prussia: the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, and the ...

Did Frederick William of Brandenburg found Prussia? Who really introduced the potato? A new biography of "the Great Elector" takes a deeper look at the life of the famous member of German royalty and ...

Among the objects now being transferred to a charitable organisation is Lucas Cranach the Elder’s portrait of Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg Wikimedia Commons The German government and the states of ...

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark 816pp, Allen Lane, £30 Rumours emanating from the publishing world suggest that, with the possible exception of books ...

THE changes that have taken place in Europe in the last twenty years are of a most comprehensive character, and as strange as comprehensive ; and their consequences are likely to be as remarkable as ...

Potsdam is the former residence of the Prussian kings and the capital of the state of Brandenburg. Many billions have already been spent to restore the city center along historical lines. Sanssouci ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans are starting to rethink their negative views about Prussia, the state which ruled much of northern Germany for centuries and which has been viewed for decades through the ...

The not-quite vanished state is central to the history of Europe. Riding the RE1 train from Brandenburg to the Polish border, I find its ghosts linger on. By Jeremy Cliffe The modern world is haunted ...