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15TH 17TH CENTURY
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-1415: Frederick I became the elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which he ruled until 1440. Subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until -1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and finally as ... |
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13TH - 14TH CENTURY
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Throughout these events, the area of today's Berlin contained small fishing and farming villages.After 1200: Under the grandsons of Albert the Bear, Otto and Johann, two towns, Cölln in 1237 and Berlin in 1244, were founded on the banks of the river ... |
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EARLY HISTORY
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-98 AD: Tacitus described the territory of Germania. What is now Berlin, in ancient times was well outside the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Germanic tribes then inhabited the region (some experts argue that Slavic peoples might have been settling t... |
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HISTORY OF BERLIN
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The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- "swamp".The earliest evidence of settlements in the area... |
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