Last week we've looked at the prehistory of the territories that would eventually be united in the state of Prussia and the Teutonic Order, the Warrior Monks that colonized it. Their atrocities left ...

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 ...

The attempted introduction of a new rationalist Lutheran hymnal into Brandenburg-Prussia in 1781 was largely a failure due to the successful popular opposition towards it. This opposition was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prussia's glamour and glory — the most beautiful palaces in Brandenburg Magnificent castles to this day represent the past power of Prussia in north-eastern Germany. In addition to their main ...

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 ...

In 1640, Friedrich Wilhelm (1620–1688) became prince elector of Brandenburg-Prussia. With this, he inherited a set of diverse, nonadjacent territories in the northern reaches of the Holy Roman Empire ...

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 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 ...