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Alexandria · MMXXVIExplicit colophon · 2026

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Potsdam

Also known as

Ciudad imperial de Postdam
Imperial City of Potsdam
Pocdamo
Poczdam
Podstupim
Podstupim

Image illustrating Potsdam — archival plate · Wikimedia Commons · Potsdamsee Wikimedia Commons

This entry is a stub. The Library is awakening — a longer account is being written.

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in countryGermany1949 CE
place of death ofAdolf Sprung1848 CE
birthplace ofAlexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten1899 CE
birthplace ofAlfred von Rauch1824 CE
birthplace ofBernhard Hassenstein1922 CE
birthplace ofBogislaw von Bonin1908 CE
in countryBrandenburg-Prussia1618 CE
birthplace ofDaniel Frahn1987 CE
place of death ofDirk Sager1940 CE
birthplace ofDmitry Brusnikin1957 CE
place of death ofEduard Kubat1891 CE
place of death ofElisabeth Brönner1880 CE

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