Berlin, Brandenburg, or Brannybor, are Slav-Wendish names. The ruler of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, a State which is even more Prussian than Prussia, and which is a strange survival of feudalism, bears until this day the name of “Prince of the Wendes.” Century after century the Burgraves of Brandenburg and Kings of Prussia had to attract colonists to their dreary dominions.
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