Definition of "Brandenburg"
proper noun (historical) The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg , Provinz Brandenburg ), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946. quotations
Quotations Since the reign of Charlemagne , this country is divided into High and Low Germany ... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine , Triers , Cologn , Mentz , Weſtphalia , Heſſe , Brunſwic , Miſnia , Luſatia , High Saxony upon the Elbe , Low Saxony upon the Elbe , Mecklenburg , Lauenburg , Brandenburg , Magdeburg , and Pomerania .
1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2