Berlin
had its beginning in
two Wendish villages,
Berlin and Kölln,
which were chartered
in the 13th cent. and
merged in 1307. It assumed
importance as a Hanseatic
League town in the 14th
cent. and became the
seat of the electors
of Brandenburg (after
1701, kings of Prussia)
in 1486. Berlin suffered
severely from the Thirty
Years War (1618–48),
but Frederick William
(reigned 1640–88),
the Great Elector, restored
and improved the city.
Occupied in the Seven
Years War by Austrian
(1757) and Russian (1760)
troops and in the Napoleonic
Wars by the French (1806–8),
Berlin emerged from
the conflicts as a center
of German national feeling
and an increasingly
serious rival of Vienna. Berlin Florist - Flowers Berlin
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