Potsdam (deu)

Potsdam

Potsdam ranks 279th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind England, Rochester, New York, and West Berlin. Memorable people born in Potsdam include Ernst Haeckel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Frederick William III of Prussia. Memorable people who died in Potsdam include Frederick the Great, Erich von Falkenhayn, and Johann Gottfried Galle. Potsdam has been the birth place of many politicians and military personnels and the death place of many politicians and military personnels. Potsdam is located in Germany.

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of which are located within Potsdam's city limits. It lies some 25 kilometres southwest of Berlin's city centre. The name of the city and of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Read more on Wikipedia