Brandenburg-Prussia [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Brandenburg-Prussia
Brandenburg-Prussia (, ) is the historiographic denomination for the Early Modern realm of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollerns between 1618 and 1701. Based in the Electorate of Brandenburg, the main branch of the Hohenzollern intermarried with the branch ruling the Duchy of Prussia, and secured succession upon the latter's extinction in the male line in 1618. Another consequence of the intermarriage was the incorporation of the lower Rhenish principalities of Cleves, Mark and Ravensberg after the Treaty of Xanten in 1614.
The Thirty Years' War (
the Allied Control Council on 25 February 1947, Prussia was officially proclaimed to be dissolved.
In the Soviet occupation zone, which became East Germany (officially, the German Democratic Republic) in 1949, the former Prussian territories were reorganised into the states of Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, with the remaining parts of the Province of Pomerania going to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. These states were "de facto" abolished in 1952 in favour of "Bezirke" (districts), but were recreated after German reunification in 1990.