Potsdam (deu)

Potsdam

Potsdam ranks 247th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nizhny Novgorod, Douala, and Yaoundé. Memorable people born in Potsdam include Ernst Haeckel, Frederick William III of Prussia, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Memorable people who died in Potsdam include Frederick the Great, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Erich von Falkenhayn. Potsdam has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians 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