Potsdam
[ pots-dam; for 1 also German pawts-dahm ]
/ ˈpɒts dæm; for 1 also German ˈpɔts dɑm /
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noun
a city in and the capital of Brandenburg, in NE Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the residence of German emperors; wartime conference July–August 1945 of Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and later, Attlee.
a town in N New York.
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Potsdam
/ (ˈpɒtsdæm, German ˈpɔtsdam) /
noun
a city in Germany, the capital of Brandenburg on the Havel River: residence of Prussian kings and German emperors and scene of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, at which the main Allied powers agreed on a plan to occupy Germany at the end of the Second World War. Pop: 144 979 (2003 est)
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