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Spandau

Spandau is a district of Berlin, Germany, at the confluence of the Havel and the Spree. A town first recorded in 1197, with a castle of the margraves of Brandenburg, it was where Elector Joachim II took communion in both kinds in 1539, marking Brandenburg's adoption of the Reformation. Its 16th-century citadel survives, and its prison held Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Spandau. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/spandau
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