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The Serbian Wikipedia (Serbian: Википедија на српском језику, Vikipedija na srpskom jeziku) is the Serbian-language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Created on 16 February 2003, it reached its 100,000th article on 20 November 2009 before getting to another milestone with the 200,000th article on 6 July ...
Berlin's transport infrastructure provides a diverse range of urban mobility. [179] A total of 979 bridges cross 197 km (122 miles) the inner-city waterways. Berlin roads total 5,422 km (3,369 miles) of which 77 km (48 miles) are motorways (known as Autobahn). [180] In 2013 only 1.344 million motor vehicles were registered in the city. [180]
Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society (1999) McKay, Sinclair. Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century (2022) excerpt, popular history 1919 to 1989. Moorhouse, Roger. Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939‒1945 (2011) Newman, Kitty.
In 1938/1939, as part of the preparation of the monumental plans to redesign Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania, the Nazis relocated the column to its present site at the Großer Stern (Great Star). At the same time, the column was augmented by another 6.5 metres, giving it its present height of 66.89 metres.
The decentralised development has resulted in a plethora of sights in Berlin – not just in the centre of the city, but also in the outlying boroughs. For various reasons among the world's most recognized symbols of Berlin are the Brandenburg Gate and its tallest landmark, the Berlin TV tower in Mitte .
Urbanized Berlin. In December 2019, the city-state of Berlin had a population of 3,769,495 registered inhabitants [1] in an area of 891.82 square kilometers (344.33 sq mi). [2] The city's population density was 4,227 inhabitants per km 2. Berlin is Germany's largest city and the most populous city proper in the European Union.
The quarters of Berlin and many of their neighborhoods typically have a historical identity as former independent cities, villages, or rural municipalities that were united in 1920 as part of the Greater Berlin Act, forming the basis for the present-day city and state. Berliners often identify more with the quarter where they live than with the ...
The Berlin Wall History Albert the Bear - Jaxa von Köpenick - Otto I - Otto III - The Great Elector - The Soldier King - Frederick the Great - Frederick William II of Prussia - Friedrich von Wrangel - Emperor William I - Emperor William II - Berliner Unwille - Mark Brandenburg - Prussia - Province of Brandenburg - Hobrecht Plan - Spartacist Uprising - Berlin Blockade - Berlin Airlift - Berlin ...