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John Cicero
elector of Brandenburg
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history of Brandenburg
- In Germany: The princes and the Landstände
The elector John Cicero took up the battle 38 years later, when the cities of the Altmark in west Brandenburg refused to pay an excise tax on beer voted by the assembly of estates. He discomfited the cities in the ensuing “Beer War” and radically revised their…
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