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Königsberg (/ ˈ k ɜː n ɪ ɡ z b ɜːr ɡ /; German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ; lit. ' King's mountain '; Polish: Królewiec; Lithuanian: Karaliaučius; Baltic Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs; Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized: Kyónigsberg, IPA: [ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbʲɪrk]) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
The Battle of Königsberg, also known as the Königsberg offensive, was one of the last operations of the East Prussian offensive during World War II. In four days of urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg, present day Kaliningrad, Russia.
The Königsberg Castle (German: Königsberger Schloss, Russian: Кёнигсбергский замок, romanized: Konigsbergskiy zamok) was one of the landmarks of the city of Königsberg (since 1946 Kaliningrad, Russia).
Kurt Hensel, 1925. Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician, developed Goldbach's conjecture; Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician, worked on elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations
Kaliningrad and the Konigsberg Bridge Problem at Convergence; Euler's original publication (in Latin) The Bridges of Königsberg; How the bridges of Königsberg help to understand the brain; Euler's Königsberg's Bridges Problem at Math Dept. Contra Costa College; Pregel – A Google graphing tool named after this problem; Present day Graph ...
SMS Königsberg ("His Majesty's Ship Königsberg ") was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). [a] Named after Königsberg, [b] the capital of East Prussia, she was laid down in January 1905, launched in December of that year and completed by June 1906.
A first smaller Catholic cathedral was erected in the Königsberg Altstadt between 1297 and 1302. After the Samland bishop Johann Clare had acquired the eastern part of Kneiphof island from the Teutonic Knights in 1322, he and his cathedral chapter had a new see built at the site and ensured its autonomy by a 1333 treaty with Grand Master Luther von Braunschweig.
The University of Königsberg (German: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland.It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussia and charted by the King Sigismund II Augustus.