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Potsdam (), is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg. It directly borders the German capital Berlin and is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin's city center. Potsdam was a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser, until 1918. Around the city there are a series of interconnected lakes and cultural landmarks, in particular the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany. The Potsdam Conference, the major post-World War II conference between the victorious Allies, was held at another palace in the area, the Cecilienhof. Babelsberg, in the south-eastern part of Potsdam, was a major film production studio before the war and has enjoyed success as a major center of European film production since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Filmstudio Babelsberg is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. Potsdam developed into a centre of science in Germany in the 19th century. Today, there are three public colleges, the University of Potsdam and more than 30 research institutes in the city. ==Etymology== The name "Potsdam" originally seems to have been ''Poztupimi''. A common theory is that it derives from an old West Slavonic term meaning "beneath the oaks",〔http://www.potsdam.de/cms/beitrag/10000936/33981/〕 i.e., the corrupted ''pod dubmi/dubimi'' (''pod'' "beneath, ''dub'' "oak"). However some question this explanation.〔August Kopish, "Die Königlichen Schlösser u. Gärten zu Potsdam", Berlin, 1854, (p.18 (Google Books) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Potsdam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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