Editing Altmark (section)

{{Short description|Historic region in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany}}
:''See [[German tanker Altmark]] for the ship named after Altmark and [[Stary Targ]] for the Polish village named Altmark in [[German language|German]].''
[[File:Schernikau Altmark.jpg|thumb|300px|Altmark at [[Schernikau]]]]
The '''Altmark''' ({{IPA|de|ˈaltˌmaʁk|-|De-Altmark.ogg}}; English: Old [[March (territorial entity)|March]]<ref name=Hansard-82>Hansard, ''The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time ...'', Volume 32. 1 February to 6 March 1816, T.C. Hansard, 1816. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I8ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=P74#PPA78,M1 pp. 82]. Article XXIII of the [[Final Act of the Congress of Vienna]]</ref>) is a historic region in [[Germany]], comprising the northern third of [[Saxony-Anhalt]]. As the initial territory of the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|March of Brandenburg]], it is sometimes referred to as the "Cradle of Prussia", as by [[Otto von Bismarck]], a native of [[Schönhausen]] near [[Stendal]].