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| x Dresden |
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Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Upper Sorbian: Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden...
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Leipzig (German: [ˈlaɪptsɪç] (help·info), Upper Sorbian: Lipsk) is, with a population of over 513,082, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.
Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the...
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| x Stuttgart |
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Stuttgart (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʊtɡaɐ̯t]) is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,497 (June 2008) while the metropolitan area has a population of...
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| x Munich |
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Munich (German: München, pronounced [ˈmʏnçən] ( listen); Austro-Bavarian: Minga) is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and...
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| x Potsdam |
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Potsdam [ˈpɔtsdam] is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and is part of the Metropolitan area of Berlin/Brandenburg. It is situated on the River Havel, some 25 kilometres southwest of the centre of Berlin.
Potsdam has...
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| x Wiesbaden |
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Wiesbaden is a city in southwestern Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 300,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 35,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the American military). Wiesbaden, together with...
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| x Hanover |
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Hanover or Hannover (German: Hannover (help·info), IPA: [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great...
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| x Schwerin |
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Schwerin (German pronunciation: [ʃveˈʁiːn]) is a city in northern Germany and the capital of the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania). The population as of end of 2007 was 95,855.
Schwerin is surrounded by many picturesque lakes...
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| x Düsseldorf |
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Düsseldorf (German pronunciation: [ˈdʏsəldɔɐf]) is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an economic centre of Germany and is located in the Rhein-Ruhr area, the country's most populated metropolitan area. The city is...
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| x Mainz |
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Mainz (pronounced /ˈmaɪ̯nts/) (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was a politically important seat of the Prince-elector of Mainz (see: Archbishopric of Mainz) under the Holy...
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| x Saarbrücken |
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Saarbrücken (German pronunciation: [ˈzaːɐ̯ˈbrʏkn]; French: Sarrebruck) is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city sits at the heart of a metropolitan area that bounds westwards to Dillingen and northeastwards to Neunkirchen, in...
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| x Magdeburg |
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Magdeburg (Low Saxon: Meideborg, pronounced [ˈmaˑɪdebɔɐx]), the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe. Emperor Otto I, the first Holy Roman...
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Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and is the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nürnberg and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich. It lies in...
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| x Karlsruhe |
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Karlsruhe (German pronunciation: [ˈkaɐ̯lsʁuːə]; population 288,917 in 2007) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.
Founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, the surrounding town...
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| x Wetzlar |
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Wetzlar is a town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. Located at 8° 30′ E, 50° 34′ N, there are (as of 2002) approximately 54,000 inhabitants. The town is situated on the Lahn river.
Notable...
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| x Gießen |
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Gießen (German pronunciation: [ˈɡiːsən], locally [ˈɡiːzən]) is a town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative region of Gießen. The population is approximately 71,000, with...
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| x Neuss |
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Neuss (German pronunciation: [ˈnɔʏs]) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf, and owes its success to its location at the crossing of historic and modern trade routes.
Neuss was...
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| x Greiz |
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Greiz is a town in Thuringia, the capital of the district Greiz. Greiz is situated in eastern Thuringia on the river Weiße Elster.
The prime location of Greiz at the river Weiße Elster and the stream Göltzsch made it a fast growing town. It kept...
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| x Eisenach |
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Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated between the northern foothills of the Thuringian Forest and the Hainich National Park. Population was 43,626 in 2006.
The history of Eisenach is linked with the Wartburg Castle, which was...
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| x Gera |
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Gera is the third largest city in the German state of Thuringia after Erfurt, the Thuringian capital, and Jena. It is situated in east Thuringia on the river Weiße Elster (literally the "White Magpie"), approximately 60 kilometres to the south of...
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| x Jena |
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Jena (German pronunciation: [ˈjeːna]) is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.
Jena was first mentioned in an 1182...
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| x Suhl |
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Suhl is a town in Thuringia, Germany. Its population in 2003 was 43,610.
Suhl sits on the south edge of the Suhler Scholle, an upthrust granite complex that is streaked by numerous dikes. This is part of the Ruhla-Schleusingen Horst that defines the...
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| x Weimar |
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Weimar (German pronunciation: [ˈvaɪmaʁ]) is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately...
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| x Coburg |
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Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920. Before 1918, it was the smaller of the two capital...
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| x Freudenstadt |
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Freudenstadt is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to the east (approx. 47 km away).
The city lies...
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| x Eberswalde |
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Eberswalde (German pronunciation: [ˌʔeːbɐsˈvaldə]) is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German Federal State (Bundesland) of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42144 (census in June 2005),...
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| x Montabaur |
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Montabaur (German pronunciation: [ˈmontabauɐ]) is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. At the same time, it is also the administrative centre of the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur – a kind of...
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| x Zittau |
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Zittau (Czech Žitava, Polish Żytawa) is a city in the south east of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, close to the border tripoint of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. As of 2007, there are 29,361 people in the city. It is part of the...
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| x Lichtenfels |
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Lichtenfels is a town in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the district of Lichtenfels. It is situated on the river Main, approx. 15 km southeast of Coburg, and 30 km northeast of Bamberg.
It is the basket-making capital of Germany and has the only...
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| x Aschaffenburg |
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Aschaffenburg (German pronunciation: [aˈʃafənbʊɐ̯k], locally [ˈaʒəˌbɛːʃ]) is a large town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the administrative seat.
Aschaffenburg...
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| x Nordhausen |
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Nordhausen is a city at the southern edge of the Harz mountains, in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Nordhausen. It was once known for its tobacco industry, and is still known for its distilled spirit, Nordhäuser...
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| x Kaiserslautern |
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Kaiserslautern (help·info) (German pronunciation: [kaɪzɐˈslaʊtɐn]) is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland (State) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) at the edge of the Palatinate forest (Pfälzer Wald). The historic centre...
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| x Wunsiedel |
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Wunsiedel is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Fichtelgebirge mountains, at the bottom of the Kösseine Plateau. Wunsiedel is the seat of the Wunsiedel district.
Wunsiedel was first mentioned in 1163. In 1285, Burgrave Frederick III of...
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| x Alzey |
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Alzey (German pronunciation: [ˈaltsaɪ]) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the district of Alzey-Worms, and the fourth-largest town in Rheinhessen, after Mainz, Worms, and Bingen. In 2008 Alzey is announced...
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| x Sonthofen |
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Sonthofen is the most southerly town of Germany, located in the Oberallgäu region of the Bavarian Alps. Neighbouring Oberstdorf, is situated 14 km farther south but is not classified as a town. Sonthofen is located at 47°30′57″N 10°16′52″E / 47...
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| x Eichstätt |
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Eichstätt (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪçʃtεt], formerly also Eichstädt or Aichstädt) is a city in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the District of Eichstätt. It is located along the Altmühl River, at 48°53′30″N 11°11′0″E / 48...
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| x Homberg |
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Homberg is a small town in northern Hesse with about 15,000 inhabitants, and it is the seat of the Schwalm-Eder district.
Homberg lies in the transitional zone between the West Hesse Depression – a sunken area dating from the Tertiary subera – and...
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| x Bad Reichenhall |
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Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps (including Mount Staufen (1,771 m) and Mount Zwiesel (1...
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| x Bad Doberan |
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Bad Doberan is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Bad Doberan. Population: 11.294 (2007).
Bad Doberan is situated just 15 kilometers (9 mi) west of Rostock's city centre and is therefore part of one of...
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| x Dachau |
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Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people...
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| x Sondershausen |
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Sondershausen is a town in Thuringia, Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was incorporated by Sondershausen.
Until 1918 it was part of the...
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| x Pasewalk |
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Pasewalk (German pronunciation: [ˈpaːzəvalk]) is a town in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. Located on the Uecker river, it is the capital of the Uecker-Randow district, and of the Uecker-Randow-Tal Amt of which it is not part....
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| x Erding |
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Erding is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district Erding. It had a population of 34,122 in 2004. It is twinned with Bastia in Corsica
The original Erdinger Weissbier is a well-known Bavarian specialty. Grünbacher is one of the better...
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| x Stade |
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Stade (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtaːdə]) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (Metropolregion Hamburg). It is the seat of the district named after it. The city was first mentioned in a document from 994.
It...
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| x Waiblingen |
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Waiblingen is a town in the southwest of Germany, located in the center of the densely populated Stuttgart Region, directly neighboring Stuttgart. It is the capital of the Rems-Murr district. As of September 30, 2004 Waiblingen accommodated 52,948...
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Stollberg is a town in the Free State of Saxony, in the district Erzgebirgskreis. It is situated 20 km east of Zwickau, and 17 km southwest of Chemnitz.
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| x Detmold |
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Detmold (German pronunciation: [ˈdɛtmɔlt]) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of about 74,000. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947....
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| x Bad Ems |
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Bad Ems is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the county seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well-known as a bathing resort on the river Lahn. Bad Ems is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bad Ems.
The...
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| x Apolda |
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Apolda is a town in Thuringia, Germany, the capital of the Weimarer Land district. It is situated near the river Ilm, c. 15 km east by north from Weimar, on the main line of railway from Berlin via Halle, to Frankfurt.
Apolda was first mentioned in...
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| x Kassel |
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Kassel [ˈkʰasəl] (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated on the Fulda River in northern Hessen, Germany, one of the two sources of the Weser river . It is the administrative seat of the Kassel administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) and...
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| x Schleswig |
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Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig; South Jutlandic: Sljasvig, archaic English: Sleswick; Low German: Sleswig) is a town in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis (district) Schleswig-Flensburg. It has a...
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| x Villingen-Schwenningen |
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Villingen-Schwenningen is the largest city of the Schwarzwald-Baar district located in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has 81,520 inhabitants (as of 2005).
In the Middle Ages, Villingen was a town under Austrian lordship. During the...
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Döbeln is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, part of the Mittelsachsen district, located at both banks of the river Freiberger Mulde.
Döbeln's population peaked at 31,037 in 1950 and had fallen to just about 21,816 inhabitants by 2003.
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| x Ratzeburg |
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Ratzeburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʁatsəbʊʁk]) is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is surrounded by four lakes—the resulting isthmuses between the lakes form the access lanes to the town. Ratzeburg is the capital of the Kreis (district) of...
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Ludwigslust (German pronunciation: [luːtvɪçsˈlʊst]) is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 40 km south of Schwerin. It is the capital of the district of Ludwigslust.
Ludwigslust is a relatively young town. In 1724 Prince Ludwig, the son of...
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Ottweiler is a municipality, former seat of the district of Neunkirchen, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Blies, approx. 7 km north of Neunkirchen, and 25 km northeast of Saarbrücken.
The town is notable for the Ottweiler porcelain.
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| x Recklinghausen |
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Recklinghausen (German pronunciation: [ʁɛklɪŋˈhaʊzən]) is the northernmost city in the Ruhr-Area and the capital of the Recklinghausen district. It borders the more rural Münsterland and is characterized by large fields and farms in the north and...
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Neu-Ulm is a town in Bavaria, capital of the Neu-Ulm district. Neighbouring towns include Ulm, Senden, Pfaffenhofen an der Roth, Holzheim, Nersingen and Elchingen. The population is 51,110 (30 June 2005).
The modern history of Neu-Ulm began with the...
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| x Pirna |
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Pirna is a city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the administrative district Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. The city's population is over 40,000. Pirna is located near Dresden and is an important district town as well as a Große...
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