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Thuringia

Geography; Countries & Territories

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country. It has an area of 16,171 square kilometres and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by ...

Rhineland-Palatinate

Geography; Countries & Territories

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 square kilometres and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz.[2] ...

Lower Saxony

Geography; Countries & Territories

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in northwestern Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany. In rural areas Northern Low Saxon, a dialect of Low ...

North Rhine-Westphalia

Geography; Countries & Territories

Around 1 A.D. there were numerous incursions through Westphalia and perhaps even some permanent Roman or Romanized settlements. The Battle of Teutoburg Forest took place near Osnabrück (as mentioned, ...

Baden-Württemberg

Geography; Countries & Territories

The area used to be covered by the historical states of Baden, including the former Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg, part of the region of Swabia. Württemberg was occupied by the Romans in the ...

Saxony

Geography; Countries & Territories

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with ...

Hesse

Geography; Countries & Territories

As early as the Paleolithic period, the Central Hessian region was inhabited. Due to the favorable climate of the location, people lived there about 50,000 years ago during the last glacial period, ...

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