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81Obodrite — ▪ people member of a people of the Polab group, the northwesternmost of the Slavs in medieval Europe. The Obodrites (sometimes called the Bodryci, from bodry, “brave”) inhabited the lowland country between the lower Elbe River and the… …
82City-Bahn — DB Class 218 with a City Bahn train Converted interior of a City Bahn coach …
83HAVEL — an important tributary of the Lower Elbe, which it joins a few miles from Wittenberg; it rises in Mecklenburg, and takes a circuitous course past Potsdam of 180 m …
84LOMBARDS — a German people, settled at the beginning of our era about the lower Elbe. In the 5th century we find them in Moravia, and a century later established, a powerful people, between the Adriatic and the Danube. They invaded Italy in 568, and in… …
85LAHMEYER — GERMANY (see also List of Individuals) 29.4.1818 Hannover/D 9.8.1859 Hannover/D Johann Wilhelm Lahmeyer graduated in 1836 from the Hannover Polytechnic which was founded in 1831. Due to financial reasons, he was unable to continue there and… …
86Magdeburg Water Bridge — Elbe Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal The Magdeburg Water Bridge as seen from above Crosses River Elbe Location Magdeburg, near Berlin Longest span 106 …
87Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
88Archbishopric of Bremen — Prince Archbishopric of Bremen Erzstift Bremen State of the Holy Roman Empire ← …
89Saxe-Lauenburg — Duchy of Saxe Lauenburg Herzogtum Sachsen Lauenburg State of the Holy Roman Empire State of the German Confederation …
90List of nature parks in Germany — Map displaying the nature parks in Germany Ninety eight official nature parks (German: Naturparks) have been established in Germany under section 22, paragraph 4 of that country s Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG). They comprise about 25 …
