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The grand building projects of Ludwig I gave Munich the endearment "Isar-Athen" and "Monaco di Bavaria". [59] Between 1856 and 1861 the court gardener Carl von Effner landscaped the banks of the river Isar and established the Maximilian Gardens. From 1848 the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten was published as a regional newspaper in Munich.
Monaco's geographic location was crucial to Italy's strategic goals. Mussolini deployed his forces to take Monaco in June 1940, shortly after Italy declared war on France, in order to control the port of Monte Carlo and gain a territorial advantage. [10] By early 1942, Monaco's port was under the Italian Armistice Commission's control.
Walz was shot during a gunbattle with Munich police after they surrounded the hotel he was in. Some sources list his place of death as Monaco, as Munich is called Monaco (di Baviera) in Italian, which most of the reports about the case is written in. [50]
Monaco, [a] officially the Principality of Monaco, [b] is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is a semi-enclave bordered by France to the north, east and west.
Altarpiece of St Nicolas - Ludovico Brea, 1500 Interior of the Cathedral of Monaco The Cathedral of Our Immaculate Lady (Latin: Cathedralis Templum de Nostra Domina Immaculata, French: Cathédrale de Notre-Dame-Immaculée), formerly called the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas (demolished in 1874), [1] or informally the Cathedral of Monaco (French: Cathédrale de Monaco), is the Roman Catholic ...
Splendid stairway of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Aerial view of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The Bavarian State Library (German: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis before 1919) in Munich is the central "Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the biggest universal and research library in Germany and one of ...
Since the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the airfield was heavily congested. Originally the terminal was intended to handle between five and eight million passengers per year, but by 1991 the passenger numbers had skyrocketed to twelve million passengers per year, which was 50% to more than double the number of passengers that the airport was originally designed to handle.
1158 - Duke Henry the Lion builds bridge, mint, and salt-depot. [1] [2]1175 - Munich gains official status as city. 1239 - Coat of arms of Munich in use. 1240 - Otto II Wittelsbach in power.