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December 30, 1974. Boundary increase. November 28, 1980. German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of the city's downtown. It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th century by a large number of German immigrants, who at one time comprised as much as a third of the city's entire population.
Ankara (/ ˈ æ ŋ k ər ə / ANG-kər-ə, US also / ˈ ɑː ŋ-/ AHNG-kər-ə; Turkish: ⓘ), [b] historically known as Ancyra [c] and Angora, [d] [15] is the capital of Turkey.Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, [5] [4] making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but the first by ...
Languages taught in schools are English, Italian, French and German. [247] Albania has a school life expectancy of 16 years and a literacy rate of 98.7%, with 99.2% for men and 98.3% for women. [248] [249] Compulsory primary education is divided into two levels, elementary and secondary school, from grade one to five and six to nine ...
Hohenschwangau Castle at night. Hohenschwangau Castle (German: Schloss Hohenschwangau) is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It was built by King Maximilian II of Bavaria, and was the childhood residence of his son, King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It is located in the German village of Hohenschwangau near the town of Füssen, part of the ...
Freiburg im Breisgau (German: [ˈfʁaɪbʊʁk ʔɪm ˈbʁaɪsɡaʊ] ⓘ; Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau; French: Fribourg-en-Brisgau; lit.Freecastle in the[ a ] Breisgau; mostly called simply Freiburg) is the fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. With around 236,000 inhabitants, it ...
Ferizaj or Uroševac, [a] is a city and a municipality in Kosovo. It is the third largest city in Kosovo by population and also the seat of Ferizaj Municipality and the Ferizaj District. [2] Ferizaj has been populated since the prehistoric era by the Starčevo, Vinča and Baden culture. During the Ottoman period, Ferizaj served as a trading ...
Hamburg (German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [7] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [8][9] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. [10][1] The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a ...
Bremerhaven (German pronunciation: [ˌbʁeːmɐˈhaːfn̩] ⓘ; Low German: Bremerhoben) is a city on the east bank of the Weser estuary in northern Germany. It forms an exclave of the city-state of Bremen. The River Geeste flows through the city before emptying into the Weser. Bremerhaven was founded in 1827 as a seaport for Bremen, and it ...