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Erfurt (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁfʊʁt] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000.It lies in the wide valley of the River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities (Thüringer Städtekette), stretching from ...
Thuringia, [a] officially the Free State of Thuringia, [b] is one of Germany's 16 states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. [4] Erfurt is the capital and largest city. Other cities include Jena, Gera and Weimar.
It was enlarged to 15,585 km 2 by the Prussian Erfurt administrative district and received a new constitution on 20 December 1946. With the July 1952 reorganization of the East German states into districts, Thuringia transferred its administrative functions to three new districts, and the state was formally dissolved in December 1958.
Greiz (/ ɡ r aɪ t s / gryts; German pronunciation: [ɡʁaɪ̯t͡s] ⓘ) is a town in the state of Thuringia, Germany, and is the capital of the district of Greiz.Greiz is situated in eastern Thuringia, 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of the state capital Erfurt, on the White Elster river.
The Bezirk Erfurt was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. ... becoming again part of the state of Thuringia. Geography
BERLIN (Reuters) -Three parties in the eastern German state of Thuringia joined forces on Thursday to keep the poll-topping Alternative for Germany out of power, electing as state premier a ...
Weimar [a] is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Leipzig, 170 km (106 mi) north of Nuremberg and 170 km (106 mi) west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouring cities of Erfurt and Jena, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia, with ...
East Germany claimed East Berlin as its capital, a status recognised by virtually all Eastern Bloc countries. However, the Western Allies (the US , UK , and France ) never formally acknowledged the authority of the East German government to govern East Berlin; the official Allied protocol recognised only the authority of the Soviet Union in ...