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  2. Schlieren, Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    Schlieren was first mentioned in 828. [3] Until 1415, Schlieren belonged to Habsburg. After the conquest of Aargau by the Swiss Confederates it was a component of the county of Baden. In 1803 Schlieren was assigned to the Canton of Zürich. In 1777 the minister Heinrich Keller created here the first "deaf-mute school" in Switzerland.

  3. Schlieren railway station - Wikipedia

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    Schlieren railway station (German: Bahnhof Schlieren) is a railway station in Switzerland, situated in the municipality of Schlieren.The station is located on the Zürich–Baden railway line and is a stop of the Zurich S-Bahn served by lines S11 and S12.

  4. Silesia - Wikipedia

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    Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.

  5. Province of Silesia - Wikipedia

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    Division of Prussian Silesia between Weimar Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia after World War I Division of: Area in 1910 in km 2 Share of territory Population in 1910 After WW1 part of: Notes Lower Silesia 27,105 km 2 [2] 100% 3.017.981 Divided between: to Poland: 527 km 2 [3] [4] 2%: 1%: Poznań Voivodeship (Niederschlesiens Ostmark [5 ...

  6. Schlieren - Wikipedia

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    Schlieren (/ ˈ ʃ l ɪər ən / SHLEER-ən; German: [ˈʃliːʁn̩] ⓘ, German for 'streaks') are optical inhomogeneities in transparent media that are not necessarily visible to the human eye. Schlieren physics developed out of the need to produce high-quality lenses devoid of such inhomogeneities.

  7. Geography of Germany - Wikipedia

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    General map of Germany. Germany (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent.

  8. Schlitz, Hesse - Wikipedia

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    Schlitz borders in the north on the communities of Breitenbach and Niederaula (both in Hersfeld-Rotenburg), in the east on the communities of Haunetal (Hersfeld-Rotenburg) and Burghaun and the town of Hünfeld (both in Fulda district), in the southeast on the city of Fulda (Fulda district), in the south on the communities of Großenlüder and Bad Salzschlirf (both in Fulda district), in the ...

  9. Zurich S-Bahn - Wikipedia

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    The Zurich S-Bahn (German: S-Bahn Zürich) system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Zug), with a few lines extending into or crossing the territory of southern Germany.