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Volga Germans. The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃə] ⓘ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized: povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the ...
By the late 14th century, 130 towns and 1300 villages had adopted German law. [8] Silesian cities such as Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg), Lwówek Śląski (Löwenberg) and Złotoryja (Goldberg) had typical architecture, being centered around a central square, the ring, which became known in Polish as rynek. German craftsmen and miners also started ...
Numbers of cities and towns in the German states: Bavaria: 317 cities and towns. Baden-Württemberg: 316 cities and towns. North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns. Hesse: 191 cities and towns. Saxony: 169 cities and towns. Lower Saxony: 159 cities and towns.
Lighthouse in Kołobrzeg, Poland. Neptune fountain in Gdańsk, Poland. Eldena Abbey, Greifswald, Germany. Ruin of St. Peter's and Hans's Church in Visby. Malbork Castle. Świnoujście is a famous resort. Marina in Gdynia. This is a list of major cities and towns around the Baltic Sea, as well as some notable cities/towns with a small population.
Wormditt. Braunsberg. Orneta. Warmia-Masuria. Zinten. Heiligenbeil. Kornevo. Kaliningrad. This article is a translation of the German Wikipedia's Liste der Städte in Ostpreußen article.
a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
Karlsruhe (/ ˈ k ɑːr l z r uː ə / KARLZ-roo-ə, US also / ˈ k ɑːr l s-/ KARLSS-, [3] [4] [5] German: [ˈkaʁlsˌʁuːə] ⓘ; South Franconian: Kallsruh) is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. [6]