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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.
The State of Thuringia (German: Land Thüringen, [ʃtaːt ˈtyːʁɪŋən]) was a German state during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, as well as a state of the Soviet occupation zone in Germany and East Germany. The state capital was Weimar, the largest city Gera.
Thuringia: Thuringia: Today part of: Germany: The Bezirk Gera was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and main town was Gera. History
Meanwhile, traditional parties have lost ground in Germany, as in other parts of Europe, amid growing voter anger at mainstream politics. Björn Höcke, leader of the far-right AfD party in Thuringia.
There are more migrants in former West Germany than in former East Germany. [11] [12] [13] About 1.7 million people (or 12% of the population) had left the new states. [2] A disproportionately high number of them were women under the age of 35. [14] About 500,000 women under the age of 30 left for western Germany between 1993 and 2008. [15]
In present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e. the Oder–Neisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II.
On 7 October 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded, commonly known as East Germany. On 25 July 1952, in the course of administrative reform in East Germany, its Parliament passed the "Law on the Further Democratization of the Structure and Operation of the State Organs in Thuringia". Thus the state was relieved of its functions.
In 1952, Thuringia was dissolved and replaced by administrative divisions of East Germany (Bezirks). Altenburg became part of the Leipzig administrative district, in which it was the second largest city. After reunification, previously extant states were re-established in the former east Germany as federal states in the reunified Germany.