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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.
Thuringia: Thuringia: Today part of: Germany: The Bezirk Erfurt was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Erfurt. History
Thuringia: Thuringia: Today part of: Germany: The Bezirk Suhl was a Region (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Suhl. History
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.
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.
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]
Germany searched on Monday for answers on possible security lapses after a man drove his car into a Christmas market, killing at least five people and casting a renewed spotlight on security and ...
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.