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5 days ago · The state of Thuringia is governed by a Landtag (parliament) and a minister-president, who is generally a leading member of the parliament’s strongest party. Jena, Erfurt, Ilmenau, and Weimar are sites of universities. Weimar is also a major historical and contemporary centre for culture in Thuringia.
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History of Thuringia. The Germanic Thuringians appeared...
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Thuringian Basin, fertile agricultural region of Germany,...
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14 hours ago · FILE - American soldiers and supplies arrive on the shore of the French coast of German-occupied Normandy during the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 in World War II. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Of those, 73,000 were from the United States, 83,000 from Britain and Canada.
2 days ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500).
1 day ago · The prospect of deportation and death ended. My family’s survival was the direct result of the successful Allied landing on D-Day. Of some 340,000 Jews living in France in 1940, more than 75,000 ...
1 day ago · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.
2 days ago · The massive migrations of Germanic and Slavic tribes throughout Europe in the 5th century ultimately contributes to that fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE. In its stead, multiple Germanic Kingdoms fill the power vacuum around the European continent.
5 days ago · Saxony, any of several major territories in German history. It has been applied: (1) before 1180 ce, to an extensive far-north German region including Holstein but lying mainly west and southwest of the estuary and lower course of the Elbe River; (2) between 1180 and 1423, to two much smaller and.
