Hanover | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/12/2018

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Hanover


00:03:02 1 History
00:06:24 1.1 19th century
00:08:39 1.2 Nazi Germany
00:10:43 1.3 World War II
00:12:13 1.4 Population development
00:12:22 2 Geography
00:12:31 2.1 Climate
00:12:47 2.2 Subdivisions
00:12:55 2.2.1 Districts
00:13:28 2.2.2 Quarters
00:13:47 3 Main sights
00:19:54 4 Society and culture
00:20:03 4.1 Religious life
00:20:41 4.2 Museums and galleries
00:24:54 4.3 Theatre, cabaret and musical
00:26:28 4.4 Music
00:26:36 4.4.1 Classical music
00:27:24 4.4.2 Popular music
00:27:54 4.5 Sport
00:31:33 4.6 Regular events
00:34:33 5 Transport
00:34:41 5.1 Rail
00:35:06 5.2 Air
00:35:23 5.3 Road
00:36:40 5.4 Bus and light rail
00:37:03 5.5 Bicycle
00:37:20 6 Economy
00:38:31 6.1 List of largest employers in Hanover
00:38:41 6.2 Key figures
00:39:47 7 Business development
00:40:38 8 Education
00:42:05 9 People and residents of Hanover
00:45:53 10 International relations
00:46:05 11 See also



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Hanover or Hannover (; German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ] (listen); Low German: Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Lower Saxony, and its 535,061 (2017) inhabitants make it the thirteenth largest city of Germany, as well as the third-largest city of Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen. The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine (progression: Aller→ Weser→ North Sea) and its tributary Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city of the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen, and Bremen.
Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636-1692), the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1692-1814), the  Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866), the Province of Hanover of the Kingdom of Prussia (1868-1918), the Province of Hanover of the Free State of Prussia (1918-1946), and of the State of Hanover (1946). From 1714 to 1837, Hanover was by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover).
The city is a major crossing point of railway lines and highways (Autobahnen), connecting European main lines in both the east-west (Berlin–Ruhr area/Düsseldorf/Cologne) and north-south (Hamburg–Frankfurt/Stuttgart/Munich) directions. Hannover Airport lies north of the city, in Langenhagen, and is Germany's ninth-busiest airport. The city's most notable institutions of higher education are the Hannover Medical School with its university hospital (Klinikum der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover), and the University of Hanover.
The Hanover fairground, due to numerous extensions, especially for the Expo 2000, is the largest in the world. Hanover hosts annual commercial trade fairs such as the Hanover Fair and up to 2018 the CeBIT. The IAA Commercial Vehicles show takes place every two years. It is the world's leading trade show for transport, logistics and mobility. Every year Hanover hosts the Schützenfest Hannover, the world's largest marksmen's festival, and the Oktoberfest Hannover.
"Hanover" is the traditional English spelling. The German spelling (with a double n) is becoming more popular in English; recent editions of encyclopedias prefer the German spelling, and the local government uses the German spelling on English websites. The English pronunciation, with stress on the first syllable, is applied to both the German and English spellings, which is different from German pronunciation, with stress on the second syllable and a long second vowel. The traditional English spelling is still used in historical contexts, especially when referring to the British House of Hanover.