The area south of Leipzig City is a big lignite mining area. It will be turned lakeland in the near future. The lignite made the Leipzig area the biggest industrial part of East Germany.
Muldentalkreis
The Muldentalkreis was a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It ended in 2008.
The district was formed in 1994 when the two old districts of Grimma and Wurzen were joined together. A few municipalities from other districts around Bad Lausick were added as well.
The district is named after its major river, the "Mulde" - the name means . The Mulde is starts in the south of the district where two smaller rivers, the "Freiberger Mulde" and the "Zwickauer Mulde" join.
Torgau-Oschatz
Torgau-Oschatz was a rural district ("Landkreis") in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. The district was created in 1994 by joining the two districts Oschatz and Torgau, and 6 municipalities from the former district Eilenburg. It ended in 2008.
Geneva (disambiguation)
Geneva is a city in Switzerland.
Geneva may also refer to:
Geneva can also be these places in the United States:
Uri
Uri can mean:
Geography:
URI, a three-letter abbreviation:
Amt (political division)
In Germany, an Amt, or Samtgemeinde, or Verbandsgemeinde, or Verwaltungsgemeinschaft is a collection of towns or municipalities in a rural district. The name used depends on which state the district is in.
The Amt joins together several small villages to help with land-use plans, sanitation, the cemetery and fire brigade services or other services that one village is too small to provide for itself.
Larger towns, usually called "free towns", can carry out these services for themselves, and are not part of an "amt".
Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis Rural District
The Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis was a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It ended in 2008.
The district was formed in 1994 by joining the two previous districts Marienberg and Zschopau.
The district is located in the Erzgebirge mountains. The highest point is the high "Hirtstein". The lowest point, , is in Witzschdorf. 40% of the district is covered by forests.
Stollberg Rural District
Stollberg Rural District was a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitzer Land. It ended in 2008.
It was first created in 1910. In 1950 the district was dissolved. In 1952 it was set up again. In the big reform of 1994 the Stollberg Rural District got bigger, because some smaller towns and villages from the city of Zwönitz and districts of Chemnitz and Aue, were transferred to Stollberg.
Stollberg Rural District is on the northwestern slope of the Erzgebirge Mountains.
Since 1990 the district has a partnership with the district Fürth in Bavaria.
Stollberg
Stollberg is a town in the Free State of Saxony, and was capital of the Stollberg Rural District. It is east of Zwickau, and southwest of Chemnitz.
Mittweida (district)
Mittweida () was a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It ended in 2008.
In 1994 the district was created, when the previous districts Hainichen, Rochlitz and part of the district of Chemnitz were joined.
Mittweida
Mittweida () is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the Landkreis Mittweida.
The town was started in the 13th century, and is now one of the biggest textile producing centres in Saxony.
Mittweida University has about 5000 students. It was started in the late 19th century. Among its students were August Horch, Walter Bruch, Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, and Gerhard Neumann.
During World War II, a subcamp of Flossenburg concentration camp was located here.
Canton of Zürich
Zürich (Swiss German: "Züri", French: "Zurich", Italian: "Zurigo", Romansh: "Turitg") is a canton of Switzerland. About 1.2 million people live there. The canton is in the northeast of Switzerland. The city of Zürich is its capital. The official language is German, but people speak the local Swiss German dialect called "Züritüütsch". English writers often write the name of the Canton of Zürich as Canton of Zurich.
The Canton of Zürich is divided into 12 districts:
The canton of Zürich has 171 municipalities:
Affoltern District
Affoltern District (also known as Knonaueramt or Säuliamt) is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its capital is Affoltern am Albis.
Affoltern contains a total of 14 municipalities:
Andelfingen District
Andelfingen is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
Andelfingen contains 24 municipalities:
Bülach District
Bülach is one of 12 districts of the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. With about 117,000 people living there, it is the third largest in the canton.
Dielsdorf District
Dielsdorf is a district in the northwestern part of the Swiss canton of Zürich.
The district contains 21 municipalities:
Dietikon District
Dietikon is a district of the Swiss canton of Zürich. The capital city is Dietikon.
Hinwil District
Hinwil is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zurich, Switzerland. The capital is the city of Hinwil.
The district contains 11 municipalities:
Horgen District
Horgen is a district of the Swiss canton of Zürich. Its capital is Horgen.
Meilen District
Meilen is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
Meilen contains 11 municipalities:
Freiberg, Saxony
Freiberg (i.e. "free mountain") is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the Freiberg Rural District.
The town was founded in 1186, and has been a centre of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries.
In 1944 the Flossenburg concentration camp built a subcamp outside the town of Freiberg. It housed over 500 female survivors of other camps, including Auschwitz Birkenau. Altogether 50 or so SS women worked in this camp until its evacuation in April 1945. The female survivors later reached the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Pfäffikon District
Pfäffikon is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Pfäffikon.
Pfäffikon contains 12 municipalities:
Uster District
Uster is one of the twelve districts of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its capital is the city of Uster.
Uster contains 10 municipalities:
Winterthur District
Winterthur is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its capital is the city of Winterthur.
Winterthur contains 19 municipalities:
Adlikon bei Andelfingen
Adlikon bei Andelfingen is a municipality of the district Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
My Story
My Story is a series of books by many different writers. Each book is a diary of a fictional girl who lived through a famous time in history.
Sometimes, the main character from one book is the mother of the main character from another book. For example, Tilly Middleton from "Bloody Tower" is the mother of Kitty Lumsden from "The Queen's Spies".
At the end of each book, there is some information about the time in history the book was about. Sometimes there is a timeline, or a fictional biography of the main character.
Yair Auron
Yair Auron, Hebrew: יאיר אורון , (born April 30, 1945) is an Israeli historian, scholar and expert specializing on Holocaust and Genocide studies, racism and contemporary Jewry. Since 2005 he is the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel, Associate Professor.
From 1974 to 1976 Auron worked as the Director of the Education Department, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in the 1980s he was a researcher of the Center for Jewish Education, Hebrew University and Academic director of European Section, The Israel Diaspora Institute, Tel-Aviv University. In 1996-1999 he was a Senior Lecturer in College of Yezreel, Head of the Division of Cultural Studies.
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