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Saar, river, France and Germany

(Encyclopedia)Saar zär [key], Fr. Sarre, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Vosges Mts., NE France, and flowing N past Sarrebourg and Sarreguemines. It enters Saarland, W Germany, and continues NW past S...

Spanish civil war

(Encyclopedia)Spanish civil war, 1936–39, conflict in which the conservative and traditionalist forces in Spain rose against and finally overthrew the second Spanish republic. For Germany and Italy the Span...

Franken

(Encyclopedia)Franken, region, Germany: see Franconia. ...

Godesberg

(Encyclopedia)Godesberg, Germany: see Bad Godesberg. ...

Gmünd

(Encyclopedia)Gmünd: see Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. ...

Münden

(Encyclopedia)Münden: see Hannoversch-Münden, Germany. ...

Wanne-Eickel

(Encyclopedia)Wanne-Eickel, Germany: see Herne.
 

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