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  Bautzen Information
Bautzen is often regarded as the unofficial, but historical capital of Upper Lusatia, and it is a cultural center of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority.
In 1018 the Peace of Bautzen was signed between the German king Henry II and the Polish prince Boleslaus I.
During the Middle Ages it was a member of the Six Cities' Alliance of the Upper Lusatian cities of Görlitz, Zittau, Löbau, Kamenz, Lauban and Bautzen.
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  Bautzen (district)
It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the Czech Republic and the districts of Sächsische Schweiz[?], Kamenz[?], Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis[?] and Löbau-Zittau[?].
The district was established in 1994 by merging the former districts of Bautzen and Bischofswerda.
The district belongs to the region of Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Bautzen_(district).html   (167 words)

  
 Bautzen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bautzen may be regarded as the unofficial capital of Upper Lusatia, and it is a cultural center of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority.
In 1018 the Peace of Bautzen was signed between the German king Henry II and the Polish prince Boleslaus I.
During the Middle Ages it was a member of the Six Cities' Alliance of the Upper Lusatian cities of Görlitz, Zittau, Löbau, Kamenz, Lauban and Bautzen.
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/ba/bautzen.html   (229 words)

  
 Saxony
In 1831 the canons of the cathedral of Bautzen elected Bishop Mauermann as cathedral dean of Bautzen.
The convent of Marienstern, in the Wendic district of Lusatia, that was founded in the middle of the thirteenth century, and the convent of Marienthal in the German section, that was founded before 1234, have done much to preserve Catholic life in Lusatia.
The governmental department of Erfurt is an almost entirely Protestant district in which, during the nineteenth century, scattered Catholics settled near districts which had preserved their faith amid the storms of the Reformation era; these districts are the Eichsfeld and a part of the population of Erfurt and its vicinity.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/saxony.html   (7900 words)

  
 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Bautzen (D)
Bautzen is situated at an altitude of 204 m on a plateau above the river Spree in eastern Saxony.
Bautzen is the administrative seat of the district of the same name and has a population of about 42,100 (2004).
In 1346 Bautzen was one of six towns that founded the "Oberlausitzer Sechsstädtebund" (Bautzen, Zittau, Görlitz, Kamenz, Löbau and Lauban (Lubań, PL)).
www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-1854.htm   (541 words)

  
 Bautzen
Bautzen is a city in the east of Saxony, Germany, and capital of the same-named district.
Bautzen is the center of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in Lusatia.
In 1018 the Peace of Bautzen between the German city and the Polish duchy was signed.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/b/ba/bautzen.html   (104 words)

  
 Meissen (district)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Riesa-Großenhain, Kamenz, the urban district Dresden, the districts Weißeritzkreis, Freiberg, Mittweida and Döbeln.
The district was ruled by the Wettin dynasty.
In 1990 the old district borders were restored, and in 1996 parts of the district Dresden-Land were added to the district to give it its current size.
www.tocatch.info /en/Meissen_(district).htm   (212 words)

  
 B (4)
clickable map of basel land districts (switzerland)
city of aschaffenburg (unterfranken district, bavaria, germany)
district, county and municipal flags (bavaria, germany)
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 Bautzen - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bautzen (pronounced [ˈbautsn̩], listen, until 1868: Budissin; Upper Sorbian Budyšin; Lower Sorbian: Budyšyn ;Polish: Budziszyn [buˈdʑiʃɨn], listen; Czech Budyšín) is a city in the east of Saxony, Germany, and capital of the eponymous district.
There are four museums including the Stadtmuseum Bautzen (lit.
the Bautzen city Museum) and the Sorbisches Museum, lit.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bautzen   (322 words)

  
 Bautzen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bautzen is often regarded as the unofficial, but historical capital of Upper Lusatia, and it is a cultural center of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority.
Excavations show that the Bautzen region was already inhabited in the late Stone Age.
In the east: Burk, Niederkaina, Basankwitz, Nadelwitz, Auritz, Jenkwitz-West, Strehla (Bautzen)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bautzen   (721 words)

  
 Annaberg - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the Czech Republic and the districts of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Stollberg and Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis.
The district of Annaberg was established in 1874.
The district is located in the western Ore Mountains on the Czech border.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Annaberg   (346 words)

  
 District
It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the Czech Republic and the districts of Sächsische Schweiz, Kamenz, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis and Löbau-Zittau.
The district was established in 1994 by merging the former districts of Bautzen and Bischofswerda.
A district ("amphoe") is a subdivision of a Province ("changwat") in Thailand.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/Di/District.html   (4778 words)

  
 SAXONY - Online Information article about SAXONY
The Erzgebirge is also the rainiest district, 272 to 332 in.
Linen is manufactured chiefly in the mountains of Lusatia, where the looms are still to some extent found in the homes of the weavers.
town and district of Leipzig, and hats and pianofortes at Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAR_SCY/SAXONY.html   (4776 words)

  
 Cunewalde - Informationen in Englisch
The village Cunewalde is located in the idyllic valley surrounded by the mountain range of the legendary Czorneboh (561m/1795,2 feet) and the Bieleboh (499m/1596,8 feet) in the middle of the Oberlausitzer hilly country between the cities Bautzen and Löbau.
The districts of Cunewalde, which were founded at different times, are situated at the bottom of the mountains.
In 1320 at the town of Bautzen a fief letter was issued to Peter von Kopperitz.
www.cunewalde.de /engl.html   (1075 words)

  
 Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
Thus 65% of the respondents lived in the same or the neighbouring district as that which their mother derived from, 79% in the same district as their father's birthplace.
This is an extension of the inter-generational pattern, with 75% of the parents of the respondents having married a partner from the same or neighbouring district.
Given that 90% of the respondents were born within the Sorbian area and a further 3% moved to live in the area before the age of four, the degree of endogamy is discernible.
www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/jezik/euromosaic-sorbian_survey.html   (4866 words)

  
 U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Germany: Language in everyday life
The Danish language is spoken in Schleswig-Holstein, mainly in the rural districts of Rendsburg/Eckernfoerde, Schleswig/Flensburg, Nordfriesland and the city of Flensburg.
North Frisian (Friisk) is spoken in Schleswig-Holstein in the rural district of North Frisia (Nordfriesland).
Sater or East Frisian (Seeltersk) is spoken in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in the villages of Ramsloh, Struecklingen and Scharrel in the district of Cloppenburg.
www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=57&TID=6   (7233 words)

  
 familytravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bautzen celebrated 1000 years of its existence in 2002.
The 17 towers, bastions and a city wall that is almost completely preserved in its original state, lend the city a distinctive Medieval atmosphere.
If you want to stay in the area Zittau and Bautzen are very pretty towns to explore, and Hubertusbaude Familotel, Trixi Park and Wurschen Manor House are great places to stay with children.
www.familytravel.com /Europe/Saxony.asp   (2897 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Spree
Köpenick KÖPENICK [Köpenick], district of Berlin, E Germany, at the confluence of the Spree and Dahme rivers.
Spandau SPANDAU [Spandau], district of Berlin, Germany, at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers.
It is a canal port and a major industrial district of Berlin.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Spree   (576 words)

  
 Sorbian in Germany
Bautzen, the district capital of Upper Lusatia is the centre of Sorbian life.
Upper Lusatia, covering the districts of Bautzen and Kamenz, has six Sorbian secondary schools: four secondary schools in the Sorbian Catholic district of Kamenz and two in the district of Bautzen.
The Sorbische Institut in Bautzen and its branch office in Cottbus are the successors of the former Institut für sorbische Volksforschung der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR.
www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_sorbian_in_germany.htm   (7520 words)

  
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It is primarily the cultural institutions found in the cities of Bautzen, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau and Zittau that shape the image of this region.
The identity of the city of Görlitz is tied to its close relationship with its Sister City, Zgorzelec, and to the exceptionally high number of historically significant buildings.
The Sorb Museum of Bautzen - Serbski muzej - provides in its exhibition an overview of the history, culture and the way of life of the Sorb people from its roots up to the present time.
www.smwk.sachsen.de /en/kf/kunst/kulturraeume/1634.htm   (1135 words)

  
 The Sorbs or Wendish People
The first of their foreign conquerors was Charles, one of Charlemagne's sons, who defeated the Wends and burned Bautzen in 806; by the year 1100 the Wends had been subjugated.
Source materials on the Texas Wends are to be found in the Concordia Historical Institute, St Louis, Mo., and the Texas District Archives of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod in Austin.
The book is organized by date of emigration, then by province, district and village emigrated from and then family names are listed along with first names and ages.
members.aol.com /BeallComp/wends.htm   (2605 words)

  
 Frank Engel - Germany: Bautzen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bautzen - after WW2 part of the new founded rail-district Cottbus and in times of Cold War well-known for the jail for political prisoners, Bautzen was a hot spot of class 52 for a long time.
More and more substituted by diesel-locomotives steam was reduced to branch-line duties, but a number of locomotives were in service until spring of 1988.
Meeting of two class 44 locomotives in Bautzen: While 44.2661-5 is going into the shed, 44.1616-0 is prepairing for heating service at the station.
www.frank-engel.de /d_bz_e.htm   (202 words)

  
 keyless ignition system, accommodates, apartments, saxony, budapest, miraflores, reservation, overlook, ideal, new york ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With the deep blue waters of the atlantic at your feet and soaring azure sky above, cascading waterfalls and fields of wildflowers this destination is ideal for those with a spirit of adventure.
Originally budapest fewo pension unterkunft had 10 districts after coming into existence upon the unification of the three cities in 1873.
Ritchie, living in a time when the appalachians had opened up to outside influence, was university educated and ultimately moved to new york city, where she made a number of classic recordings of the family repertoire and published an important compilation of these songs.
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 Polizei Sachsen - Table of addresses of the weapons authorities(rural district and district- free towns) in the Free ...
Polizei Sachsen - Table of addresses of the weapons authorities(rural district and district- free towns) in the Free State of Saxony
Table of addresses of the weapons authorities(rural district and district- free towns) in the Free State of Saxony
In the following the addresses of the rural districts and the district-free towns are mentioned (phone - and fax numbers of the responsible clerk) as the authorities dealing with the gun laws:
www.polizei.sachsen.de /zentral_eng/2183.htm   (70 words)

  
 Deutsche Wappen (Gemeindewappen Kreiswappen) - German Civic Heraldry - BAUTZEN
The area around Bautzen has been inhabited for many years and there has been a village since the 7th century.
Being a border town, Bautzen was ruled by German, Polish and Bohemian rulers for many centuries, until 1635 when it became part of Sachsen and thus Germany.
It is not known when Bautzen received city rights, but already in 1200 it had a clear urban character, and due to the incorporation of some villages in 1250 it became a large city.
www.ngw.nl /int/dld/b/bautzen.htm   (279 words)

  
 Bautzen Germany Holiday Inn Bautzen Hotel Discounts
Bautzen in the comfort and charm of one of the 157 guest rooms and 13 suites with your choice of one king or two double beds.
With its towers and winding alleyways, the cathedral, castle and town fortification, it is easy to see how Bautzen became associated to this name.
Bautzen is also the capital of the Sorbians and therefore the centre of Sorbian culture and traditions.
www.destinationcoupons.com /Germany/Bautzen/hotel_hi/inn.asp   (366 words)

  
 Selected Events 2006 - Consulate Leipzig Germany
September 26, 2006 Sixty high school students from the local Schiller and Sorbs Gymnasium, along with Bautzen residents, attended the “finissage” of the paper show, “Louis Armstrong,” which had been on display at the Bautzen public library for the month of September.
This year's participating 10th and 11th graders proved to be amazingly eloquent in English when answering factual, interpretative and creative questions on the books, and they all attested to the friendly and creative character of the competition.
The city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal is the birthplace a well-known German author on American west themes, Karl May. The show was supplemented with archival material from the first wave of immigrants who left the Hohenstein region for St. Louis in the 19th century.
usembassy.state.gov /leipzig/programs_events_2006.html   (7727 words)

  
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Major Ogon-Doganovskii’s 2nd Pskov Battalion, though, was in the summer of 1815 quartered in Dombrova in the Sokoly District of Bialystok Province and for winter moved to Rzhishchevo in the Kiev District of Kiev Province.
In the summer months of 1826 and 1827 they were sent on labor details, first to the settlement region of the Emperor of Austria’s Grenadier Regiment and then to that of the King of Prussia’s Grenadier Regiment, returning for the winter to their quarters in Belyi-Bor.
In January of 1833 a Highest Order was issued by which certain regiments, among them the numbered jäger regiments, were to be disbanded and in their place the regiments of the first five corps were to be made up of four active battalions with a non-combatant company and two reserve battalions with two non-combatant sections.
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