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  Frankfurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frankfurt was one of the host cities for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
Frankfurt Airport ranks among the world's top ten airports and serves 304 flight destinations in 110 countries.Depending whether total passengers or flights are used to measure, it ranks as the second or third busiest in Europe alongside London Heathrow Airport and Paris' Charles de Gaulle.
Frankfurt is also known for having one of the largest red light districts in Germany in vicinity of the Hauptbahnhof (main railway station).
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Frankfurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
From 855 to 1792 Frankfurt was the electoral city for the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Frankfurt is also home to many cultural and educational institutions, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, many museums, most of them lined up along the Main river on the Museumsufer (museum embankment), and a large botanical garden, the Palmengarten.
Frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but it suffered from the plague that was brought to the city by refugees.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Frankfurt   (2290 words)

  
 Frankfurt: History
Frankfurt accepted the Reformation in 1530, and was a member of the Schmalkaldic League.
After the dissolution (1806) of the Holy Roman Empire, Frankfurt was included in the ecclesiastic principality of Regensburg and Aschaffenburg, created by Napoleon I for Karl Theodor von Dalberg.
The principality was converted in 1810 into the grand duchy of Frankfurt, also under Dalberg.
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