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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Berlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Berlin, built on sand, is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the north of Germany.
Berlin has 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005) on a surface of 891.75 square kilometres, thus, the population density of the region amounts to 3,811 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Berlin was devastated by bombing raids during World War II, and many of the old buildings that escaped the bombs were eradicated in the 1950s and 1960s in both West and East.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Berlin   (3160 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Berlin Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Berlin is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,389,450 inhabitants (as of 2002; down from 4.5 million before World War II, and generally on the decline since German reunification in 1990).
Berlin was devastated in the bombardments during World War II, and many of the old buildings that were left were eradicated in the 1950s and 1960s in both the West and the East in overambitious architecture programs, especially in order to build new living or business quarters.
Berlin's annual Carnival of Cultures, a multi-ethnic street parade, and Chistopher Street Day celebrations (Central Europe's largest gay-lesbian pride event) are openly supported by the city's government and visited by millions of Berliners each year such as the Loveparade which last took place in 2003.
www.ipedia.com /berlin.html   (1700 words)

  
 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin is in the center of East Germany.
The Berlin Wall is opened and five million people come to Berlin to celebrate the end of the Wall, the end of the Cold War, the end of Communism, and the reunification of Germany.
Lost Border: Photographs of the Iron Curtain The landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall and the subsequent reconstruction of central Berlin.
www.andreas.com /berlin.html   (3294 words)

  
 Frankfurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1924 Ludwig Landmann became the first Jewish Mayor of the city, and led a significant expansion during the following years.
Frankfurt has the second largest Jewish community (after Berlin) in Germany.
Only the Berlin integrated public transport system (VBB) is larger.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frankfurt   (3507 words)

  
 Learn more about Berlin in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Learn more about Berlin in the online encyclopedia.
Berlin is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,389,450 inhabitants (as of 2002; down from 4.5 million before World War II, and on the decline since German reunification in 1990).
It is situated in the German state (Bundesland) Brandenburg, but constitutes a state of its own.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/be/berlin.html   (969 words)

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