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 | | Saarland's higher education institutions, the university, the polytechnics, the art college and the music academy, are concentrated in the city and many students come from neighbouring France. |
 | | The name of the state's second largest city, Saarlouis, reminds us that here, about 300 years ago, the French King Louis XIV built a fortress to defend his conquests in western Germany. |
 | | The Ruhr district is an a huge web of towns and cities with a total population of about 7.5 million, and it is Germany's, indeed Europe's, largest industrial region. |
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