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City-port on the River Elbe; capital of Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. In the 13th century, Magdeburg received a charter and prospered
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
A town and bishopric situated on the Elbe. The town, mentioned in documents from the early 9th c., was situated
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The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
is the capital city (Landeshauptstadt) of Land Sachsen-Anhalt of the Federal Republic (see Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Formerly in the
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
(archbishopric) Established by Otto I as a sign of Ottonian expansion into eastern territories, Magdeburg became an archbishopric in 968
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
In 1524 an evangelical constitution for the churches of Magdeburg, a north German archiepiscopal city on the river Elbe, was
