germany

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    • oktoberfest - an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer
    • blenheim - the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession
    • battle of jena, jena - the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians
    • battle of lutzen, lutzen - a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed
    • battle of minden, minden - a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French
    • battle of rossbach, rossbach - a battle in the Seven Years' War (1757); Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated the armies of France and Austria
    • battle of teutoburger wald, teutoburger wald - a battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions
    • panzer - an armored vehicle or tank
    • hakenkreuz, swastika - the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction
    • german, german language, high german - the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
    • schadenfreude - delight in another person's misfortune
    • weissbier, wheat beer, white beer - a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent
    • liebfraumilch - a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany)
    • norse mythology - the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity
    • al tawhid, al-tawhid, divine unity - an Islamic terrorist cell that originated in Jordan but operates in Germany; goal is to attack Europe and Russia with chemical weapons
    • baader meinhof gang, baader-meinhof gang - a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977
    • association of islamic groups and communities, caliphate state, kaplan group - a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran
    • raf, red army faction - a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
    • pietism - 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
    • black forest, schwarzwald - a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
    • teuton - someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language
    • brownshirt - a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms
    • margrave - a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)
    • one million million million, trillion - the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros
    • quadrillion - the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros
    is an instance of: european country, european nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continent
    member holonym:
    • german - a person of German nationality
    • sorbian - a speaker of Sorbian
    belongs to:
    has:
    • buchenwald - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany
    • dachau - a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany
    • siegfried line - German fortifications facing the Maginot Line
    • lower saxony - a state in northwestern Germany
    • aachen, aix-la-chapelle, aken - a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
    • berlin, german capital - capital of Germany located in eastern Germany
    • bremen - a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea; in the Middle Ages it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League
    • bremerhaven - a port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea; has a deep natural harbor and is an important shipping center
    • chemnitz, karl-marx-stadt - a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing
    • dortmund - an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League
    • dresden - a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945
    • leipzig - a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center
    • solingen - a city in west central Germany noted for cutlery
    • weimar - a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933
    • bavaria - a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory
    • hamelin, hameln - a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper
    • bonn - a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
    • cologne, koln - a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League
    • braunschweig, brunswick - a city in central Germany
    • dusseldorf - an industrial city in western Germany on the Rhine
    • essen - a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr
    • frankfort, frankfurt, frankfurt on the main - a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center
    • halle, halle-an-der-saale - a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries
    • hamburg - a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League
    • hannover, hanover - a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League
    • lubeck - a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic League
    • mannheim - a city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers
    • nuremberg, nurnberg - a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)
    • potsdam - a city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945
    • rostock - a city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century
    • stuttgart - a city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture
    • wuerzburg, wurzburg - a city of south central Germany
    • rheinland, rhineland - a picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river
    • palatinate, pfalz - a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
    • preussen, prussia - a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland
    • ruhr, ruhr valley - a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany
    • thuringia - a historical region of southern Germany
    • frisian islands - a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland
    • bodensee, constance, lake constance - a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River
    • danau, danube, danube river - the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea
    • neckar, neckar river - a river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine
    • oder, oder river - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea
    • rhein, rhine, rhine river - a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea
    • ruhr, ruhr river - a tributary of the Rhine
    • saale, saale river - a river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River
    • weser, weser river - a river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the North Sea near Bremerhaven
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    same as: deutschland, federal republic of germany, frg

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