|
The States of Germany | |
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| English Equivalents of Selected German Place-Names | |
|---|---|
| English | German |
| Baltic Sea | Ostsee |
| Bavaria | Bayern |
| Bavarian Forest | Bayerischer Wald |
| Black Forest | Schwarzwald |
| Bohemian Forest | Boehmer Wald |
| Cologne | Koeln |
| Constance, Lake | Bodensee |
| Danube | Donau |
| Hanover | Hannover |
| Hesse | Hessen |
| Lower Saxony | Niedersachsen |
| North Sea | Nordsee |
| Nuremberg | Nuernberg |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| Moselle | Mosel |
| Munich | Muenchen |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| Rhine | Rhein |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| Saxony | Sachsen |
| Saxony-Anhalt | Sachsen-Anhalt |
| Thuringia | Thueringen |
| Between 1918-1933, the Weimar
Repubic, Gemany consisted of these lands: |
| Anhalt |
| Baden |
| Bayern |
| Brandenburg |
| Braunschweig |
| Hannover |
| Hessen |
| Hohenzollern |
| Lippe |
| Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
| Nassau |
| Oldenburg |
| Ostpreussen |
| Pfalz |
| Pommern |
| Rheinland |
| Saar |
| Sachsen |
| Schlesien |
| Schleswig-Holstein |
| Thüringen |
| Westfalen |
| Westpreussen |
| Wuerttemberg. |
| Post WWII States Between 1945-1991, the German nations: the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany). The Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany) had no Bundesländer during this time, but was divided in to Bezirke, or districts named for the city which adminstered the area. |
| Rostock |
| Schwerin |
| Neubrandenburg |
| Magdeburg |
| Potsdam |
| Berlin |
| Frankfurt-an-der-Oder |
| Halle |
| Leipzig |
| Cottbus |
| Dresden |
| Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) |
| Gera |
| Suhl |
| Post WWII States Between 1945-1991, the German
nations: Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany) were- |
| Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| Bayern |
| Bremen |
| Hamburg |
| Hessen |
| Niedersachsen |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| Rheinland-Pfalz |
| Saarland |
| Schleswig-Holstein |
| West Berlin |
| Today's Bundesländer (states) |
| Ostpreussen (East Prussia) |
| Pommern |
| Schlesien (Silesia) |
| Westpreussen (West Prussia and Posen, are in Poland) |
| Elsass-Lothringen (France) |
| Alsace-Lorraine (France) |