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Cologne (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 56 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.9333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 006 57 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 6.9500 decimal degrees |
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Note: The western German city of Cologne is situated on the west bank of the Rhine. The fourth-largest city in Germany, it serves the entire Rhine region as its historical, economic, and cultural center. The first settlement on the site was a Roman fortification. Franks captured it in 456. It became the seat of a powerful archbishop, and became independent in 1288. A member of the Hanseatic League, it declined in the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century. Prussia took it over in 1815. The heavy shipping traffic of the Rhine and the intersection of major east-west trade routes at the city caused it to recover and prosper. The inner city was almost entirely destroyed in World War II. The city has been rebuilt and continues as a commercial center. Some historic architecture survives, notables the great Gothic cathedral in the middle of the inner city, which was designated as a World Heritage site in 1996. Cologne has a wealth of museums and galleries, notably the Wallraf-Richartz and Ludwig museum complex, whose collection encompasses medieval art to modern works, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, and the Schnütgen Museum of medieval ecclesiastical art. Educational institutions include the University of Cologne, founded in 1388. The modern city has a highly diversified economy, and serves as a banking center as well as a manufacturing city, notably producing motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and the city's famous eau de cologne, made since the beginning of the 18th century. The population estimate for 2004 was 969,500. |
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| Köln (preferred,C,V,German,U,N)
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| Cologne (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Colonia (C,O)
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| Coln (C,O)
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| Keulen (C,V)
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............ | Dutch name |
| Augusta Ubiorum (NA,V)
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| Cöln (NA,V)
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| Colonia Claudia Agrippina (NA,V)
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| Koeln (NA,V)
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| Koln (C,U,English)
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| קלן (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Agrippina colonia (H,O)
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| Colonia Agrippina (H,V)
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............ | Roman, so-called from ca. 50 AD at request of Agrippina (wife of Claudius & mother of Nero) who was born here |
| Colonia Agrippinensis (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
| Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (H,V)
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| Oppidum (H,V)
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| Oppidum Ubiorum (H,V)
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............ | Roman name, referring to Ubii tribe who colonized site with Romans |
| Ubiopolis (H,O)
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| Ubiorum (H,V)
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Cologne (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled by Romans and German Ubii tribe in 1st century BCE, city wall built in 1180 |
| city (C) |
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| district capital (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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produces eau de cologne, textiles, chemicals, and electrical equipment |
| commercial center (C) |
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| archiepiscopal see (C) |
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established by Charlemagne in 785, archbishop was elector of empire from 1356, territories secularized in 1803 |
| university center (C) |
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founded 1388, dissolved in 1798 but refounded in 1919 |
| cultural center (C) |
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under archbishops, was famed medieval seat of art and learning, today noted for opera house and zoological and botanical gardens |
| episcopal see (H) |
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established in the 4th century, raised to archbishopric in 785 |
| capital (H) |
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of Postumus's empire comprising Gaul, Britain and Spain after 258 CE |
| colony (H) |
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of Roman veterans, status conferred in 50 CE |
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Via Belgica .......... (route) |
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