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Bautzen (inhabited place) |
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| Lat: 51 11 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.1833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 014 26 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 14.4333 decimal degrees |
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Note: The eastern German city of Bautzen is located on a granite elevation above the Spree river some 32 miles east northeast of Dresden. The site was first settled by Slavs under the name Budyšin, and was the location of the Peace of Bautzen between the German king Henry II and the Polish king Boleslaw I in 1018. It passed to Germany in 1033, then to Bohemia in 1319, and to Saxony in 1635. It became the capital of the Lusatian cities in 1346, and remains the cultural and political center for the western Slavic people called the Lusatian Sorbs (Wends) to this day. In 1813 a tremendous battle in which Napoleon's troops defeated a Russian-Prussian army was fought here. Surviving historic architecture includes the Ortenburg Castle built 1483-1486, and St. Peter's Church built between 1220 and 1497, which since 1523 has been shared by Protestants and Roman Catholics. The city's industries include textile, machinery, and electrotechnical equipment manufacture, papermaking, iron founding, and the production of vehicles .The calculated population for 2005 was 41,606. |
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Bautzen (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded by Slavs in 10th century |
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| cultural center (C) |
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for Lusatian Sorbs, a West Slavic people called Wends or Domowina; site of two institutes for Sorbian research |
| battlefield (H) |
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of famous battle where French under Napoleon I defeated Russo-Prussian army in 1813 |
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