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As early as the beginning of the 13th century, the city belonged to the Hanseatic League (an association of Northern European trading cities from the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era).

Stuttgart is home to six Fraunhofer universities (the Fraunhofer Society is a German research organization with 75 institutes spread throughout Germany) - this is the second-largest number of research institutions in Germany after Dresden.

The Colosseum was a gift to the people of Rome.

Potsdam is the capital of the German state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region.

Königsberg became a Polish fief for 201 years.

After the conference, the palace was opened to the public.

Legend has it that Glastonbury was the birthplace of Christianity in the British Isles.

The towers, although a status symbol for their founders, served mainly defensive functions.

From the beginning of the 20th century, Ghent had about 15 large hotels, the Valentino cinema hall, where films were screened as early as 1901.

In the 20th century, Bremen, a liberal and socially democratic city, lost its autonomy under Hitler's rule.