Bordering Countries
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Austria
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Belgium
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Czechia
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Denmark
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France
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Luxembourg
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Netherlands
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Poland
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Switzerland
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Bordering Seas and Oceans
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Baltic Sea
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North Sea
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Rivers
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Elbe
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Rhine
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Danube
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Mountain Range
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Alps
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Largest Cities by Population
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3,677,472
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Berlin
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1,853,935
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Hamburg
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1,487,708
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Munich
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1,073,096
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Cologne
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759,224
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Frankfurt am Main
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Other Cities
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City that doesn't exist, according to the Internet
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Bielefeld
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Former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Bonn
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Home of a football team called "Borussia 09"
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Dortmund
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City famous for hosting the post-World War II trials
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Nuremberg
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Cradle of the automobile industry
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Stuttgart
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Regions
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Largest German state by land area
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Bavaria
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Historical region divided between Poland and Germany
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Pomerania
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Modern Land whose territory was administered by the League of Nations between 1920 and 1936
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Saarland
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Monuments
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Castle built in honor of Richard Wagner that inspired Walt Disney
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Neuschwanstein Castle
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Palace in Potsdam commissioned by Frederick the Great, translating to "Carefree" in French
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Sanssouci
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Tallest church in the world
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Ulm Minster
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Natural Wonders
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Lake at the border between Switzerland and Germany
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Constance Lake
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Largest German island, famous for its chalk cliffs
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Rügen Island
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Famous People
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Aachen: This emperor was enthroned there
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Charlemagne
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Leipzig: This composer, one of the "Three Bs" is buried there
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J.S. Bach
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Kiel: This father of quantum theory, whose constant is denoted by h , taught here
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Max Planck
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Pieces of Art
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Bayreuth: This music drama is performed annually in this city as the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle
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Die Walküre
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Bremen: This Grimms' fairy tale tells the story of four animals coming to this town
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Town Musicians of Bremen
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East Berlin: Daniel Brühl stars in this film where a mother falls into a coma just before the Wall falls
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Good Bye, Lenin!
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Battles
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9: Major Roman defeat by Germanic tribes
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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
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1945: Aerial destruction of a city
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Bombing of Dresden
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Underrated map though
Konstanz should not be accepted. It's the German spelling of the city of Constance, as in Germany no one refers to the lake as "Lake Konstanz", the German spelling is irrelevant as a type-in.
However, the time limit was luckily generous enough to always try different spellings, so I managed 41/41 points in the end.
I guess either make German answers always work or never? (I'd prefer making them count)
The town asked for is Bremen, but it doesn't work. Question should ask for the title of the story, not the location.
Note - Bach was a composer not a compositor !
The November Revolution was 1918. Goodbye Lenin plays during the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was 1989. Though it also happened in November, the "November revolution" is the one in 1918
nominated
2. If you accept German names in other questions, like Nürnberg for Nuremberg or München for Munich, you have to accept it in all other questions. So please accept Pommern for Pomerania.
3. The Ring of the Nibelung isn't perform annualy. There are years, where it isn't performed at all. And why just Walküre??? Why not the whole cycle? Or other parts as well (Rheingold, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung)?
Also it is not the point knowing where the city lies but to answer the question and these can be the answers for that question.
It's commonly referred to as varian disaster or varian defeat. Or if you want the german name it's Varusschlacht
I tried to improve the maps of this series as much as possible to keep them beautiful and pleasant to fill out. For example, by adding descriptions directly in SVG to avoid scrolling every 2 seconds.
Why not keep Jetpunk's standard green? Because I tried it and it’s ugly and not very intelligible for this kind of map in my opinion (you end up with just one big green blob). I agree to some extent about the color of the castles however, which I could make greener.
You're also not the first to forget the bordering countries, maybe I'll add a 'don't forget' mention in the description? I don't see any other way to make it more obvious.