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Eisleben

Also known as Lutherstadt Eisleben

Eisleben, officially Lutherstadt Eisleben, is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, east of the Harz. Martin Luther was born there in 1483 and died there in 1546, and the houses of his birth and death are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The town belonged to the counts of Mansfeld and was for centuries a centre of copper mining in the Mansfeld region.

Eisleben
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Eisleben. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/eisleben
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