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Greifswald
Greifswald is a university town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, near the Baltic coast. Founded near the Cistercian abbey of Eldena and granted town rights in 1250, it joined the Hanseatic League, and its university was founded in 1456. It was Swedish from 1648 to 1815, and the painter Caspar David Friedrich was born there.
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