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Jena

Jena is a university city on the Saale river in Thuringia, Germany. Its university, founded in 1558, made it a centre of German philosophy and literature around 1800. On 14 October 1806 Napoleon defeated the Prussians near the city at the Battle of Jena. From the nineteenth century Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott made Jena a centre of the optical and glass industries.

Jena
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Duchy of Saxe-WeimarDuchy of Saxe-EisenachDuchy of Saxe-JenaDuchy of Saxe-EisenbergKingdom of PrussiaKingdom of SaxonyPrincipality of ErfurtFree State of Thuringia

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