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Magdeburg

Magdeburg is a city on the Elbe and the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Otto I made it a centre of his rule and raised it to an archbishopric in 968, and its town law, Magdeburg law, was adopted by hundreds of towns across central and eastern Europe. Its sack in 1631 was one of the worst massacres of the Thirty Years' War.

Magdeburg
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NatangiansPrince-Bishopric of BrandenburgArchbishopric of MagdeburgPrince-Bishopric of MeissenPrince-Bishopric of MerseburgPrince-Bishopric of NaumburgDuchy of Greater PolandCounty of BarbyDuchy of MagdeburgKingdom of WestphaliaKingdom of Poland (1916-1918)

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