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Saar (river)
The Saar is a river of north-eastern France and western Germany, about 246 kilometres long, which rises in the Vosges and flows north past Saarbrücken to join the Moselle near Trier. Its valley and the surrounding coal basin gave their name to the Saar region, separated from Germany under the League of Nations from 1920 to 1935 and under French control after 1945. Today it is the core of the German state of Saarland.
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