City

• Aachen

  A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's...

• Bremen

  A city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the...

• Bremerhaven

  A port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea;...

• Chemnitz

  A city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile...

• Dortmund

  An industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as...

• Dresden

  A city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British...

• Leipzig

  A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center.

• Solingen

  A city in west central Germany noted for cutlery.

• Weimar

  A German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar...

• Bonn

  A city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949...

• Cologne

  A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during...

• Braunschweig

  A city in central Germany.

• Dusseldorf

  An industrial city in western Germany on the Rhine.

• Essen

  A city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr.

• Frankfurt on the Main

  A German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center.

• Halle

  A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League...

• Hamburg

  A port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the...

• Hanover

  A port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League.

• Lubeck

  A city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic...

• Mannheim

  A city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers.

• Nuremberg

  A city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46).

• Potsdam

  A city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945.

• Rostock

  A city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic...

• Stuttgart

  A city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture.

• Wurzburg

  A city of south central Germany.

River

• Danube

  The 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the...

• Neckar

  A river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine.

• Oder

  A European river; flows into the Baltic Sea.

• Rhine

  A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into...

Geographical Area

• Prussia

  A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern...

• Rhineland

  A picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river.

• Ruhr

  A major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern ...

• Thuringia

  A historical region of southern Germany.

State

• Bavaria

  A state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory.

• Lower Saxony

  A state in northwestern Germany.

Also contains

• Norse mythology

  The mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment...

• German

  The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic.

• Berlin

  Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany.

• Weissbier

  A general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy...

• Frisian Islands

  A chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending...

• panzer

  An armored vehicle or tank.

• liebfraumilch

  A sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany).

• Black Forest

  A hilly forest region in southwestern Germany.

• Palatinate

  A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.

• Pietism

  17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and...

• Oktoberfest

  An autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer.

• Hameln

  A town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of...

• Schadenfreude

  Delight in another person's misfortune.

• swastika

  The official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at...

• Constance

  A lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the...