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This city has two possible spellings in English, both equally valid. It gave its name to a British royal dynasty in the 1700s, and is the capital of Lower Saxony. | Hanover | 92%
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The Rote Armee Fraktion, the so-called Baader Meinhof gang, staged multiple terrorist attacks here. A city with a major European airport, its football team are called Eintracht. | Frankfurt | 85%
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This small city was a focal point of the German Enlightenment and home to the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Liszt, Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Its name is used to refer to the German republic between 1918-1923; the constitution was signed in the city and it is here that the constituent assembly of the government would meet. | Weimar | 85%
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The football team of this city is called Its Arminia [city name]. There is a running joke that this city does not really exist. | Bielefeld | 77%
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This major port is an external exclave of a German city-state in the same area of the country. Their names are linked, as its name means "Port of [the other city]". | Bremerhaven | 77%
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One of the country's oldest cities, dating back to the 1st century BC. The birthplace of Beethoven, it took on an important role in 1949. Its football team are rubbish, though! | Bonn | 69%
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This city's football team, Dynamo, reached the semi-final of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup. The Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic group with their own language, reside in this area of Germany. It lies on the river Elbe. | Dresden | 69%
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The football team of this modest-sized town in Rheinland-Pfalz have won four championships and two German Super Cups. 45,000 NATO personnel are also based in the area. | Kaiserslautern | 69%
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Formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, its name comes from the Sorbian language. The city physician wrote an important publication on metalworking, De Re Metallica, in the 1500s. It is 25 miles south of Colditz Castle and about 25 miles from the Czech border. | Chemnitz | 62%
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This is a main city of the Ruhr, the largest metropolis in Germany, which comprises many towns and cities. A heavy industrial area, it was the target of the Dambusters raid and much more bombing in World War II. | Dortmund | 62%
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This Bavarian city on the Danube is the headquarters of Audi. Charles de Gaulle was imprisoned here during World War I. | Ingolstadt | 62%
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This city, not far from the Dutch border, has a football team called Borussia, which is the Latin word for Prussia. They won the 1975 UEFA Cup. | Mönchengladbach | 62%
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In 1534, an apocalyptic Anabaptist sect took power in this western city-state. They claimed all property, burned all books except the Bible, called it the "New Jerusalem" and required all citizens to be naked as preparation for the Second Coming. The city's name also has a link to a TV programme. | Münster | 62%
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Great thinkers such as Schiller, Hegel, Schlegel and von Humboldt all resided in this east German town. Its football team, Carl Zeiss, bear the name of the local optics-making company. | Jena | 54%
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The birthplace of Einstein, this city lies on the Danube in Baden-Württemberg and has the tallest church in the world. It was also the home town of a fictional Monty Python character with an extremely long name. | Ulm | 54%
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An old settlement thought to date back to the 9th century, it was an important city in the Middle Ages. In the chaotic aftermath of World War I, it became a free state. Revolutionaries took it over by force and attempted (unsuccessfully) to set up a Soviet republic. It also has a different name in English. | Braunschweig | 46%
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