• Peter of Zittau (Czech: Petr Žitavský; c. 1275–1339) was a Bohemian churchman and historian. Born in Zittau, he entered the Cistercian monastery of Aula...
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    corps of Karl Christoph von Schmettau in a brigade of ten squadrons. As Seydlitz's wing entered Lusatia, near the town of Zittau, the Austrians were present...
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    Speyer, and then toured Germany for two years, appearing at theatres in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen, Lucerne, Gera, and Frankfurt am Main. Schreck then joined...
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    and border between the Czech lands is also preserved in local dialects. Zittau (Czech: Žitava) and Ostritz (Czech: Ostřice) in modern south-eastern Saxony...
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    expander was built into a turntable manufactured by Phonotechnik Pirna/Zittau. The usual diameters of the holes on an EP record are 0.286 inches (7.26 mm)...
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    Breitenfeld (1631). In the early days of October 1631, he briefly occupied Zittau in Saxony before retreating to Bohemia which at the time faced a Saxon invasion...
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    2014. Pescheck, Christian A. (1837). Handbuch der Geschichte von Zittau, Volume 2. Zittau: in Commission der J. D. Schöpfischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung...
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    Prussia, who was retreating eccentrically (for commissariat reasons) at Zittau, inflicted a severe check upon him. The king retreated from Bohemia to Saxony...
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    aggravated murder of a Jew. The court had decided that Dolle should be broken von oben herab: the first stroke of the wheel should crush his chest (traditionally...
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    Lusatia, in the German Electorate of Saxony, circa 1680. He went to school in Zittau, where (according to his own account) he excelled in his studies and became...
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    The Zittau Mountains (southeastern tip of Upper Lusatia) The East Lusatian Hill Country and River Neisse region (on the Neisse from Görlitz to Zittau, north...
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  • tangential arm direct drive turntable manufactured by VEB Phonotechnik Pirna/Zittau in limited zero batch quantities only around 1989. The expander was based...
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    including in the foreign military hospitals in Leipzig, Wurzen, Großenhain, Zittau, Bautzen and Chemnitz. For this she was ridiculed by the military doctors...
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    Seifersdorf 35828 Reichenbach (Oberlausitz) 35829 Gersdorf, Saxony 3583 Zittau 3584 35841 Großschönau 35842 Niederoderwitz 35843 Hirschfelde 35844 Oybin...
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    Lusatian League, which consisted of Bautzen, Görlitz, Kamenz, Lubań, Löbau and Zittau. Around 1348 a Jewish woman, Adasse, was made a citizen of the town. In...
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    sinket", with a text by Ernst Heinrich Schwabe (1787–1818), a teacher from Zittau, to which August Harder published a melody 1808, different from "Seht, wie...
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    June 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2020. Maxwill, Peter (24 July 2019). "Warum uns der rassistische Anschlag von Wächtersbach aufrütteln muss" (in German). Der...
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    fell to the German-ruled Margraviate of Brandenburg, and Senftenberg and Zittau passed to the Polish-ruled Duchy of Jawor, however, several decades later...
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    Pontarlier, France La Valette du Var, France Tula, Russia Savona, Italy Zittau, Germany Friedrichsthal, Germany Georg Pictorius (c. 1500–1569), physician...
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    co-initiator of the university-based "Internationalen Hochschulinstituts Zittau" (IHI), founded in 1993 and now a subdivision of TU Dresden, and the start-up...
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  • Sint-Truiden. Horst Landrock (1904–1990) German clockmaker and collector, Zittau, Sammlung Landrock. Hans Apel (1905–1958), German watch and chronometer...
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  • paleontologist and ecological activist. Behmel, son of architect Paul Behmel of Zittau and grandson of photographer and entrepreneur Josef Behmel studied at the...
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    member of the Six Cities' Alliance of the Upper Lusatian cities of Görlitz, Zittau, Löbau, Kamenz, Lubań, and Bautzen. In 1429 and 1431 the town was unsuccessfully...
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    Sepulkralkultur von der Renaissancezeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. In: Denkmalpflege in Görlitz. Eine Schriftenreihe, Heft 14, Görlitz, Zittau 2005, 22–42....
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    it as having taken place in the land of Schwyz, or Schwyz and Uri (Peter of Zittau has Sweicz et Uherach). The name of Morgarten is recorded by Konrad...
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    gave him control of an important junction between Görlitz in the east and Zittau in the south. He anchored the far right end of his line in another wooded...
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    an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau in recognition of his service to the process of unifying Europe. In January...
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    by Otto von Kotzebue and met native people in Latin and Northern America. Christian Gottlieb Prieber, a lawyer and political utopian from Zittau, emigrated...
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    the major landscape units of Saxon Switzerland, Lusatian Highlands and Zittau Mountains to the east into one overarching unit, the Saxon Highlands and...
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    Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas), Neue Kirche (New Church) and Peterskirche (St. Peter). As director, he organized music for city functions such as town council...
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