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    Pölten since 1997. The name St Pölten is derived from Hippolytus of Rome. The city was renamed to Sankt Hippolyt, then St Polyt and finally St Pölten...
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    are Amstetten, Klosterneuburg, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which has been the capital of Lower Austria since 1986, replacing Vienna...
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    spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh...
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    Rijeka (redirect from Sankt Veit am Fluß)
    damages. As a consequence - most of the torpedo production was moved to Sankt Pölten in Austria, further away from the frontlines. The city was again attacked...
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    in 1986, Tulln applied to become capital of Lower Austria, although Sankt Pölten eventually won. An important sugar producing plant, Agrana Austria, is...
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    mayors of St. Gallen German, sometimes spelled in full as Sankt Gallen, pronounced [saŋkt ˈɡalən] ; French: Saint-Gall; Italian: San Gallo; Romansh:...
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    Pölten. However the terminus of the line at Mariazell station lies around 1 km (0.6 mi) north of the city center in the municipal territory of Sankt Sebastian...
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  • Tegernsee Abbey in Bavaria. The same brothers also founded the monastery of Sankt Pölten after the defeat of the Avars in 791. It is not certain, however, that...
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    of 100,000 florins, Matthias seized the town of Mautern in Styria and Sankt Pölten in Lower Austria from Friedrich Mauerkircher, one of the two candidates...
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  • game MVP, Danube Dragons QB Germaine Race, 2010 AFL Offense POY, St. Polten Invaders RB. Former NFL player Kyle Newhall-Caballero, 2012 AFL League MVP,...
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    Capital: Klagenfurt Lower Austria Governor: Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) Capital: Sankt Pölten Salzburg Governor: Haslauer (ÖVP) Capital: Salzburg Styria Governor:...
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    nearly 400 years. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the area was first invaded by the Germanic Rugii which made this region part of their "Rugiland"....
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    a referendum to assert its sovereignty for 13 March 1938, but Germany invaded Austria the day before in order to prevent the vote taking place. Political...
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  • Otto Zoff (category People from Sankt Pölten)
    a military official. When the boy was aged 2 the family relocated to Sankt Pölten, the first substantial town along the main railway line from Vienna travelling...
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    into Italy. As the Ostrogoths left, another Germanic tribe, the Gepids, invaded the city. In 539, it was retaken by the Byzantines. In 577, some 100,000...
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    extended by a few square kilometers. Since the Sammarinese policy was not to invade or to use war to obtain new territories, it was by means of purchases and...
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    of war calling all the Spaniards to fight against the French invaders. The city was invaded on 24 May 1823 by a French army—the so-called Hundred Thousand...
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    into its south and north respectively in 1964. A decade later, Turkey invaded Cyprus following Greece's successful attempt to take over the island. The...
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    1333 to 1341, during the Wars of Scottish Independence. When the English invaded Scotland in 1298, Edward I of England chose not to enter Edinburgh but...
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    Church assumed power in the city, coinciding with the first waves of the invading Germanic peoples (Suebi, Vandals, Alans, and later Visigoths). After the...
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    the buildings and properties were pillaged, sacked or destroyed by the invaders. During the 19th century, the Liberal movement introduced new changes into...
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    rebels, but the revolt was eventually suppressed. In 1798, the French invaded the island and expelled the Order. After the Maltese rebelled, French troops...
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    against its previous alliance with the Axis powers and was subsequently invaded. Podgorica was bombed over 80 times throughout the course of the war. The...
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    much of the existing power structure. Following the Umayyad conquest, invaders were ethnically diverse, and available evidence suggests that in the area...
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    Emperor Peter the Great of Russia took advantage of the situation and invaded. As a result of the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723, the Safavids were forced...
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    24 June 1478, with the name "Real de Las Palmas". Rejón was head of the invading Castilian army, which then engaged in war with the locals. The war began...
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    also resolved the Monaco succession crisis. In 1943, the Italian Army invaded and occupied Monaco, forming a fascist administration. In September 1943...
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    of the open and fertile Mur valley, Graz was historically a target of invaders, such as the Hungarians under Matthias Corvinus in 1481, and the Ottoman...
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    Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders. On 20 May, a rally called "Getting Rid of Soviet Heritage" took place...
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    network, which was equally convenient for invaders. In the second half of the 3rd century, Ancyra was invaded in rapid succession by the Goths coming from...
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