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Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Editor of Contemporary Europe: A Geographical Analysis.
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Saxony-Anhalt had its origins in the principality of Anhalt, which was a duchy from 1863 to 1918 and a state of Germany from 1918 until 1945, when it became part of Saxony-Anhalt. The latter was a newly created state of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) from 1949 until 1952, at which time it was broken up into the Bezirke (districts) of Magdeburg and Halle. Upon the reunification of East Germany with West Germany in 1990, the post-World War II state of Saxony-Anhalt was reconstituted to include former Magdeburg and most Halle districts.

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