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Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Editor of Contemporary Europe: A Geographical Analysis.
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The state of Saxony was re-created in the process of the reunification of East Germany with West Germany in 1990 from the former East German Bezirke (districts) of Dresden, Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt), and Leipzig, along with a small part of Cottbus district. The East German districts had themselves been created in 1952 from historic Saxony, an important region in German history for nearly 2,000 years, particularly so since the 15th century. Saxony and its capital, Dresden, prospered from the 16th to the 18th century before their relative importance within Germany waned with the rise of Brandenburg-Prussia and Berlin. The people of Leipzig are justly proud of the key role that the massive but peaceful demonstrations in the city in late 1989 played in toppling East Germany’s communist dictatorship and ultimately opening up the opportunity for German unification.

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