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Dresden

Dresden

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A city in eastern Germany on the Elbe, known for museums and its rebuilt historic centre after wartime damage
  • proper noun
  • /ˈdrɛzdən/
: Dresde
  • And I studied applied mechanics in Dresden, I do assure you.
  • Dresden Codex
  • Universität Dresden
  • Dresden Academy

This is something that you think only happens in movies, but the biggest jewelry heist in history took place recently in Dresden museum.

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Dresden main

Etymology

The word Dresden comes from an old Slavic name Drežďany, which means 'people of the forest'. So the city name remembers the people who first lived near the woods there.