Thuringia
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| Capital: | Erfurt |
| Area: | 16,171 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 2,411,387 |
| pop. density: | 148 people/km² |
| Website: | thueringen.de |
| ISO 3166-2: | DE-TH |
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| Minister-president: | Dieter Althaus (CDU) |
| Ruling party: | CDU |
| Next voting: | 2009 |
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Thuringia (German Thüringen) is a Bundesland of Germany. It lies in central Germany and is with an area of 16.251 km² the sixth, and with 2.45 million inhabitants the fifth smallest state in Germany. The capital is Erfurt.
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[edit] History
Main article: History of Thuringia
- 1920 the Grand Duchy Saxe-Weimar; the Duchies Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; the Principalities Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Greiz and Gera (Principality) united to the Free State Thuringia.
- 1949 Thuringia became with Erfurt a new state of the DDR
- 1952 It became divided in three Bezirke (Erfurt, Gera and Suhl)
- 1990 Thuringia became a German Bundesland
[edit] Geography
Thuringia borders on the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Hesse. The most conspicuous geographical feature of Thuringia is the Thuringia Forest (Thüringer Wald). In the northwest Thuringia includes a small part of the Harz mountains. The Saale river runs through Jena. The biggest mountain in Thuringia is with 982m the Großer Beerberg in the Thuringia Forest.
[edit] List of Minister-Presidents of Thuringia
- 1945: Hermann Brill
- 1945 - 1947: Rudolf Paul
- 1947 - 1952: Werner Eggerath
- 1990 - 1992: Josef Duchac
- 1992 - 2003: Bernhard Vogel (CDU)
- since 2003: Dieter Althaus (CDU)
