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Saxon Elbland

Dresden

Dresden is the capital of . It's often referred to locally as Elbflorenz, or "Florence on the Elbe", reflecting its location on the Elbe river and its historical role as a centre for the arts and beautiful architecture - much like in Italy.
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  • Email: presse@dresden.de
  • Type: City with 572,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany
  • Also known as: “Drezda”, “Elbflorenz”, and “Kreisfreie Stadt Dresden”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Semperoper and Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.

Theater building
Photo: Avda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden. It is also home to the Ballett.

Museum
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The in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It includes major Italian Renaissance works as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings.

Park
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The is a palatial complex with gardens in Dresden, . Designed by architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, it is one of the most important buildings of the Baroque period in Germany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blasewitz and Löbtau.

Suburb
Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa, CC0.
is a larger borough of Dresden, in the city's eastern centre on the Elbe river. It consists of seven quarters : is connected to the borough of north of the river Elbe by the Blue Wonder bridge, Johannstadt to the west, Striesen to the south, and Tolkewitz to the east.

Suburb
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is a quarter or Stadtteil in south-west Dresden, . It is part of the Stadtbezirk Cotta. It borders the quarters of , Cotta, , Naußlitz, Dolzschen, Plauen and Südvorstadt.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in central Dresden, Germany. A factory district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is known as the home of the founders of the artistic association known as Die Brücke. Its population is 9,887.

Dresden

Latitude
51.0493° or 51° 2′ 58″ north
Longitude
13.7381° or 13° 44′ 17″ east
Population
572,000
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
IATA airport code
DRS
United Nations Location Code
DE DRS
Open location code
9F3M2PXQ+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20833613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2935022
Wiki­data ID
Q1731
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dresden” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dresden”
  • Albanian: “Dresden”
  • Albanian: “Dresdeni”
  • Amharic: “ድረስደን”
  • Arabic: “درسدن”
  • Arabic: “دِرِسْدِن”
  • Arabic: “دريزدن”
  • Arabic: “دريسدن”
  • Arabic: “دِرَيسْدِن”
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  • Armenian: “Դրեզդեն”
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  • Bavarian: “Dresdn”
  • Belarusian: “Дрэздэн”
  • Bengali: “ড্রেসডেন”
  • Bosnian: “Dresden”
  • Breton: “Dresden”
  • Bulgarian: “Дрезден”
  • Burmese: “ဒရက်စဒန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Dresden”
  • Cebuano: “Dresden (kapital sa estado pederal)”
  • Cebuano: “Dresden”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Dresden”
  • Central Kurdish: “درێسدن”
  • Chechen: “Дрезден”
  • Chinese: “Dresden”
  • Chinese: “德列斯登”
  • Chinese: “德勒斯登”
  • Chinese: “德累斯頓”
  • Chinese: “德累斯頓市”
  • Chinese: “德累斯顿”
  • Chinese: “德累斯顿市”
  • Chuvash: “Дрезден”
  • Corsican: “Dresda”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Drezden”
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  • Czech: “Drážďany”
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  • Eastern Mari: “Дрезден”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “درسدن”
  • Esperanto: “Dresdeno”
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  • Georgian: “დრეზდენი”
  • German: “Dresden”
  • German: “Drežďany”
  • German: “Elbflorenz”
  • German: “Landeshauptstadt Dresden”
  • Greek: “Δρέσδη”
  • Gujarati: “ડ્રેસ્ડેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dresden”
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  • Hebrew: “דרזדן”
  • Hindi: “ड्रेसडेन”
  • Hungarian: “Drezda”
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  • Italian: “Dresda”
  • Japanese: “ドレースデン”
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  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dresden”
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  • Kara-Kalpak: “Elbflorenz”
  • Kashubian: “Drezdëno”
  • Kazakh: “Дрезден”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Dresden”
  • Kirghiz: “Дрезден шаары”
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  • Kongo: “Dresden”
  • Korean: “드레스덴”
  • Korean: “드레즈덴”
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  • Latvian: “Drēzdene”
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  • Limburgan: “Dreesdje”
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  • Low German: “Dresden”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Drježdźany”
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  • Malayalam: “ഡ്രെസ്ഡെൻ”
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  • Maltese: “Drezda”
  • Maltese: “Elbflorenz”
  • Marathi: “ड्रेस्डेन”
  • Mazanderani: “درسدن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dresden”
  • Minangkabau: “Dresden”
  • Mingrelian: “დრეზდენი”
  • Moksha: “Дрэздэн”
  • Mongolian: “Дрезден”
  • Mongolian: “Дресден”
  • Narom: “Dresden”
  • Neapolitan: “Dresden”
  • Nepali: “ड्रेसडेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dresden”
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dresden”
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  • Norwegian: “Dresden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Drèsda”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dresdūn”
  • Ossetian: “Дрезден”
  • Pampanga: “Dresden”
  • Panjabi: “ਡਰੈਸਡਨ”
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  • Persian: “درسدن”
  • Persian: “دریسدن”
  • Picard: “Dresden”
  • Piemontese: “Dresda”
  • Polish: “Drážďany”
  • Polish: “Dresden”
  • Polish: “Drezdno”
  • Polish: “Drezno”
  • Polish: “Drježdźany”
  • Portuguese: “Dresden”
  • Pushto: “درسدن”
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  • Romanian: “Dresda”
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  • Russia Buriat: “Дрезден”
  • Russian: “Дрезден”
  • Rusyn: “Дреждяны”
  • Sardinian: “Dresda”
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  • Serbian: “Дрезден”
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  • Sicilian: “Dresda”
  • Silesian: “Dresden”
  • Sindhi: “ڊريسڊن”
  • Sinhala: “ඩ්රෙස්ඩන්”
  • Slovak: “Drážďany”
  • Slovenian: “Draždani*”
  • Slovenian: “Dresden”
  • Somali: “Dresden”
  • South Azerbaijani: “درسدن”
  • Spanish: “Dresde”
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  • Swedish: “Dresden”
  • Swiss German: “Dresden”
  • Tagalog: “Dresde”
  • Tajik: “Дрезден”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரெஸ்டென்”
  • Tamil: “திரெசுடன்”
  • Tatar: “Дрезден”
  • Telugu: “డ్రెస్డెన్”
  • Tetum: “Dresden”
  • Thai: “เดรสเดิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dresden”
  • Tumbuka: “Dresden”
  • Turkish: “Dresden”
  • Turkish: “Elbflorenz”
  • Turkmen: “Drezden”
  • Twi: “Dresden”
  • Udmurt: “Дрезден”
  • Uighur: “Drézdén”
  • Ukrainian: “Дрезден”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Drježdźany”
  • Urdu: “ڈریسڈن”
  • Uzbek: “Drezden”
  • Venetian: “Dresda”
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  • Western Frisian: “Dresden”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈریسڈن”
  • Wolof: “Dresden”
  • Wu Chinese: “德累斯顿”
  • Yiddish: “דרעזדן”
  • Yoruba: “Dresden”
  • Yue Chinese: “德累斯頓”
  • Zeeuws: “Dresden”
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