Torgau
Torgau is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district Nordsachsen. Outside Germany, the town is best known as where on 25 April 1945, the United States and Soviet Armies first met near the end of World War II.
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: town in Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Große Kreisstadt Torgau” and “Таргау”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hahnemann-Haus Torgau and Spalatinhaus Torgau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pflückuff and Zinna.
Pflückuff
Hamlet
Zinna
Village
Torgau
- Categories: Greater district town, Lutherstadt, and locality
- Location: Nordsachsen, Leipzig Lowlands-Central Hills, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.5581° or 51° 33′ 29″ north
Longitude
13.0047° or 13° 0′ 17″ east
Population
20,000
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE TOU
Open location code
9F3MH253+7V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Torgau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Torgau”
- Arabic: “تورجاو”
- Arabic: “تورغو”
- Aragonese: “Torgau”
- Armenian: “Տորգաու”
- Arpitan: “Torgau”
- Asturian: “Torgau”
- Bashkir: “Торгау”
- Basque: “Torgau”
- Bavarian: “Torgau”
- Belarusian: “Таргаў”
- Belarusian: “Торгау”
- Belarusian: “Торгаў”
- Bosnian: “Torgau”
- Breton: “Torgau”
- Bulgarian: “Торгау”
- Catalan: “Torgau”
- Cebuano: “Torgau (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Torgau”
- Chechen: “Торгау”
- Chinese: “托尔高”
- Chinese: “托爾高”
- Corsican: “Torgau”
- Croatian: “Torgau”
- Czech: “Torgau”
- Danish: “Torgau”
- Dutch: “Torgau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورجاو”
- Esperanto: “Torgau”
- Estonian: “Torgau”
- Finnish: “Torgau”
- French: “Torgau”
- Friulian: “Torgau”
- Galician: “Torgau”
- German: “Torgau”
- Greek: “Τόργκαου”
- Hebrew: “טורגאו”
- Hungarian: “Torgau”
- Icelandic: “Torgau”
- Ido: “Torgau”
- Indonesian: “Torgau”
- Interlingua: “Torgau”
- Interlingue: “Torgau”
- Irish: “Torgau”
- Italian: “Torgau”
- Japanese: “トルガウ”
- Jèrriais: “Torgau”
- Kazakh: “Торгау”
- Kongo: “Torgau”
- Korean: “토르가우”
- Kurdish: “Torgau”
- Ladin: “Torgau”
- Latin: “Argelia”
- Latvian: “Torgava”
- Ligurian: “Torgau”
- Limburgan: “Torgau”
- Low German: “Torgau”
- Lower Sorbian: “Torgawa”
- Luxembourgish: “Torgau”
- Macedonian: “Торгау”
- Malagasy: “Torgau”
- Malay: “Torgau”
- Minangkabau: “Torgau”
- Neapolitan: “Torgau”
- Northern Frisian: “Torgau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torgau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torgau”
- Norwegian: “Torgau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torgau”
- Persian: “تورگاو”
- Picard: “Torgau”
- Piemontese: “Torgau”
- Polish: “Torgau”
- Portuguese: “Torgau”
- Romanian: “Torgau”
- Romansh: “Torgau”
- Russian: “Торгау”
- Sardinian: “Torgau”
- Scots: “Torgau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Torgau”
- Serbian: “Torgau”
- Serbian: “Торгау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torgau”
- Sicilian: “Torgau”
- Silesian: “Torgau”
- Slovak: “Torgau”
- Slovenian: “Torgau”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورقاو”
- Spanish: “Torgau”
- Swahili: “Torgau”
- Swedish: “Torgau”
- Swiss German: “Torgau”
- Tatar: “Торгау”
- Tumbuka: “Torgau”
- Turkish: “Torgau”
- Ukrainian: “Торґау/Торгов”
- Ukrainian: “Торгау”
- Upper Sorbian: “Torhow”
- Urdu: “ٹورگاؤ”
- Uzbek: “Torgau”
- Venetian: “Torgau”
- Vietnamese: “Torgau”
- Vlaams: “Torgau”
- Volapük: “Torgau”
- Walloon: “Torgau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torgau”
- Welsh: “Torgau”
- Western Frisian: “Torgau”
- Wolof: “Torgau”
- Zulu: “Torgau”
- “Torgau”
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