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City and capital of former West Germany on the River Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany. Founded in the 1st century ad as a Roman military establishment, it later became the seat of the electors of Cologne (1238-1797) and was awarded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna (1815). Bonn was capital of West Germany from 1949 until German reunification in 1990. Sights include a Romanesque cathedral and the Poppelsdorf Palace. Beethoven was born here. Industries: engineering, laboratory equipment. Pop. (1999) 304,100.

Bonn

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 18 km/15 mi southeast of Cologne, on the left bank of the Rhine; population (2003 est) 307,500. Industries include the manufacture of light-metal products, ceramics, office equipment, textiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Bonn was the seat of government of West Germany 1949–90 and of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1990. In 1991 the Bundestag (lower house) voted to move the capital to Berlin. This has taken place in phases, with the major phase in 1998. Once a Roman outpost ( Castra Bonnensia ), founded in the 1st century AD ), it was devastated by the Normans in the 9th century, and later became the residence (1238–1794) of the electors of Cologne. Bonn was occupied by the French in 1794, annexed in 1801, and passed to Prussia in 1815. Before the 20th century it was important as the residence of the electors and archbishops of Cologne. The Friedrich-Wilhelms University was founded in 1818 (site of an academy founded in 1777) …
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(bŏn, Ger. bôn), city (1994 pop. 296,860), former capital of West Germany, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It functioned as the provisional seat of government of reunited Germany until 1999, when most of the government moved to Berlin ; some government functions remain in…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 18 km/15 mi southeast of Cologne, on the left bank of the Rhine; population (2003 est) 307,500. Industries include the manufacture of light-metal products, ceramics, office equipment, textiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Bonn was the seat of…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City (pop., 2002 est: city, 306,000; metro. area, 878,700), Germany. Located on the Rhine River south of Cologne , it was, until 1990, the capital of West Germany. An old settlement that predated the coming of the Romans, its name was continued in Castra Bonnensia, a 1st-century Roman fortress. By…
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Full text Article Bonn Summit

From The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy
During the Bretton Woods era (1944–72), the proportion of dollars in world reserves rose steadily. As a result, it was in the countries with a persistent tendency to run balance of payments deficits (the United States and the United Kingdom) that the shortage of world liquidity was observed. In…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
City, North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the left bank of Rhine River 16 mi. (26 km.) SSE of Cologne; pop. (2002c) 306,016; seat of German parliament and formerly ✽ of West Germany; chemicals, stoneware, light metal goods; 13th cent. Romanesque cathedral; 18th cent. town hall; university (1777, …
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Full text Article Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn

From Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
(b. 1132–d. 1197) German Jewish poet, theologian The Jewish poet and exegete (interpreter of Scripture) Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob was born in Bonn in the Rhineland in 1132, where he was raised and educated. He became head of the rabbinical court in Bonn, and his decisions are looked upon as important…
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Founded a publishing house in Bonn (1793). He played horn in the electoral orchestra in Bonn, and by 1780 was dealing in printed music and instruments. He was succeeded in business by his son Peter Joseph Simrock (b. Bonn, 18 Aug. 1792; d. Cologne, 13 Dec. 1868), who published Brahms’s early works. …
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
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