Leipzig (; ) with more than 530. 000 inhabitants, is one of the two largest cities ( along with Dresden ) in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

Another game on this theme is his win over Paul Johner at Dresden 1926.

This interest is attested to by the Dresden codex which contains tables with information about the Venus's appearances in the sky.

One remnant of this era is that the name Dresden is still used in the Dresden School District, an interstate school district serving both Hanover and Norwich, Vermont — the first and one of the few inter-state school districts in the nation.

While it is possible that the name " Dresden " derived from Dresden in Germany, it is more likely derived directly from the old Sorbian word drezg (" forest ") or Drezd ' ane, for an inhabitant of a forest.

* 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

* 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

* 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche ( destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II ) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

On the Dresden vase Persephone is growing out of the ground, and she is surrounded by the animal-tailed agricultural gods Silenoi.

The vessel is on display in a museum in Dresden.

It is also the crossing point for many international routes like E40 connecting Calais, Brussels, Cologne, Dresden, Wrocław, Kraków and Kiev and E75 from Scandinavia to the Balkans.

Wrocław is skirted on the south by the A4 motorway, which allows for a quick connection with Upper Silesia, Kraków and further east to the Ukraine, and Dresden and Berlin to the west.

** Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

* July 20 – The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.

** The Dresden English Football Club is founded, first soccer club on European mainland.

** The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

For a time, Dresden was capital of the republic.

A terminus of the first German long distance railway to Dresden ( the capital of Saxony ) in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with Leipzig Central Station the largest terminal station by area in Europe.

Dresden, capital of Saxony

Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour.

Dresden later evolved into the capital of Saxony.

After 1270, Dresden became the capital of the margravate.

Between 1918 and 1934 Dresden was capital of the first Free State of Saxony.

Being the capital of the German state of Saxony, Dresden had not only garrisons but a whole military borough, the Albertstadt.

The Bombing of Dresden was a strategic military attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War.

In 1817 Tieck visited England in order to collect materials for a work on Shakespeare ( unfortunately never finished ) and in 1819 he settled permanently in Dresden ; from 1825 on he was literary adviser to the Court Theatre, and his semi-public readings from the dramatic poets gave him a reputation which extended far beyond the Saxon capital.

He established the Saxon capital of Dresden as a major cultural centre, attracting artists from across Europe to his court.

In Dresden, the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony, the people took to the streets asking King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony to engage in electoral reform, social justice and for a constitution.

Nearly every larger city in Germany is a consolidated city – county, like Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich or Dresden ; Austria, where the capital of Vienna is both a city and state ; France, where the capital city of Paris has been coterminous with the département of Paris since 1968 ; and South Korea, where Seoul is a special city, while six other cities ( Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, and Ulsan ) are metropolitan cities.

Dresden most commonly refers to the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony, or as shorthand for the Allied bombing campaign in World War II that devastated the city.

Moritzburg is a municipality in the district of Meißen in Saxony, Germany, between Meißen as early centre of Saxony and the today's capital Dresden.

Geographically, it is usually considered to be located between Saxony and Bohemia ; the author indicates that the capital city, Strelsau, lies on the railway line between Dresden and Prague.

George was born in the Saxon capital Dresden.

Blue Wonder () is the commonly used name for the Loschwitz Bridge ( Loschwitzer Brücke ), a cantilever truss bridge over the Elbe river in the Saxon capital of Dresden, Germany.

It is also a popular recreation area for the nearby Saxon capital Dresden.

Its capital was the city of Dresden, and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony.

It was the Bauhaus contemporaries Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig and particularly Ernst May, as the city architects of Berlin, Dresden and Frankfurt respectively, who are rightfully credited with the thousands of socially progressive housing units built in Weimar Germany.

* 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.

Unlike its neighbouring city of Dresden this was largely conventional bombing, with high explosives rather than incendiaries.

Architects who were renowned for their constructions using the style include Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian architect who worked in Russia and who was noted for his lavish and opulent works, Philip de Lange, who worked in both Danish and Dutch Rococo architecture, or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, who worked in the late Baroque style and who contributed to the reconstruction of the city of Dresden, in Germany.

Although Dresden is a relatively recent city of Slavic origin, the area had been settled in the Neolithic era by Linear Pottery culture tribes ca.

The city of Dresden had a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings by Bernardo Bellotto and by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl.

Dresden, 1945, view from the city hall ( Rathaus ) over the destroyed city ( the allegory of goodness in the foreground )

Dresden, 1945 — over ninety percent of the city centre was destroyed.

The inner city of Dresden was largely destroyed by 722 RAF and 527 USAAF bombers that dropped 2431 tons of high explosive bombs, and 1475. 9 tons of incendiaries.

The bombing raid on Dresden destroyed almost all of the ancient centre of the city in three waves of attacks.

Dresden is one of the greenest cities in all of Europe, with 63 % of the city being green areas and forests.

Dresden is a spacious city.

The population of Dresden reached 100, 000 inhabitants in 1852, making it the third German city to reach that number.

The population of the city of Dresden is 523, 058 ( 2010 ), the population of the Dresden agglomeration is 780, 561 ( 2008 ), and the population of Region Dresden ( which includes the neighbouring districts of Meißen, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge and the western part of the district of Bautzen ) is 1, 143, 197 ( 2007 ).

Plan of the city of Dresden in 1750 with the fortifications by the Zwinger by Lynar ( left half of the picture, north is to the right )

After the war, in a referendum, the people of Dresden voted to restore the building and generally preferred to rebuild the glories of the city, instead of having the ruins razed to make way for the architecture of socialist realism then prevalent in the German Democratic Republic.

* Dresden receives city rights.

Four years before, in 1685, the old city of Dresden was destroyed by a fire ; later, Wolf Caspar of Klengel and Balthasar Permoser were entrusted by the Duke with the reconstruction of the city in the baroque style which was the new fashion at the time.

Some examples include the Allies ' destruction of civilian Axis targets during World War II, such as the firebombing of the German city of Dresden and the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; and the mass killing of Biharies by Kader Siddique and Mukti Bahini before or after victory of Bangladesh Liberation War in Bangladesh between 1971 and 1972.