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Answer for the clue "West German area ", 4 letters:
saar

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Word definitions for saar in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A river in Europe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
river in western Germany, from PIE root *ser- (2) "to run, flow" (see serum ).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Saar (Werra) is a river of Thuringia , Germany .

Usage examples of saar.

You who were once a fighting sheikh of the Saar, the fiercest of all the tribes of Oman.

It will appoint three of the five members of the Saar commission, oversee its regime, and carry out the plebiscite.

She loses sovereignty over the northeasternmost tip of East Prussia, 40 square miles north of the River Memel, and the internationalized areas about Danzig, 729 square miles, and the basin of the Saar, 738 square miles, between the western border of the Rhenish Palatinate of Bavaria and the southeast corner of Luxembourg.

France and as payment on account of reparation, Germany cedes to France full ownership of the coal mines of the Saar Basin with their subsidiaries, accessories, and facilities.

Wendel, including on the west the valley of the Saar as far as Saarholzbach and on the east the town of Homburg.

France entire freedom in working the mines, the territory will be governed by a commission appointed by the League of Nations and consisting of five members, one French, one a native inhabitant of the Saar, and three representing three different countries other than France and Germany.

Saar away from home, and Lady Saar, the butler informed him, on her way to Bath with the Honourable Sophia.

I feel that my time has not been wasted, even though Lord Saar was not here to receive me.

The question was then not so much how it came, to be in my possession, as how to restore it to Lord Saar with the least possible delay.

He had left his mother trying to write a suitable letter to Lady Saar, and if he thought about the unfortunate affair at all it was to reflect comfortably that Lady Luttrell would do everything that was proper.

The month before, on January 13, the inhabitants of the Saar had voted overwhelmingly - 477,000 to 48,000 - to return their little coal-rich territory to the Reich and Hitler had taken the occasion to publicly proclaim that Germany had no further territorial claims on France, which meant the abandoning of German claims on Alsace and Lorraine.

The British could contribute but one infantry division, which had been in the Saar, and parts of an armored division.

Day Hitler threw eight German divisions into an attack in the Saar and followed it with a thrust from the bridgehead on the Upper Rhine by an army under the command of - to the German generals this was a bad joke - Heinrich Himmler.

March 1, 1935, the day Germany took over the Saar, I stood next to Fritsch in the reviewing stand at Saarbruecken for some time before the parade started.

Germany itself was also dismembered: the Saar mines were transferred to France, as was Alsace-Lorraine, with its two million population and three-quarters of German iron production.