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n. A city in southern Germany.
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Augsburg (lit. Augustborough) [] is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It was a Free Imperial City for over 500 years.
It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 284,000 citizens. After Neuss and Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third oldest city, being founded by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus.
Augsburg is the only German city with its own legal holiday, the Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest, celebrated on August 8 of every year. This gives Augsburg more legal holidays than any other region or city in Germany.
Augsburg was the home of two patrician families that rose to great prominence internationally, replacing the Medicis as Europe's leading bankers, the Fugger and the Welser families.
Augsburg is a district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the city of Augsburg and the districts of Aichach-Friedberg, Landsberg, Ostallgäu, Unterallgäu, Günzburg, Dillingen and Donau-Ries. The city of Augsburg is not part of the district, but nonetheless is its administrative seat.
Augsburg is a city in Germany.
Augsburg may also refer to:
- Augsburg, Arkansas, a small town in the United States
- Augsburg College, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Augsburg Confession, a Lutheran church document
- Augsburg Fortress publishing house of the ELCA
- FC Augsburg, a German football club
- Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), a European coalition during the late 17th century
- University of Augsburg, in Augsburg, Germany
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(cruiser): 4,400 ton light cruiser, launched 1909
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(Type 120) frigate, commissioned 1962 to 1988
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(Type 122) frigate
Usage examples of "augsburg".
One large file of correspondence with Augsburg and Zurich on College of Arms writing-paper and the writing-paper of the addressees.
And then, of course, it would be of the utmost importance if you could spare a day to accompany me to Augsburg to see if the handwriting of these Blofeld families in the Archives, their Christian names and other family details, awaken any memories or connexions in your mind.
Bleuvilles from France and their subsequent transference, as Blofelds, from Augsburg to Gdynia.
I have suggested to him that we conclude the work with a quick visit to Augsburg for the purposes you and I discussed, but he has not yet given me his decision.
Count, among the Blofelds of Augsburg there are no less than two Ernsts!
PRE-REFORMERS The men who, in later ages, claimed for their ancestors a Protestantism older than the Augsburg Confession, referred its origins not to the mystics nor to the humanists, but to bold leaders branded by the church as heretics.
The acts of the Diet of Augsburg in the summer of 1518 are eloquent testimony to the state of popular feeling when Luther had just begun his career.
The Diet which met at Augsburg in the summer of 1518 was extremely hostile to the pope and to his legate, Cardinal Cajetan.
Emperor Maximilian promised his aid to the pope, and in order to expedite matters, the latter changed the summons to Rome to a citation before Cajetan at Augsburg, at the same time instructing the legate to seize the heretic if he did not recant.
Armed with this, the Wittenberg professor appeared before Cajetan at Augsburg, was asked to recant two of his statements on indulgences, and refused.
There were also many free cities, like Augsburg and Nuremberg, small aristocratic republics.
The same attitude was preserved at the Diet of Augsburg, where the Lutherans were careful to avoid all appearance of friendship with the Zwinglians lest they should compromise their standing with the Catholics.
How genuinely popular was the Lutheran movement may be seen in the fact that the free cities, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Strassburg, Ulm, Luebeck, Hamburg, and many others were the first to revolt from Rome.
In effect this allowed the government of every German state to choose between the two confessions, thus anticipating the principle of the Religious Peace of Augsburg of 1555.
As Contarini had found in the statements of the Augsburg Confession no insuperable obstacle to an understanding he was astonished at the stress laid on them by the Protestants now.