Today I received a lovely map card of Saxony-Anhalt, or Sachsen-Anhalt in German, from Minimuffin, otherwise known as Peggy, who is my newest long-term postcard exchange pal! She lives in the capital of this federal state, Magdeburg.
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| Map of Saxony-Anhalt |
3 facts about Saxony-Anhalt:
- By size, Saxony-Anhalt is the 8th largest state and by population, the 10th largest, out of 16 in Germany.
- It is home to more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any of the other states in Germany, 5 of them in all.
- Martin Luther, a German friar, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the 16th-century movement in Christianity known later as the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben in Saxony-Anhalt in 1483.
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