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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Anhalt , former state, c.900 sq mi (2,330 sq km), central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg. Dessau, the capital, and Köthen were the chief cities. Nonmountainous except for the outliers of the lower Harz Mts. in the west, it was drained by the Elbe, Mulde, and Saale rivers. Until 1918, Anhalt was ruled by one of the most ancient houses of Germany, issued from a son of Albert the Bear (12th cent.); it was divided, at most times, into several principalities held by various branches of the family. Reunited into a single duchy in 1863, it joined the... Read more

Saxony-Anhalt
, Ger. Sachsen-Anhalt, state (1994 pop. 2,965,000), 7,892 sq...after the 17th cent., until Leopold IV of Anhalt-Dessau consolidated the three existing...under Soviet military occupation, Saxony-Anhalt consisted, roughly, of the former state... Read more

Anhalt
...around the upper Elbe River from which Anhalt was constituted was, in the 11th century...finally reconstituted as the duchy of Anhalt by Leopold IV in 1863. It became part...Reconstituted after World War II as Saxony-Anhalt, it subsequently became part of East Germany... Read more

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	Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review) ; Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory. Edited by Robin Elliott...lived in Canada since 1949, composer Istvan Anhalt has held important teaching positions at...must have been to stimulate interest in Anhalt's music among performers and scholars outside... Read more
	Obituary; Anhalt built bridge community ; When Jack Anhalt moved to Milwaukee in 1949, he had a hard...bridge. That, he decided, would not do. Anhalt first organized a bridge club at the downtown...him to organize a club there, too, and Anhalt was soon the director for two thriving... Read more
	TALE OF 2 FIRMS: `It's the end of an era'; Anhalt/O'Connell resigns bond accounts as Lockheed takes back assets; Brundage Story & Rose sells units.(Brief Article) ; Anhalt/O'Connell & Steffanci Inc. has resigned its fixed-income...amp; Jenrette Inc. and to Bessemer Trust Co. NA. Paul Anhalt, chief investment officer of the firm that bears his name...the pension fund, refused to comment. Los Angeles-based Anhalt had been managing more than $700 million in Treasury ... Read more
	The politics of shrinking; German state elections.(Ahead of the March 26th state elections)(Saxony-Anhalt) ; The uncertain future of Saxony-Anhalt DISSOLUTION is the right solution. That...of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt after the election on March 26th. If he...understandable if voters wanted to preserve Saxony-Anhalt. Martin Luther was born there. No other... Read more
	Obituary: Edward Anhalt ; ...SCREENWRITER and occasional producer Edward Anhalt, who won two Academy Awards, was particularly...his escape." Born in New York in 1914, Anhalt was educated at Columbia University and...husband was still involved in television. Anhalt's first Hollywood screenplay was The Gentleman... Read more
	Edward Anhalt ; THE American screenwriter Edward Anhalt, who won Academy Awards for his work on...Streets, has died in Los Angeles. He was 86. Anhalt was born in New York City and graduated...The Sniper, which he co-wrote with Edna Anhalt, the first of his five wives. She also... Read more
	In search of the right magic. (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) ; ...of rare power atop the Brocken, Saxony-Anhalt's highest mountain. For the superstitious...If unity can be made to work in Saxony-Anhalt, Wessis (western Germans) say grimly...districts , failed to destroy. Saxony-Anhalt, on the other hand, was formed only in... Read more
	Patricia Olson (nee Anhalt) ; Patricia Olson (nee Anhalt), age 57, a resident of Spring Grove...IL. to Albert and Marie (nee Winkoski) Anhalt, and was united in marriage to Ronald...her brothers, Jerome "Jerry" (Mary) Anhalt of Indiana, Robert "Bob" (Laverne) Anhalt... Read more
	Dismal all round: Germany.(the April 1998 election in the Saxony-Anhalt section of Germany gave 13% of its vote to the German People's Union that emphasizes racial hatred and xenophobia)(Brief Article) ; ...in the wake of the election in Saxony-Anhalt on April 26th. True enough. A disturbing...At 23%, the unemployment rate in Saxony-Anhalt (once the economic heartland of the communist...long. But that does not mean the Saxony-Anhalt result can simply be dismissed with a... Read more
	Lawrence A. Anhalt ; Lawrence A. "Larry" Anhalt, 85, of Bethany Home, formerly of 2620...Iowa, son of Henry and Frances (Rohde) Anhalt. He married Elizabeth "Betty" Kieffer...the age of 7; and a brother, Wendell Anhalt. Memorials may be given to Bethany Home... Read more

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	Briefe der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft und Beilagen: Die Zeit Furst Ludwigs von Anhalt-Kothen, 1617-1650, vol. 3.(Book Review)
	The state of Saxony-Anhalt has invited bids for the concession to operate the five-line Leipzig/Halle S-Bahn network.(Leipzig)
	Burgeland railway has had its concession to operate passenger services on the 157km Sachsen-Anhalt South network extended by a further 12 years from December 2006.(Germany)

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