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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Frankfurt or Frankfurt am Main , city (1994 pop. 659,800), Hesse, central Germany, a port on the Main River. It is also known in English as Frankfort. The city is an industrial, media, commercial, and financial center and a transportation hub. It is headquarters of the leading German stock exchange, numerous commercial banks, and the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank; the European Central Bank also is there. Manufactures include river craft, pharmaceuticals, metals, machinery, oil products, and beer. Chemical production is concentrated in the Höchst district. Frankfurt is the site... Read more

Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany 1. To distinguish the two cities with this name, the rivers on which they lie are included: Frankfurt am Main ‘Frankfurt on the Main’ in Hesse, and Frankfurt an der Oder ‘Frankfurt on the Oder’ in Brandenburg... Read more

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...Institute for Social Research), founded in Frankfurt in 1923 by Felix J. Weil, Carl Grunberg...functioned until 1941; it was reestablished in Frankfurt in 1950. Though the institute was originally...doctrine common to all members of the Frankfurt school. Intellectually, the school is... Read more

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