Bezirk Cottbus

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Bezirk Cottbus was an administrative district in the former East Germany, located in the southeast of the country and centered around the city of Cottbus.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bezirk Cottbus canonical 4
Cottbus region 1

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bezirk of East Germany
former administrative district
abolishedBy German reunification
linked to: unified Germany
area approximately 8,300 square kilometres
bordersWith Bezirk Dresden
Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder)
Bezirk Leipzig
Bezirk Potsdam
Poland
capital Cottbus
contains Bad Liebenwerda
Burg (Spreewald)
linked to: Spreewald

Calau
Cottbus
Finsterwalde
Forst (Lausitz)
Guben
Herzberg (Elster)
Hoyerswerda
Lauchhammer
Luckau
Lübben
Lübbenau
Schwarze Pumpe
Senftenberg
Spremberg
Weißwasser
containsRegion Lower Lusatia
linked to: Lusatia

parts of Upper Lusatia
country German Democratic Republic
linked to: East Germany
dissolved 1990
established 1952
followedBy Free State of Saxony
linked to: Saxony

State of Brandenburg
linked to: Brandenburg

State of Saxony-Anhalt
linked to: Saxony-Anhalt
languageUsed German
locatedIn East Germany
Germany
southeastern East Germany
minorityLanguageRegion Lower Sorbian
namedAfter Cottbus
partOfAdministrativeReform 1952 East German district reform
population approximately 900,000 (late 1980s)
primaryEconomicSectors agriculture
energy production
lignite mining
textile industry
replaced State of Brandenburg (East Germany)
timeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bezirk Potsdam borderedBy Bezirk Cottbus
Bezirk Dresden borderedBy Bezirk Cottbus
Spremberg locatedInFormerDistrict Bezirk Cottbus
Lower Sorbian spokenIn Cottbus region
linked to: Bezirk Cottbus
Northern Districts of the GDR hasPart Bezirk Cottbus