Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of east-central Germany near the Polish border. It developed as a market center in the late 12th century.
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- proper noun An
independent city inBrandenburg , Germany
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Examples
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Klinsmann said much would depend on Wolfsburg's game in Cottbus, which is next to last.
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Klinsmann said much would depend on Wolfsburg's game in Cottbus, which is next to last.
unknown title 2009
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Associated Press A technician cleans solar moduls in the solar power park in Lieberose, near Cottbus, eastern Germany.
Solyndra Does Europe 2011
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But the American secretary was proud of the Association's work at Cottbus, since it rendered assistance equally to men of all nationalities and faiths. 58
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The city of Cottbus presented the clock for the hall's tower with the wish: "May the hands not go around too many times before they bring us to the time of an honorable peace."
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In a similar tragedy less than a month ago in Germany, a Husky killed an 8-week-old baby in Cottbus, in the eastern state of Brandenburg.
Attack Dogs Kill 3-Year-Old Girl, Injure Her Great-Grandmother 2010
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The American YMCA also paid for the construction and maintenance of an Association hall at Cottbus in Brandenburg under the control of the III Army Corps in July 1916.
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A German general officer, Kretzschmer was the commandant of the prison camp at Cottbus (III Army Corps).
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Hoffman assigned J. Gustav White, an American secretary who had arrived in April, to organize a prison camp Association at Cottbus, and he worked well with the commandant,
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A large number of POWs at Cottbus could not be assigned to labor detachments, and they had to be kept busy to prevent boredom and depression.
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