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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of southwest Germany in the Saar River valley on the border with France. Because of its extensive coal deposits, it was long contested between Germany and France, especially after World War I, when the League of Nations assigned the administration of the newly formed Saar Territory to France. After a 1935 plebiscite, Saarland became a German province, but it was again placed under French control in 1945. Autonomy was rejected by the populace in 1955, and the region officially became a state of West Germany in 1957.
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- proper noun One of the component states of
Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
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Examples
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The Saarland is the smallest of Germany's states after the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, and had 11.8 billion euros of debt at the end of 2010, the Finance Ministry said.
unknown title 2011
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But we should also keep in mind that, very early, France along with Great Britain declared war on Germany, making France one of the first participants in World War II and that France in fact invaded the German Saarland in September 1939 and that, subsequently, French forces fought valiantly against the Nazis in support of the Dutch, Belgian and other allied forces and in defense of their own homeland.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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I am told that this one still elicits loud guffaws from Saarland to Brandenburg, and from Lower Saxony to Bavaria.
Theodor Storm 2009
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The Intel Visual Computing Institute is located at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, and will receive the $12 million over the next five years.
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I am told that this one still elicits loud guffaws from Saarland to Brandenburg, and from Lower Saxony to Bavaria.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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But we should also keep in mind that, very early, France along with Great Britain declared war on Germany, making France one of the first participants in World War II and that France in fact invaded the German Saarland in September 1939 and that, subsequently, French forces fought valiantly against the Nazis in support of the Dutch, Belgian and other allied forces and in defense of their own homeland.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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But we should also keep in mind that, very early, France along with Great Britain declared war on Germany, making France one of the first participants in World War II and that France in fact invaded the German Saarland in September 1939 and that, subsequently, French forces fought valiantly against the Nazis in support of the Dutch, Belgian and other allied forces and in defense of their own homeland.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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Mr. Gabriel's spokesman declined to comment on unrelated negotiations to form a grand coalition of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats in the southwestern German state of Saarland.
Parties Maneuver in Germany's Political Crisis David Crawford 2012
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But we should also keep in mind that, very early, France along with Great Britain declared war on Germany, making France one of the first participants in World War II and that France in fact invaded the German Saarland in September 1939 and that, subsequently, French forces fought valiantly against the Nazis in support of the Dutch, Belgian and other allied forces and in defense of their own homeland.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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On Friday, State Governor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the Saarland Christian Democrats would seek to form a government with the Social Democrats following the collapse of a three-party government coalition with the Free Democratic Party and the Green Party.
Parties Maneuver in Germany's Political Crisis David Crawford 2012
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