Augsburg, Germany
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View of Augsburg City Hall and other historical buildings in Augsburg
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| Coordinates: 48°22′N 10°54′E / 48.367°N 10.900°ECoordinates: 48°22′N 10°54′E / 48.367°N 10.900°E | |||
| Country | Germany | ||
| State | Bavaria | ||
| Admin. region | Swabia | ||
| District | Urban district | ||
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| • Lord Mayor | Kurt Gribl (CSU) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 146.84 km2 (56.70 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 494 m (1,621 ft) | ||
| Population (2015-12-31) | |||
| • Total | 286,374 | ||
| • Density | 2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | ||
| Postal codes | 86150–86199 | ||
| Dialling codes | 0821 | ||
| Vehicle registration | A | ||
| Mixed Imperial City of Augsburg | ||||||||||
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| Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Augsburg | |||||||||
| Government | Republic | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Bishopric established | 4th century | ||||||||
| • | Bishopric gained Imperial immediacy | c. 888 | ||||||||
| • | City gained immediacy | 1276 | ||||||||
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Diet of Augsburg: Confessio Augustana |
1530 | ||||||||
| • | Joined Schmalkadic League | 1537 | ||||||||
| • | Peace of Augsburg | 1555 | ||||||||
| • | Occupied by Sweden | 1632–35 | ||||||||
| • | Mediatised to Bavaria | 1803 | ||||||||
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| Largest groups of foreign residents | |
| Nationality | Population (2013) |
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 Turkey
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12,618 |
 Italy
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3,868 |
 Romania
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3,201 |
 Croatia
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2,238 |
 Poland
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2,117 |
 Greece
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1,955 |
 Russia
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1,726 |
 Iraq
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1,587 |
 Ukraine
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1,526 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
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1,489 |
 Hungary
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1,416 |
Augsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʔaʊ̯ksbʊʁk]; Bavarian: Augschburg) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It was a Free Imperial City for over 500 years.
It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 286,000 citizens. After Neuss and Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third oldest city, being founded by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus.
Augsburg is the only German city with its own legal holiday, the , celebrated on August 8 of every year. This gives Augsburg more legal holidays than any other region or city in Germany.
Augsburg was the home of two patrician families that rose to great prominence internationally, replacing the Medicis as Europe's leading bankers, the Fugger and the Welser families.
Augsburg lies at the convergence of the Alpine rivers Lech and Wertach and on the Singold. The oldest part of the city and the southern quarters are on the northern foothills of a high terrace, which emerged between the steep rim of the hills of Friedberg in the east and the high hills of the west. In the south extends the Lechfeld, an Outwash plain of the post ice age between the rivers Lech and Wertach, where rare primeval landscapes were preserved. The Augsburg city forest and the Lech valley heaths today rank among the most species-rich middle European habitats.
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