Bezirk Cottbus

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Bezirk of East Germany former administrative district

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.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Cottbus region 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bezirk of East Germany ⓘ
former administrative district ⓘ
abolishedBy German reunification NERFINISHED ⓘ
area approximately 8,300 square kilometres ⓘ
bordersWith Bezirk Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bezirk Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bezirk Potsdam NERFINISHED ⓘ
Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital Cottbus NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains Bad Liebenwerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Burg (Spreewald) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Calau NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cottbus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Finsterwalde NERFINISHED ⓘ
Forst (Lausitz) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Guben NERFINISHED ⓘ
Herzberg (Elster) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hoyerswerda NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lauchhammer NERFINISHED ⓘ
Luckau NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lübben NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lübbenau NERFINISHED ⓘ
Schwarze Pumpe NERFINISHED ⓘ
Senftenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ
Spremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ
Weißwasser NERFINISHED ⓘ
containsRegion Lower Lusatia NERFINISHED ⓘ
parts of Upper Lusatia ⓘ
country German Democratic Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
dissolved 1990 ⓘ
established 1952 ⓘ
followedBy Free State of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ
State of Brandenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
State of Saxony-Anhalt NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageUsed German ⓘ
locatedIn East Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
Germany ⓘ
southeastern East Germany ⓘ
minorityLanguageRegion Lower Sorbian ⓘ
namedAfter Cottbus NERFINISHED ⓘ
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) NERFINISHED ⓘ
timeZone Central European Summer Time ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ

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

Bezirk Dresden → borderedBy → Bezirk Cottbus ⓘ
Bezirk Potsdam → borderedBy → Bezirk Cottbus ⓘ
Spremberg → locatedInFormerDistrict → Bezirk Cottbus ⓘ
Lower Sorbian → spokenIn → Bezirk Cottbus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cottbus region