Mitteldeutschland: The Middle Elbe Basin as a Geographical Unit
R. E. Dickinson
CENTRAL GERMANY, or Mitteldeutschland, is a term which applied by German scholars to the whole part of middle Elbe basin in Ger? many south Magdeburg. The demands long-range land planning respect extensive lignite quarries and industry settlement associated with them, as well need for creating more rational adminis? trative units, have prompted numerous studies last twenty years, them under semi-ofBcial auspices, economic character this area interrelations its parts.x In article it intended examine what sense measure may be considered geographical unit.
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