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Freiberg, Saxony
Freiberg is a city in Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Freiberg. Population 45.428 (2001).
The city was founded in 1186, and has been a center of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries. A symbol of this history is the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, established in 1765 and the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world.
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