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Frankfort on the Oder

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[oh-der] / ˈoʊ dər /

noun

  1. a city in NE Germany, on the Oder River.


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Enlightenment and learning, on their decrease at Frankfort on the Oder, here found their headquarters.

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George

In the winter of 1787-1788 he was sent to the University of Frankfort on the Oder, to study finances.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Published at Frankfort on the Oder, where it took place, 1538, 4.'

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

On the 9th I arrived at Frankfort on the Oder, from which place we found more commodious lodgings in traversing Germany, than we had been accustomed to for a long time.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Three hundred of them were present when he received a degree at Frankfort on the Oder, and the Dominicans at Rome defended even the most extreme and grotesque of the sayings attributed to him.

From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron