Bavaria
a state in SE Germany: formerly a kingdom. 27,239 sq. mi. (70,550 sq. km). Capital: Munich.
- German Bayern.
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How to use Bavaria in a sentence
Germany’s historic floods have washed out mountain trails in Bavaria.
Climate Change Won't Kill Tourism, But the Industry Is in for a Painful Reckoning | Ciara Nugent | August 18, 2021 | TimeBavaria’s politicians, however, have yet to win a postwar chancellorship.
In 1807, Bavaria declared vaccination for smallpox mandatory.
Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it. | Kelsey Piper | February 5, 2021 | VoxThat’s not to say new lockdowns of some kind definitely won’t be needed—case numbers continue to rise in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, and Bremen—but Spahn said Wednesday that outbreaks could be handled regionally.
Five days is long enough for a coronavirus quarantine, says Germany’s top virologist | David Meyer | September 2, 2020 | FortuneUpon his liberation in 1945, the U.S. military set him up with a tailor shop in a small town in Bavaria.
His remains were buried in a family plot in Bavaria until their exhumation Wednesday.
Above was a deep-blue sky with those thick low masses of snow-white clouds one sees only in Bavaria.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe first thought which occurred to William was that it might be possible to put the Elector of Bavaria in his son's place.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThe abbey of Langheim, in the diocese of Bamberg, Bavaria, owned a farm on which the monks kept their flocks.
Mary, Help of Christians | VariousOn my way from Bavaria to Prussia I saw a number of automobiles flying across the country carrying their officers to the front.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianBavaria was his faithful subordinate, and (p. 196) Poland still hoped everything from his successes.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
British Dictionary definitions for Bavaria
/ (bəˈvɛərɪə) /
a state of S Germany: a former duchy and kingdom; mainly wooded highland, with the Alps in the south. Capital: Munich. Pop: 12 155 000 (2000 est). Area: 70 531 sq km (27 232 sq miles): German name: Bayern
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Cultural definitions for Bavaria
State in southwestern Germany bordered by the former Czechoslovakia to the east, Austria to the southeast and south, and the German states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Hesse to the west and northwest. Its capital and largest city is Munich.
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