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Article: Dresden gears up for celebrations
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- January 14, 2006
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DRESDEN: Dresden, "Florence on the Elbe" as the city was once
known, is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year with an array
of exhibitions, concerts, open-air events and much more.
Strictly speaking, this former residence of Saxon dukes, electoral
princes and later kings will not be celebrating its 800-year history
as a city, but rather the first written record of it as a place.
Originally a Slavic fishing village, Dresden still had no city
charter when its name appeared in a legal document on March 31, 1206.
It was not until 10 years later that the city's founder, Dietrich
the Hard-Pressed, Margrave of Meissen, referred to "our city
Dresden."
"The anniversary is a community affair, ...