S: (n) Bremen (a city of northwestern Germany linked by the Weser River to the port of Bremerhaven and the North Sea; in the Middle Ages it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Bremerhaven (a port city in northwestern Germany at the mouth of the Weser River on the North Sea; has a deep natural harbor and is an important shipping center)
S: (n) Chemnitz, Karl-Marx-Stadt (a city in east central Germany; formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1990; noted for textile manufacturing)
S: (n) Dortmund (an industrial city in northwestern Germany; flourished from the 13th to 17th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Dresden (a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945)
S: (n) Leipzig (a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center)
S: (n) Solingen (a city in west central Germany noted for cutlery)
S: (n) Weimar (a German city near Leipzig; scene of the adoption in 1919 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic that lasted until 1933)
S: (n) Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)
S: (n) Hameln, Hamelin (a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper)
S: (n) Bonn (a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989)
S: (n) Cologne, Koln (a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale (a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries)
S: (n) Hamburg (a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Hannover, Hanover (a port city in northwestern Germany; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Lubeck (a city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port; a leading member of the Hanseatic League)
S: (n) Mannheim (a city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers)
S: (n) Nuremberg, Nurnberg (a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46))
S: (n) Potsdam (a city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945)
S: (n) Rostock (a city in northeastern Germany near the Baltic sea; an important member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)
S: (n) Stuttgart (a city in southwestern Germany famous for innovative architecture)
S: (n) Palatinate, Pfalz (a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine)
S: (n) Prussia, Preussen (a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland) "in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states"
S: (n) Ruhr, Ruhr Valley (a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany)
S: (n) Danube, Danube River, Danau (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea) "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube"
S: (n) Neckar, Neckar River (a river in Germany; rises in the Black Forest and flows north into the Rhine)
S: (n) Berlin, Irving Berlin, Israel Baline (United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989))