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Min⋅den

[min-duhn]
–noun
a city in NW Louisiana. 15,074.
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Min·den   (mĭn'dən)   
A city of northwest Germany on the Weser River south of Bremen. Settled in Roman times, it was founded c. 800 as a bishopric by Charlemagne. Minden joined the Hanseatic League in the 13th century and passed to Prussia in 1814. Population: 83,100.
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Minden

city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Weser River, near a defile known as the Westfalica Gate where the river leaves the mountains and enters the North German Plain, west of Hannover

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