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Sankt Gal⋅len

[zahngkt gah-luhn]
–noun
German name of St. Gallen.

St. Gal⋅len

[gah-luhn]
–noun
1. a canton in NE Switzerland. 384,800; 777 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
2. a city in and the capital of this canton. 77,800.
French, St. Gall [san gal] .
German, Sankt Gallen.
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Sankt Gal·len   (zängkt gä'lən)   
A city of northeast Switzerland east of Zurich. Developed around a Benedictine abbey founded by an Irish missionary in the seventh century, it joined the Swiss Confederation in 1454. Population: 70,400.
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