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Zell (Mosel) is a town in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Zell has roughly 4,300 inhabitants and is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde . Geography [ edit ]
The city is considered the second-largest city in Iraq in terms of population and area after the capital Baghdad. Mosul is approximately 400 km (250 mi) north of Baghdad on the Tigris river. The Mosul metropolitan area has grown from the old city on the western side to encompass substantial areas on both the "Left Bank" (east side) and the ...
Koblenz. / 50.35972°N 7.59778°E / 50.35972; 7.59778. Koblenz ( UK: / koʊˈblɛnts / koh-BLENTS, US: / ˈkoʊblɛnts / KOH-blents, German: [ˈkoːblɛnts] ⓘ) is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multinational tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C.
The 553rd Volksgrenadier Division ( German: 553. Volksgrenadier-Division) was a volksgrenadier division of the German Army during World War II that fought entirely on the Western Front. Sent to stop the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine in September 1944, it was nearly encircled and destroyed twice in northeastern France: first at Nancy ...
The Battle of Nancy in September 1944 was a 10-day battle on the Western Front of World War II in which the Third United States Army defeated German forces defending the approaches to Nancy, France and crossings over the Moselle River to the north and south of the city. The battle resulted in U.S. forces fighting their way across the Moselle ...
The Meuse (/ m juː z / mewz, / m ɜː z /, US also / m ɜːr z, m ʌ z / mu(r)z, French: ⓘ; Walloon: Moûze) or Maas (/ m ɑː s / mahss, Dutch: ⓘ; Limburgish: Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
The Treveri ( Gaulish: * Treweroi) were a Germanic or Celtic [1] tribe of the Belgae group who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle in modern day Germany from around 150 BCE, if not earlier, [2] until their displacement by the Franks. [3] Their domain lay within the southern fringes of the Silva Arduenna ( Ardennes Forest), a part of the ...
Most of the Nazi dignitaries assumed it was obvious that Metz, where so many German army officers were born, was a German city. At that time, the Wehrmacht did not consider it an important location and the city's defenses were reduced with many guns and equipment removed, although the fortifications were still heavily defended and well armed.