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Bautzen

American  
[bou-tsuhn] / ˈbaʊ tsən /

noun

  1. a city in E Germany, on the Spree River: scene of defeat of Prussian and Russian armies by Napoleon I, 1813.


Bautzen British  
/ ˈbaʊtsən /

noun

  1. a town in E Germany, in Saxony: site of an indecisive battle in 1813 between Napoleon's army and an allied army of Russians and Prussians. Pop: 42 160 (2003 est)

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And Alexander Ahrens, the mayor of Bautzen, said Saxony has been slow to address its neo-Nazi problem, with previous state leaders reluctant to tackle it.

From Washington Post Jan. 30, 2022

In areas like Bautzen, that drops to 51 percent.

From Washington Post Jan. 30, 2022

Deutsche Welle reports that police intervened in protests in Rostock and Bautzen, though many of the protests were peaceful.

From Washington Times Jan. 18, 2022

Such talk worries Sven Scheidemantel, a local politician and chairman of a pro-refugee group, Welcome to Bautzen.

From Seattle Times Sep. 22, 2016

He himself went through the tremendous campaign that brought about the conclusion of the war and the downfall of Napoleon, and was present at the great battles of Lutzen, Bautzen, Reichenbach, Dresden, Culm, and Leipsic.

From Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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