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Thuringian Forest

American  

noun

  1. a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.


Thuringian Forest British  

noun

  1. German name: Thüringer Wald.  a forested mountainous region in E central Germany, rising over 900 m (3000 ft)

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What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu.

From Time Magazine Archive

Froebel is sent to Neuhof in the Thuringian Forest to learn forestry.

From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Michaelis, Emilie

It is also undeniable that our poorest districts in Germany—the Silesian Eulengebirge, the Lausitz, the Erzgebirge and Fichtelgebirge, the Thuringian Forest, the Harz, etc.,—are the centers of densest population, whose chief food are potatoes.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

When I hear him," said Ulrich, "I wish my student days over, and long to be in the old castle in the Thuringian Forest, to give everything good there a new impulse.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

Then, accompanied by some of his relations, he took the road through Schweina, past the castle of Altenstein, and then across the back of the Thuringian Forest to Waltershausen and Gotha.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

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