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where it is elected every six years. Usually the administrative seat of a rural district is located in one of its largest towns. However, district council and administrative seat of some rural districts are not situated within the district proper, but in an adjacent district-free city. Most of those
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Linguistically, any city within a district could be called a "Kreisstadt", especially those that aren't district-free to distinguish them from district-free cities. This term has to be distinguished from the legal term "Kreisstadt" that only denotes the location of the administrative office. In
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is the biggest city in
Germany (and at present time the only one with more than 100,000 inhabitants) that is neither an urban district, nor the district seat of its rural district.
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Germanic peoples
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List of urban districts with populations and area in km
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1646:Municipal unions of special kind
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2345:Ostsiedlung (East Colonisation)
1992:official term in the states of
1641:KommunalverbÀnde besonderer Art
1561:are "rural districts" (German:
2361:Early modern period, 1500â1800
2249:List of early Germanic peoples
1803:The district council (German:
1506:Previously, the similar title
1273:Politics of the European Union
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2484:History of Germany since 1990
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1775:Revitalisation of the economy
1760:Financial support for culture
1936:List of districts of Germany
1658:SaarbrĂŒcken town association
1224:Foreign relations by country
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223:Federal Constitutional Court
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2791:German states by GDP
2381:German Confederation
1295:Political ideologies
1174:Rhineland-Palatinate
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247:President of Germany
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3498:Districts of Europe
2749:Automobile industry
2335:Carolingian dynasty
2269:History of the Huns
1778:Encouraging tourism
1666:StÀdteregion Aachen
1664:since 2001 and the
1520:. The related term
1375:Politics portal
2819:Telecommunications
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2416:Revolution of 1918
2411:War guilt question
2330:Carolingian Empire
2299:Sack of Rome (410)
2208:History of Germany
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1591:kreisfreie StÀdte
1518:Holy Roman Empire
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1214:Foreign relations
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