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  1. Industrial port (electronics, fish
  2. processing, ship repair) in the state of
  3. Mecklenberg-West Pomerania, Federal Republic
  4. of Germany, on the river Warnow 13 km/8 mi S
  5. of the Baltic; population (1990) 250,000.
  6. Founded 1189, in the 14th century Rostock
  7. became a powerful member of the Hanseatic
  8. League. It was rebuilt in the 1950s and was
  9. capital of an East German district of the
  10. same name 1952-90.
  11.