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Industrial city (vehicles, paper, textiles,
machinery) and capital of Saxony-Anhalt,
Federal Republic of Germany, on the river
Elbe; population (1990) 290,000. a former
capital of Saxony, Magdeburg became capital
of Saxony-Anhalt on German reunification
1990. In 1938 the city was linked by canal
with the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Magdeburg was
a member of the Hanseatic League, and has a
13th-century Gothic cathedral. Magdeburg
county has an area of 11,530 sq km/4,451 sq
mi, and a population of 1,250,000.