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  1. Industrial port (iron, steel, oil refining,
  2. chemicals, aircraft, shipbuilding, cars) in
  3. West Germany, on the Weser 69 km/43 mi from
  4. the open sea; population (1988) 522,000.
  5. Bremen was a member of the Hanseatic League,
  6. and a free imperial city from 1646. It became
  7. a member of the North German Confederation
  8. 1867 and of the German Empire 1871.
  9.