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  1. Capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, West
  2. Germany, on the Rhine, 37 km/23 mi WSW of
  3. Frankfurt-am-Main; population (1988) 189,000.
  4. In Roman times it was a fortified camp and
  5. became the capital of Germania Superior.
  6. Printing was possibly invented here about
  7. 1448 by Gutenberg.
  8.