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  1. Town the state of Thuringia, Federal Republic
  2. of Germany, on the river Elm; population
  3. (1990) 80,000. Products include farm
  4. machinery and textiles. It was the capital of
  5. the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar 1815-1918; in
  6. 1919 the German National Assembly drew up the
  7. constitution of the new Weimar Republic here.
  8. The writers Goethe, Schiller, and Herder and
  9. the composer Liszt lived in the town. The
  10. former concentration camp of Buchenwald is
  11. nearby.
  12.