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Nuremberg ( German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz river and the (Rhine-)Main-Danube Canal. Population (as of 2002): 494,000.
It is known as the location of the Nuremberg rallies of the Nazi Party, and for the Nuremberg Trials of Nazis after World War II.
From 1050 to 1571, the city was a regular stop on the progression of the Holy Roman Emperor, particularly because ReichstageThe term Reichstag (in English: Imperial Diet) is a composition of German Reich (Empire) and tag (which does not mean "day" here, but is a derivate of the verb tagen which means assembling for debate). The Latin term, a direct translation, was curia imper (Imperial Diets) and courts met at Nuremberg Castle . The Diets of NurembergThe Diet of Nuremberg is often called the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg . There were several of them because, by the Basic Law for the Empire of 1356, each Holy Roman Emperor had to hold his first diet in Nuremberg after his election. There were also a numbe were an important part of the administrative structure of the empire. In 1219Events Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade Ongoing events Fifth Crusade ( 1217- 1221) Births Deaths Jayavarman VII, ruler of the Khmer Empire Minamoto no Sanetomo, third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of J Nuremberg became an Imperial Free CityIn the Holy Roman Empire, an Imperial Free City (in German: Freie Reichsstadt was a city formally responsible to the Emperor only as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to a territory and were thus governed by one of the many p under Emperor Frederick II. Nuremberg soon became, with Augsburg, one of the two great trade centers on the route from ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer to Northern Europe.
The cultural flowering of Nuremberg in the 15th and 16th centuries made it the center of the German Renaissance.
In 1525, Nuremberg accepted the Reformation, and in 1532, the religious Peace of Nuremberg , by which the Lutherans gained important concessions, was signed there. During the Thirty Years War, in 1632, Gustavus II was besieged in Nuremberg by Wallenstein. The city declined after the war and recovered its importance only in the 19th century, when it grew as an industrial center. In 1806, Nuremberg passed to Bavaria. The first German railway, from Nüremberg to nearby Fürth, was opened in 1835.