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Hannover

(Englisch)

  1. (neuter, proper-noun) the capital and largest city of Lower Saxony, Germany
  2. (neuter, proper-noun) a special district (Kommunalverband besonderer Art) of Lower Saxony; full name Region Hannover
  3. (neuter, proper-noun) a former province of Prussia, in modern Germany
  4. (neuter, proper-noun) a former kingdom in the German Confederation

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/haˈnoːfɐ/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle Low German, from underlying an/up den hôen ôver (“on the high shore/bank”). Note that the area of central Hannover now called Am Hohen Ufer was banked up later and is not the at the origin of the city's name; it may rather have been called thus after the latter.

Related words

Hanower

Hannover

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Αννόβερο

Hannover

Hannovera

Hannover

Hannover

Annover

Hanofer

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