Köln

Meaning

Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)

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Gender
Neuter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kœln/
Etymology

From Early New High German Coellen, ultimately borrowed from Latin Colōnia (Agrippīna) (“(Agrippine) Colony”), shortened from of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, the official Latin name of the original Roman settlement at Köln.

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Heute   lebt  Meitinger  in   Bonn
Bonn
 ,  arbeitet   jedoch   weiterhin   in   Köln .

Today, Meitinger lives in Bonn, but continues to work in Cologne.

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