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Dresden.

Dresden (the capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe)

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name/ˈdʁeːsdn̩/
  1. Dresden (the capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe)

    neuter · proper-noun
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German Dresden, from a Sorbian source akin to Lower Sorbian Drježdźany, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dręzga, of which the locative case is *dręzdzě.

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