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Cottbus

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Cottbus or Kottbus (both: kôt`bs), city (1994 pop. 128,120), Brandenburg, E Germany, on the Spree River. It is an industrial center and rail junction, but one that is heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide. Manufactures include textiles, leather, machinery, and building materials. Cottbus developed as a market center in the late 12th cent. and passed to Brandenburg in the mid-15th cent. It was annexed, with the rest of Lusatia Lusatia (lsā`shə), Ger. Lausitz, Pol.
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, by Saxony in 1635 and was taken by Prussia in 1815.


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Keller wins opener: Kasey Keller stopped Jiayi Shao from close range as Borussia Moenchengladbach topped promoted Energie Cottbus 2-0 in the American goalkeeper's debut as captain in a German Bundesliga opener.
In this issue, Herzog & de Meuron's library for the Technical University of Cottbus (p64) near the Polish border attempts to inject some civic bravado into a chronically despondent urban condition.
He attended the local school and, at the encouragement of his pastor, the Gymnasium in Cottbus where he studied, among other things, Latin, Greek, and Sorbian.
 
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