Frankfurt (disambiguation)
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The name Frankfurt is associated with:
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[edit] Places in Germany
[edit] Frankfurt am Main
The city of Frankfurt am Main, and the following institutions based there:
- Free City of Frankfurt, (1815-1866) an independent city-state and member of the German Confederation;
- Grand Duchy of Frankfurt (1810-1813);
- The Frankfurt Parliament (German National Assembly founded during the revolutions of 1848);
- Rural district of Frankfurt, a rural district (Landkreis) in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (1885-1910);
- Frankfurt Urban Environs Authority (Umlandverband Frankfurt) (1975-2001);
- The football team Eintracht Frankfurt;
- Frankfurt International Airport;
- The Frankfurt School of social theory and research and of philosophy.
- Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (or Frankfurt Motor Show).
[edit] Other Frankfurt places in Germany
In Germany, there are three more places of this name.
- The town of Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg, eastern Germany;
- The former district (Bezirk) Frankfurt, see subdivisions of the German Democratic Republic;
- A village in Markt Taschendorf, Bavaria;
- A settlement in Wanzleben, Saxony-Anhalt.
[edit] People
The following people are called Frankfurt by family name:
- Akiba ben Jacob Frankfurt (Akiba b. Jacob Frankfurt) (?-1597), German preacher and author;
- Harry Frankfurt, the professor of philosophy at Princeton University.
[edit] Other uses
In Australia, frankfurt is the term used for a frankfurter sausage.
[edit] See also
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