Dresden (disambiguation)

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Dresden is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony.

Dresden may also refer to:

• Dresden or Bombing of Dresden in World War II, an Allied bombing campaign in World War II that devastated the city

Other places

Germany

• Dresden (region), one of the three former Direktionsbezirke of the Free State of Saxony, Germany

United States

• Dresden, Kansas
• Dresden, Maine
• Dresden, Missouri
• Dresden, Perry County, Missouri, abandoned village
• Dresden, Washington County, New York, a town
• Dresden, Yates County, New York, a village
• Dresden, North Dakota
• Dresden, Ohio
• Dresden, Tennessee
• Dresden Generating Station in Illinois

Canada

• Dresden, Ontario

United Kingdom

• Dresden, Staffordshire, England

Vessels

• The SMS Dresden (1907), a German light cruiser named after the German city, commissioned in 1908 and scuttled by her crew in 1915
• The SMS Dresden (1917), the second German light cruiser named Dresden, built during World War I as a replacement for her namesake
• The steamer USS Zeppelin (1914), renamed Dresden when purchased by the North German Lloyd Line in 1927
• For other uses of the name see SS Dresden

Media

• Dave Dresden (born 1969), progressive house DJ from San Francisco and one half of DJ duo Gabriel & Dresden
• Dresden (1946 film), a 1946 East-German film
• Dresden (2006 film), a 2006 television film directed by Roland Suso Richter
• Dresden (album), a 2009 album by Jan Garbarek
• "Dresden", a 2013 song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from the album English Electric

Surname

• Arnold Dresden (1882–1954), Dutch-American mathematician
• Harry Dresden, protagonist of The Dresden Files

Other uses

• Dresden Porcelain, a porcelain factory in Freital near Dresden
  • Dresden, a term sometimes used to mean European porcelain
• The Dresden meteorite of 1939, which fell in Ontario, Canada (see meteorite falls)
• Dresden United F.C. an English football club, active in the 1890s
• Dresden Codex, a Mayan astrology book