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Amharic language The Amharic language belongs to the Semitic language family. It is related to other Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Tigrinya. Amharic is spoken in Ethiopia…

The Yenidze, the landmark of Hugo Zietz's tobacco and cigarette factory, was built in 1909 in an oriental architectural style. Today it is used commercially for offices and restaurants.

Armenian language The Armenian language belongs to the Indo-European language family. The Armenian language has been influenced by contact with neighboring languages and cultures, such as Greek, Persian and Arabic.…

Tagore, a famous Bengali poet, writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature (1913), found Dresden an inspiring environment that fostered his creative work. Dresden was a center for art and culture in Germany during Tagore's time.

Bulgarian painter and graphic artist Ljuben Stoev, who died in 2016, studied under Lea Grundig at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in the early 1960s. His nephew, the Dresden artist Ray van Zeschau, followed in his uncle's footsteps, sold his apartment in Sofia and brought his art back to the place where it all began, fulfilling, albeit posthumously, his uncle's greatest wish to be able to exhibit in Dresden once again.

The exhibition pavilion of the then Chinese Empire for the First International Hygiene Exhibition has been located in Dresden Bühlau since 1911. Today, the Chinese Pavilion is a cultural and neighborhood center.

Language German is like a thriller. The verb usually only comes at the very end of the sentence and explains what it is actually about. And then there are the…

Coventry and Dresden signed the twinning agreement in 1959. This makes Dresden the oldest sister city and a symbol of reconciliation and the will for peace. Both cities were badly destroyed in the Second World War and shook hands afterwards.

Our Saxon Sun King was called August. He shaped our wonderful city skyline with his architecture, in keeping with the French spirit of the time. Today, the Institut français in Dresden's old town is a meeting place for Francophiles.

The ancient sculptures of the Dresden State Art Collections in the Semper Gallery are probably the oldest Greek heritage in Dresden and the largest collection outside the Mediterranean region.