Thuringia (German :Thüringen ) is aBundesland ofGermany . It lies in central Germany and has an area of 16,251 km2 (6,274.5 sq mi ). This means Thuringia is the sixth smallest state in Germany byarea . It has 2.1 million inhabitants,[ 1] population . Thecapital isErfurt .
1920 theGrand Duchy ofSaxe-Weimar , theDuchies ofSaxe-Meiningen ,Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Gotha (part ofSaxe-Coburg and Gotha ) and thePrincipalities ofSchwarzburg-Sondershausen ,Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ,Greiz andGera united to make theFree State of Thuringia. 1949 Thuringia andErfurt became a new state of theDDR 1952 It became divided in three DistrictsBezirke (Erfurt ,Gera andSuhl ) 1990Thuringia became aBundesland in the reunited Germany. Thuringia borders on the German states ofLower Saxony ,Saxony-Anhalt ,Saxony ,Bavaria andHesse .The most conspicuous geographical feature of Thuringia is theThuringia Forest (Thüringer Wald). In the northwest Thuringia includes a small part of theHarz mountains. TheSaale river runs throughJena .The biggest mountain in Thuringia is with 982m theGroßer Beerberg in theThuringia Forest .
1945: Hermann Brill 1945 - 1947: Rudolf Paul 1947 - 1952: Werner Eggerath 1990 - 1992: Josef Duchac 1992 - 2003:Bernhard Vogel (CDU ) 2003 - 2009:Dieter Althaus (CDU) 2009 - 2014:Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) since 2014:Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke )
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