Aachen Germany

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<p><b>Aachen</b>, also known as <b>Bad Aachen</b> is a <a href="/pages/w/111284638900571">spa town</a> in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the foot of the <a href="/pages/w/112167255461677">Eifel</a> and <a href="/pages/w/112247578788021">Ardennes Plateaus</a>. Sometimes in English , the city is referred to as <b>Aix-la-Chapelle</b>. Aachen was a favoured residence of <a href="/pages/w/105529709481399">Charlemagne</a>, and later the place of coronation of the <a href="/pages/w/109206432444389">German kings</a>, which is where it gained the reference as the "watering-place of kings." Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost city of Germany, located along its borders with <a href="/pages/w/107891469239125">Belgium</a> and the <a href="/pages/w/106123262753066">Netherlands</a>, west-southwest of <a href="/pages/w/105525356147328">Cologne</a>. It is located within a former coal-mining region, and this fact was important in its economic history. <a href="/pages/w/103130426393616">RWTH Aachen University</a>, one of <a href="/pages/w/112806052101871">Germany's Universities of Excellence</a>, is located in the city. Aachen's predominant economic focus is on science, engineering, information technology and related sectors. In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.</p><h2>Name</h2><p>The name <i>Aachen</i> is a modern descendant, like southern <a href="/pages/w/105673612800327">German</a> <i>Ach(e)</i>, <i>Aach</i> ‘river, stream’, of <a href="/pages/w/103969169640336">Old High German</a> <i>aha</i> ‘water; stream’ which directly translates <a href="/pages/w/108513039169313">Latin</a> <i>Aquae</i>, referring to the springs. The location has been inhabited by humans since the <a href="/pages/w/109431425741819">Neolithic</a> era, approximately 5,000 years ago, attracted to its warm <a href="/pages/w/111015352252137">mineral spring</a>s. Latin <i>Aquae</i> figures in Aachen’s <a href="/pages/w/112534848759184">Roman</a> name <i>Aquae granni</i>, which meant ‘<a href="/pages/w/133353063371792">Grannus</a>’ waters’, referring to the <a href="/pages/w/105700039462358">Celtic</a> god of healing who was worshiped at the springs. This word became <i>Åxhe</i> in <a href="/pages/w/103121669728142">Walloon</a> and <i>Aix</i> in French, and subsequently <i>Aix-la-Chapelle</i> after <a href="/pages/w/105529709481399">Charlemagne</a> had a cathedral built there in the late 8th century and then made the city his empire’s capital.</p>

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