Zielona Góra (Poland)
- twin city in the neighbouring area
- Polish centre of the Euroregion "Szprewa-Nysa-Bóbr"
- 130,000 citizens, 20,000 students
- annual relay race "from town hall to town hall"
- active partnership relation
- annual agreement concerning common planned activities which are signed by the lord mayors of the cities
- representative of numerous activities outside the administration: German-Polish Association
- since 1975 twin city of Cottbus
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Kosice (Slovakia)
- second largest city of Slovakia (240,000 inhabitants)
- beautifully reorganised Old Town
- twin city of Cottbus since 1978
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Targovischte (Bulgaria)
- beautifully placed city in the foothills of the Balkan mountains
- city is on the way back to the commercial metropolis after the social change
- 61,000 citizens
- twin city of Cottbus since 1975
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Montreuil (France)
- industrial city in the direct neighbourhood of Paris
- partnership between cities - originating from the 1950s - is part of the first cities in Europe at all
- 100,000 citizens
- partnership association: French-German Society
- twin city of Cottbus since 1959
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Grosseto (Italy)
- city in the south of the Toscana possesses a rich etrusk past
- old part of town with cathedral and fortification belong to the most beautiful ensembles concerning town construction between Pisa and Rome
- 80,000 citizens
- twin city of Cottbus since 1967
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Lipezk (Russia)
- city with 519,000 citizens on Woronesh river
- metallurgical centre founded by Peter I in the south of Moscow
- donations
- carriers of the most activities outside the administration: Friendship Association of Brandenburg e.V.
- twin city of Cottbus since 1974
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Nuneaton & Bedworth (United Kingdom and Northern Ireland)
- youngest twin city of Cottbus with a rich multicultural character
- 110,000 citizens
- placed between Birmingham and Coventry
- after signing the contract in 1999 an intensive pupil exchange began
- common photo exhibition "human beings in the portrait"
- the former mining industry centre experienced a similar structural change as Cottbus did after 1990
- twin city of Cottbus since 1999
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Saarbrücken (Germany)
- the process of coming off of the partnership and the following meetings between East and West belong to the beginning of the end of the GDR
- many citizens of Cottbus saw here for the first time the "West"
- the capital of the Land Saarland welcomed them
- 195,000 citizens
- twin city of Cottbus since 1987
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Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
- city in the "district" that passed the structural change successfully - away from coal and steel to new technologies and to the service company
- 272,445 citizens
- sponsor city of Cottbus in the context of the structure of the local autonomy
- many unselfish helpers came to Cottbus
- prominent and friendly guest in the "Stadion der Freundschaft": FC Schalke 04
- twin city of Cottbus since 1995
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