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Würzburg is a city in the traditional region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. At the next-down tier of local government, it is the administrative seat of Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main.
Würzburg is about 120 kilometers (75 mi) from Frankfurt am Main, to the west, and Nuremberg (Nürnberg), to the east. The city has around 130,000 residents.
The regional dialect is East Franconian.
The city is outside of the Landkreis Würzburg (district of Würzburg) but has its administrative center.
A Bronze Age (Urnfield culture) refuge castle, the Celtic Segodunum, and later a Roman fort, stood on the hill known as the Leistenberg, the site of the present Fortress Marienberg. The former Celtic territory was settled by the Alamanni in the 4th or 5th century, and by the Franks in the 6th to 7th. Würzburg was the seat of a Merovingian duke from about 650. It was Christianized in 686 by Irish missionaries Kilian, Kolonat, and Totnan. The city is mentioned in a donation by Duke Hedan II to bishop Willibrord, dated 1 May 704, in castellum Virteburch. The Ravenna Cosmography lists the city as Uburzis at about the same time. The name is presumably of Celtic origin, but based on a folk etymological connection to the German word Würze “herb, spice”, the name was Latinized as Herbipolis in the medieval period. Wikipedia
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