Rostock
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Coat of Arms of Rostock with the griffin
Rostock is a city in the north-east of Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It has about 200,000 inhabitants and an old university.
Rostock is located on the Baltic Sea. A district of the city, Warnemünde, is famous for its long beaches.
The city today carries the name Hansestadt (Hanseatic city) in memory of its history, where it has been an important part of the Hanseatic League. The architecture of the city and the region is influenced by this historic period.
Other major Hanseatic cities today are: Hamburg, Lübeck, Wismar, Stralsund, Bremen, Greifswald and Demmin.
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