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Definition: German Democratic Republic |
German Democratic RepublicNoun1. A republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: German Democratic RepublicSynonym: East Germany (n). (additional references) |
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Business | It is effective for tax years beginning after 1989 (effective January 1, 1991, for the area that was the German Democratic Republic. (references) | |
The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), which is the successor party to the SED (the communist party of the former German Democratic Republic). (references) | ||
Economic History | Germany | Under Soviet direction, a constitution was drafted on May 30, 1949, and adopted on October 7, which was celebrated as the day when the German Democratic Republic was proclaimed. (references) |
Germany | With unification on October 3, 1990, Germany began the major task of bringing the standard of living of Germans in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) up to that of western Germany. (references) | |
Germany | Founded: 1949 (Basic Law, i.e., constitution, promulgated on May 23, 1949). On October 3, 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic unified in accordance with Article 23 of the FRG Basic Law. (references) | |
Political Economy | Germany | The new states of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) contain millions of voters, and the government is seeking to bring them up to the economic standards of western Germany as quickly as possible. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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german democratic republic | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "German Democratic Republic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Saksan demokraattinen tasavalta (the German Democratic Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | deutsche demokratische republik (East Germany, GDR), ddr (East Germany, GDR). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | német demokratikus köztársaság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ドイツ民主共'国 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ドイツみ"しゅきょうわ"く. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermangay emocraticday epublicray "ерманская "емократическая еспублика, "" . (various references) nemačka demokratska republika (gdr). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 72 6D 61 6E      44 65 6D 6F 63 72 61 74 69 63      52 65 70 75 62 6C 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01010010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01100010 01101100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e r m a n   D e m o c r a t i c   R e p u b l i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0072 006D 0061 006E      0044 0065 006D 006F 0063 0072 0061 0074 0069 0063      0052 0065 0070 0075 0062 006C 0069 0063 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718479678023871798169846786756925271828768787569 |
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