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Hamburg History
The city centre of Hamburg, a moated fortress called Hammaburg was built in the 9th century. Further it became the missionary stronghold. The city’s development started in the 12th century and it rises as the trading power. The free trade rights and the exemption from the pesky custom tariffs were implemented by the Adolf III, who scored a royal charter from the Emperor Friedrich. Politically neutral Hamburg concentrated on developing trade, founding the Börse, Hamburg's stock exchange established in 1558, and in the 17th century, a merchant navy to guard its trading vessels. Hamburg's trading ambitions were interrupted briefly by the annexation of Germany into the Napoleonic Empire, but once the French tyrant was toppled it was business as usual. The city suffered a major blow with the Great Fire of 1842, which leveled a third of the city, but it soon dusted itself off and set about rebuilding. By 1913, the city was among Europe's top ports, trading with Africa, South America and Asia, and with a population of well over a million. In the WWI reparations most of its 1500-ship merchant navy was deprived, and in WWII more than four-fifths of the port and two-fifths of the city's industrial area was destroyed. The firestorm created by Allied bombing on 28 July 1943 killed more than 50,000 civilians and burnt out entire streets and neighborhoods. Today, Hamburg is Germany's second-biggest city after Berlin. Some 68,000 students study at nine institutions - the largest is the University of Hamburg, with 42,000 students. With 15% of its population immigrants, the city has a cosmopolitan flair that has returned to Hamburg its title of Germany's Gateway to the World.
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