1) Fulda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Fulda, (foolīda) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 58,710), Hesse, central Germany, on the Fulda River. It is a banking and financial center. Manufactures include textiles...
2) Kassel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Kassel, (kasīl) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 202,160), Hesse, central Germany, on the Fulda River. It is an industrial, rail, and cultural center. Manufactures include...
3) Einhard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...or Eginhard (aīginhart) (KEY) , c.770-840, Frankish historian. Educated in the monastery of Fulda, he continued his studies at Charlemagne's palace school in Aachen...
4) Weser. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed at Hannoversch-Munden, central Germany, by the junction of the Fulda and Werra rivers. It flows generally N past Minden, where it passes...
5) Eder. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., river, c.110 mi (180 km) long, rising near Siegen, central Germany, and flowing E to the Fulda River. The Eder dam, at Hemfurth, impounds one of the largest reservoirs...
6) Hannoversch-Munden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...or Munden (munīdn), town (1994 pop. 26,283), Lower Saxony, central Germany, where the Fulda and Werra rivers flow together to form the Weser River. Its manufactures...
7) Hildebrand, Lay of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...fragment of an epic in mixed Low and Old High German composed c.800 in the monastery of Fulda. Hildebrand, armorer of Dietrich of Bern (Theodoric the Great), returns...
8) Gottschalk. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...German theologian; son of the count of Saxony. He was placed as a boy in the monastery of Fulda (c.822). He did not wish to be a monk but was forced by Rabanus Maurus...
9) Rabanus Maurus Magnentius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His name appears also as Hrabanus and Rhabanus. A student under Alcuin, he was later abbot of Fulda (822-42); his zeal for learning and his excellent administration...
10) abbey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the 8th cent., abbeys were often important centers of learning and peaceful arts and, like Fulda, were sometimes the nuclei of future towns. The buildings surround...
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