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Otto III was a member of the Ottonian dynasty. He was the Roman-German king from A.D. 983 and Holy Roman Emperor from 996 to 1002. He was elected as the German king when he was only three years old. During his minority the empire was managed by the empresses, Theophanu and Adelaide of Italy. During his reign the focus of the royal and imperial rule shifted to Italy and was characterised by very individual decisions. For example, Otto appointed his own candidates to the papacy in opposition to the rebellious Roman nobility: his trusted cousin, Bruno of Carinthia, as Pope Gregory V and Gerbert of Aurillac as Pope Sylvester II. In Poland, a church organization independent of the kingdom was established. Otto had to flee in 1001 after a revolt by Rome. His attempt at reconquest failed owing to his untimely death. His body was buried in Aachen.
Geography
Mountains: Harz - Brocken - List of mountains and hills in Saxony-Anhalt - List of mountains in the Harz
Rivers: Aland - Aller - Bode - Dosse - Eine - Elbe - Hassel - Havel - Helme - Holtemme - Ilse - Jeetzel - Luppbode - Mulde - Ohre - Rappbode - Saale - Salzwedel Dumme - Schlenze - Schwarze Elster - Tanger - Unstrut - Weisse Elster - Wipper - Wustrow Dumme - Zillierbach
Important cities and towns: Magdeburg - Aschersleben - Bernburg (Saale) - Bitterfeld-Wolfen - Blankenburg (Harz) - Burg - Calbe (Saale) - Dessau-Roßlau - Eisleben - Freyburg (Unstrut) - Gardelegen - Genthin - Gernrode - Halberstadt - Haldensleben - Halle (Saale) - Havelberg - Hettstedt - Jessen (Elster) - Kalbe (Milde) - Klötze - Köthen (Anhalt) - Leuna - Merseburg - Naumburg (Saale) - Oebisfelde - Oschersleben (Bode) - Quedlinburg - Salzwedel - Sangerhausen - Schönebeck (Elbe) - Staßfurt - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Tangermünde - Thale - Weißenfels - Wernigerode - Wittenberg - Zeitz - Zerbst/Anhalt
Regions: Altmark - Harz - Saale-Unstrut Region
Landscapes: Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Eastphalia - Fläming - Geisel valley - Harz Foreland - Magdeburg Börde
Districts and independent towns: Anhalt-Bitterfeld - Altmarkkreis Salzwedel - Börde - Burgenlandkreis - Dessau-Roßlau - Harz - Halle (Saale) - Jerichower Land - Magdeburg - Mansfeld-Südharz - Saalekreis - Salzlandkreis - Stendal - Wittenberg
History
History: Nebra sky disc - Thietmar of Merseburg - Eike von Repgow - Province of Saxony - Anhalt - Province of Halle - Province of Magdeburg - Albert the Bear - Cardinal Albert - Reformation - Ascania - Fruitbearing Society
Historic people: Henry the Fowler - Otto I - Otto II - Otto III - Margrave of Gero - Leopold III Frederick Franz - Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Samuel Hahnemann - Otto von Guericke
World Heritage Sites: Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg - Luther sites in Eisleben and Wittenberg - Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Bauhaus Dessau
Transport, Tourism and Media
Transport: America Line - Magdeburg Water Bridge - Mittelland Canal - Elbe-Havel Canal - Elbe - Havel - Leipzig/Halle Airport
Tourism: Romanesque Road - Arendsee - Via Regia
Media: MDR - Sputnik
Personlities
Art: Lucas Cranach - Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee
Philosophy: Friedrich Schleiermacher - Christian Thomasius - Christian Wolff - Philipp Melanchthon
Pedagogy: Johann Bernhard Basedow - August Hermann Francke
Literature: Clemens Brentano - Gottfried August Bürger - Johann Gleim - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Carl Immermann - Wilhelm Müller - Novalis.
Technology: Hans Grade - Hugo Junkers
Medicine: Dorothea Erxleben - Johann Christian Reil
Music: Heinrich Schütz - Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - Georg Friedrich Händel - Carl Friedrich Abel - Kurt Weill - Tokio Hotel - Lied für Sachsen-Anhalt - Handel Festival, Halle
Religion: Martin Luther - Justus Jonas - Johannes Bugenhagen - Mechthild of Magdeburg - Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Erzbischof Wichmann
Politics: Otto von Bismarck - Wolfgang Böhmer - Hans Dietrich Genscher
TV: Dieter Hallervorden
Miscellaneous:
Sport: Stefan Kretzschmar - SC Magdeburg - 1. FC Magdeburg (List of 1. FC Magdeburg players) - Hallescher FC - Germania Halberstadt - Erich Rademacher - Gustav-Adolf Schur - Waldemar Cierpinski - 1. FC Aschersleben
Folk festivals:
Miscellaneous: Magdeburg hemispheres
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