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Saxony-Anhalt
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Dessau
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Zerbst
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1225
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79,500
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1999
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AZE
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http://wwwanhalt-zerbstde
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is a district in
Saxony-Anhalt ,
Germany . It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts
Potsdam-Mittelmark (
Brandenburg ) and
Wittenberg , the city of
Dessau and the districts of
Köthen ,
Schönebeck and
Jerichower Land .
While Zerbst is a small town today, it once was together with
Dessau one of the two central cities of
Anhalt . When the state of Anhalt was dissolved in
1603 , one of the
Successor State s was the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst. It was a small state with almost no political power. In
1793 the line of the princes became extinct, and Anhalt-Zerbst was annexed by the neighbouring principality of .
The present district was established in 1994 by merging the former districts of Zerbst and Roßlau with parts of the former district of Gräfenhainichen. Its borders are roughly identical with the ancient principality.
Catherine II of
Russia was by birth a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst.
Anhalt-Zerbst comprises plain countryside north of the
Elbe River. The Elbe enters the district in the east, runs through the southeastern part and then forms the southern and western border of Anhalt-Zerbst. The Elbe banks within the district are part of the . The north is occupied by the southern portions of the
Fläming plateau.
