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Riesa-Großenhain was a district in Saxony, Germany. It was bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Elbe-Elster and Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg, Kamenz, Meißen, Döbeln and Torgau-Oschatz.

Key facts

German district.name
Riesa-Großenhain
German district.state
Saxony
German district.dissolved
2008-08-01
German district.capital
Großenhain
German district.regierungsbezirk
Dresden
German district.area
820.51
German district.population
120,539
German district.population_as_of
2001
German district.carsign
RG
German district.map
saxony_rg.png

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Riesa-Großenhain was a district in Saxony, Germany. It was bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Elbe-Elster and Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg, Kamenz, Meißen, Döbeln and Torgau-Oschatz.

== History == The district was created in 1994 by merging the two previous districts Riesa and Großenhain. In August 2008, it was incorporated into the district of Meißen.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riesa-Großenhain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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