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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Bavaria
- Adm region
- Middle Franconia
- Capital
- Roth
- District admin
- Ben Schwarz ( SPD )
- Total
- 895 km (346 sq mi)
- Density
- 144/km (372/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- RH, HIP
- Website
- www .landkreis-roth .de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Roth is a Landkreis (district) in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northeast and clockwise) the districts of Nürnberger Land, Neumarkt, Eichstätt, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Ansbach and Fürth, and the cities of Schwabach and Nürnberg.
In medieval times the area was ruled by many lords. Brandenburg-Ansbach and Nuremberg owned possessions in the territory, and other parts were the property of clerical states. When these clerical states were dissolved in 1803, the territory fell to Bavaria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.