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Altenburg (listen (help·info) ) is a city inThuringia, in eastern Germany, located 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Leipzig, 90 kilometres (56 miles) west of Dresden and 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Erfurt. The dialect spoken in Altenburg is saxon.

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  • Wenn man den Esel nennt, kommt er auch gerennt.
    • English equivalent: Talk of the devil and you ll see his horns.
    • von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "691, Wolfe" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. pp. 392–394. 

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