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Bayreuth

Bayreuth ranks 901st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Szombathely, Luhansk, and Blois. Memorable people born in Bayreuth include Max Stirner, Robert Ritter von Greim, and Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Memorable people who died in Bayreuth include Franz Liszt, Cosima Wagner, and Jean Paul. Bayreuth has been the birth place of many politicians, and composers and the death place of many politicians, and composers. Bayreuth is located in Germany.

Bayreuth is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of Upper Franconia and has a population of 72,148 (2015). It hosts the annual Bayreuth Festival, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Read more on Wikipedia