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Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt-am-Main. It had some 80,000 inhabitants as of 2013. A pre-Roman foundation, Worms was the capital of the kingdom of the Burgundians in the early 5th century and hence the scene of the medieval legends referring to this period, notably the first part of the ''Nibelungenlied''. Worms was a Roman Catholic bishopric since at least 614, and an important palatinate of Charlemagne. Worms Cathedral is one of the Imperial Cathedrals and among the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Germany. Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages as an Imperial Free City. Among more than a hundred Imperial Diets held at Worms, the Diet of 1521 (commonly known as ''the'' Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic. Today, the city is an industrial centre and is famed as the origin of ''Liebfraumilch'' wine. Other industries include chemicals and metal goods. ==Name== Worms' name is of Celtic origin: ''Borbetomagus'' meant "settlement in a watery area". This was eventually transformed into the Latin name ''Vormatia'', in use since the 6th century, which was preserved in the Medieval Hebrew form ''Vermayza'' (ורמייזא) and the contemporary Polish form ''Wormacja''. According to tradition, the name derives from when the legendary hero Siegfried slew a lindworm (dragon) near the city, as recounted in the ''Nibelungenlied''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Worms, Germany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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