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Extract from the Straubing Travel Guides:
About 30km downstream from Regensburg,
STRAUBING
is the main market town of the fertile Guboden region, one of the country's principal granaries. In 1353, as a result of a division of the Wittelsbach lands, it was united with the Netherlandish provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Friesland and Hainaut to form the Duchy of Straubing-Holland. Although this only survived until 1425, and although The Hague was the ducal capital, with Straubing the seat of a secondary court run by a relative of the ruling duke, it was nonetheless a true golden age for the town, and most of its finest monuments date from then. Nowadays, Straubing is best known for...
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