Munich

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Munich is Germany's third largest city and the capital of the federal state of Bavaria. Munich is assumed to be settle since the 8th century, but it was mentioned for the first time in official documents in 1156 as a settlement of Benedictine monks. The name Munich, or München in German, is said to refer to those monks. In Italian Munich is know as Monaco di Baviera.

In 1919, following Germany's defeat in the First World War, the city was briefly a Communist utopia. In 1923, it was the scene of the beer hall Putsch that failed to bring Adolf Hitler's NSDAP to power, and was called the "Capital of the Movement" during the Third Reich, i.e. the Hitler movement.

In post-war Germany Munich became a center for high-tech industry. It is also a center of brewing, with the Löwenbräu, Spaten, and HB brands being particularly notable. Munich is best known as the home of F.C. Bayern München, Germany's most sucessful football club, and TSV 1860 München, a smaller and less successful club that is more popular in Munich.