Elsfleth, a maritime town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Oldenburg, in a fertile district at the confluence of the Hunte with the Weser, on the railway Hude-Nordenham in the Landkreis of Wesermarsch, Lower Saxony. Pop. 2000 (1911). It has an Evangelical church, a school of navigation, a harbour and docks. It has considerable trade in corn and timber and is one of the centres of the North Sea herring fishery. From the latin maritimus, maritime refers to things relating to the sea. ... Oldenburg (Low Saxon: Ollnborg) is an Independent City in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... The Hunte is a 198 km long river in north-western Germany (Lower Saxony). ... Weser watershed The Weser is a river of north-western Germany. ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ... Wesermarsch is a Kreis (district) in the northwestern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Family Clupeidae The herring is a type of small oily fish found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic. ...

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