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Lower Saxony
New Town Hall, Hannover, Ger.
Lower Saxony was established on November 1, 1946, by the British military government. The state was created through the merger of the former Prussian province of Hanover with the states of Braunschweig, Oldenburg, and Schaumburg-Lippe.1