Koblenz. The name describes the position of the town, because Koblenz (still sometimes seen in its quaint, old-fashioned
spelling, Coblentz) developed from the small fort at the point where the Mosel flows into the Rhine which the Romans called
"ad confluentes" - at the meeting of the waters.


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