Trier

Trier
Main Mercat Place
Coordinates	49°45′24″N 6°38′29″E
Admeenistration
Kintra	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
Destrict	Urban destrict
Laird Mayor	Klaus Jensen (SPD)
Basic statistics
Aurie	117.14 km2 (45.23 sq mi)
Elevation	124 m  (407 ft)
Population	105,675 (31 Dizember 2011)
- Density	902 /km2 (2,336 /sq mi)
Ither information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	TR
Postal codes	54290, 54292, 54293, 54294, 54295, 54296
Aurie code	0651
Wabsteid	www.trier.de

Trier, historically cried in Inglis Treves; French: Trèves; Luxembourgis: Tréier; Laitin: Augusta Treverorum; the Laitin adjective associated wi the ceety is Treverensis) is a ceety in Germany on the banks o the Moselle. It is the auldest ceety in Germany, foondit in or afore 16 BC.

Trier lies in a valley atween law vine-covered hills o ruddy sandstone in the wast o the state o Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border wi Luxembourg an athin the important Mosel wine region.

Wi an approximate population o 100,000 Trier is the fowert lairgest ceety in the state o Rhineland-Paltinate efter Mainz, Ludwigshafen, an Koblenz. The nearest lairge ceeties in Germany are Saarbrücken, some 80 km sootheast, an Koblenz, aboot 100 km northeast. The closest ceety tae Trier is the ceety o Luxembourg, some 50 km tae the soothwast.

International relations

Trier is a fellae member o the QuattroPole union o ceeties, alang wi Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, an Metz (neighbourin kintras: Luxembourg an France).

Twin touns – Sister ceeties

See an aw: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Germany

Trier is twinned wi:

Metz, Fraunce syne 1957 Gloucester, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1957 Ascoli Piceno, Italy, syne 1958

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, syne 1968 Pula-Pola, Croatia, syne 1971 Fort Worth, Texas, USA syne 1987

Weimar, Germany syne 1990 Nagaoka, Japan, syne 2006 Xiamen, Cheenae, syne 2010

Namesakes

• New Trier Tounship, USA. oreeginally settled bi fowk frae Trier.
• New Trier, USA settled bi fowk frae Trier aboot 1856.