Trier

Trier
Main Mercat Place
Coat of arms
Trier
Coordinates: 49°45′24″N 6°38′29″E
Kintra	Germany
State	default: Rhineland-Palatinate
Destrict	Urban district
Government
• Laird Mayor	Klaus Jensen (SPD)
Area
• Tot	117.14 km2 (45.23 sq mi)
Population (2011-12-31)
• Tot	105,675
• Density	900/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54290, 54292, 54293, 54294, 54295, 54296
Diallin codes	0651
Vehicle registration	TR
Website	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 also: 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.