Kreis is the German word for
circle
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is con ...
.
Kreis may also refer to:
Places
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circle
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is con ...
s, various subdivisions roughly equivalent to counties, districts or municipalities
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Districts of Germany (including and )
** Former
districts of Prussia
Prussian districts (german: Kreise, literally "circles") were administrative units in the former Kingdom of Prussia, part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, and its successor state, the Free State of Prussia, similar to a county or a shir ...
, also known as
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''Kreise'' of the former Electorate of Saxony
*, or
Imperial Circles, ceremonial associations of several regional monarchies () and/or imperial cities () in the Holy Roman Empire
People
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Harold Kreis (born 1959), Canadian-German ice hockey coach
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Jason Kreis (born 1972), American soccer player
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Melanie Kreis
Melanie Kreis (born 1971) is a German businesswoman, member of the board of managing directors and the chief financial officer (CFO) of Deutsche Post, the world's largest logistics company, since October 2016.
Education
Kreis attended the St ...
(born 1971), German businesswoman
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Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), German architect
Music and culture
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Der Kreis
(, ''The Circle'') was a Swiss gay magazine that was published from 1932 to 1967 and distributed internationally.
History
was first published on January 1, 1932, under the original title (''Friendship Banner'') as a joint project of Laura Th ...
'', a Swiss gay magazine
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''Kreise'' (album), a 2017 album by Johannes Oerding
See also
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Krai
A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR.
Etymologically, the word is relat ...
, an administrative division in Russia
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Kraj
A kraj ( ''kraje'') is the highest-level administrative unit in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. For lack of other English expressions, the Slavic term is often translated as "province", "region", or "territory", although it approxim ...
, an administrative division in Czechia and Slovakia
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Okręg
District is a term used in Poland, to denote regions and jurisdictions of various types, including electoral constituencies. As historical administrative subdivisions of Poland, districts existed in the later part of the Congress Poland
Con ...
, an administrative division in Poland
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Okres, an administrative division in Czechia and Slovakia
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Okrug
An ''okrug, ; russian: о́круг, ókrug; sr, округ, okrug, ; uk, о́круг, о́kruh; be, акруга, akruha; pl, okręg; ab, оқрҿс; mhr, йырвел, '' is a type of administrative division in some Slavic states. Th ...
, an administrative division of some Slavic states
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