Schönthal is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Cham
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Ethnicities and languages
*Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia
**Cham language, the language of the Cham people
***Cham script
***Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script
*Cham Albanian ...
in
Bavaria
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in
Germany
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.
It was formerly the location of
Schönthal Priory, secularised in 1802.
References
Cham (district)
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