Facts in brief:
Located on Fulda river; grew up around abbey founded by disciple of St. Boniface; became great medieval seat of learning & culture, & missionary center; abbots were princes of Holy Roman Empire; bishopric secularized in 1802; ruled by Prussia from 1866.
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