Die Welt

:"Die Welt" is also the name of a weekly publication founded in 1897 by Theodor Herzl in Vienna as organ of the zionist movement.

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Die Welt is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer company. It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, and takes a centre-right political position (in its own words, "liberal cosmopolitan").

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The average circulation of Die Welt is about 209,000 currently, and the paper can be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear in Berlin and Hamburg, and in 2002 the paper experimented with a Bavarian edition. A daily regional supplement also appears in Bremen. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with the Berliner Morgenpost.

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The newspaper currently publishes a compact edition entitled Welt Kompakt a 48-page cut-down version of the main broadsheet.

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Die Welt is the flagship publication, within the so-called quality newspaper market, of the Axel Springer empire. Its leading competitors are the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the S?ddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. Financially, it has been a lossmaker for many years.

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Die Welt was founder member of the European Dailies Alliance (EDA), within which it has a longstanding co-operation with comparable daily newspapers from other countries, including the Daily Telegraph (UK), Le Figaro (France) and ABC (Spain).

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The paper does not appear on Sundays, but the linked publication Welt am Sonntag takes its place.

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1897: 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar)....

Theodor Herzl: Theodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) was an Austrian Jewish journalist who became the founder of modern political Zionism. His Hebrew personal names were Binyamin Ze'ev....

Vienna: :This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. For other places or things called Vienna, see Vienna (disambiguation)....

Die Welt related Images and Photos (experimental)

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