Bad Ems
| Town and spa in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the River Lahn, 17 km/11 mi south of Koblenz; population (1994) 10,200. The peak years of the spa were 1875–1914. |
| From here in 1870 Emperor William I sent a communication (the ‘Ems Telegram’) to his chancellor Otto von Bismarck, which precipitated the Franco-Prussian War. |
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