Leipzig, cried Leipsic in Inglis an aw, is, wi a population o appr. 519,000, the lairgest ceety in the federal state o Saxony, Germany an in the new states o Germany. In the 17t century, Leipzig wis ane o the major European ceety-centres o learnin an cultur in fields such as muisic, astronomy an optics. Efter Warld War II, Leipzig became a major urban centre athin the Communist German Democratic Republic.