Platten may refer to:
People
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Fritz Platten
Fritz Platten (8 July 1883 – 22 April 1942) was a Swiss communist politician and one of the founders of the Communist International.
Early life
Platten was born in the village of Tablat, now part of St. Gallen, on 8 July 1883, to an Old Catho ...
(1883–1942), Swiss communist
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John Platten (born 1963), Australian rules footballer
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Rachel Platten
Rachel Ashley Platten (born May 20, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and author. After releasing two albums independently in 2003 and 2011, she signed with Columbia Records in 2015 and released her mainstream debut single, "Fight Song (Ra ...
(born 1981), American singer and songwriter
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Stephen George Platten (born 1947), Bishop of Wakefield (Church of England)
Places
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Platten, Germany
Platten () is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The municipality lies on the river ...
, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* ''Platten'', the German name for
Blatno (Chomutov District)
Blatno () is a municipality and village in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Blatno lies approximately north-west of Chomutov, west of Ústí nad Labem, and north-west of Pragu ...
, a village in the Czech Republic
* ''Bergstadt Platten'', the German name for
Horní Blatná
Horní Blatná () is a town in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. The town is historically associated with tin mining and is located in the Ore Mountain Mining Region, which is a UN ...
, a town in the Czech Republic
Other uses
* An alternate spelling of
platen
A platen (or platten) is a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress printing. Platen may al ...
, a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing
See also
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Lake Platten-See or Lake Balaton, a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary
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Platen (disambiguation)
A platen
A platen (or platten) is a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress printing. Pla ...
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