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{{Short description|Natural region unit in southern Lower Saxony, Germany}}
The '''Ambergau''' is a historic landscape and natural region unit in the [[Innerste Uplands]] in southern [[Lower Saxony]], Germany. It is a basin, about 10 x 10 kilometres across, with 18 settlements (there were 31 in the [[Middle Ages]]), the centre and capital of which since the 13th century is the town of [[Bockenem]]. The basin, with its fertile agricultural fields, is surrounded by the wooded ridges of [[Heber (ridge)|Heber]], the [[Harplage]], the Weinberg and the [[Hainberg (ridge)|Hainberg]]. The ''[[Gau (landscape)|Gau]]'' is a [[cultural landscape]] that was formed as early as the 8th century.
[[File:Innerstebergland.jpg|thumb|250px|Location of the Ambergau in the Innerste Uplands]]
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