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  • 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...
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  • Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... barbarians, followed by the Franks under Charles Martell. After a long period ...
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  • The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...
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  • The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...
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  • [[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...
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  • 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...
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  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...
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  • for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...
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  • courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...
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  • (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...
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  • Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to ...
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