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  • duchy, were styled dukes by decree of the German king, and exercised imperial ... and secured the existence of the Swiss Confederation within the Holy Roman ...
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  • : German: Genfersee or Genfer See /'gɛnfərˌze:/ ... . Both tribes originally spoke ancient German, but learned Latin because ...
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  • 20, 1898) was a nineteenth century German novelist and poet. He was ... contact with many of the most renowned German writers such as Theodor Storm ...
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  • red commercial flag of the North German Confederation, which became the ... In 1815 Prussia became part of the German Confederation. ...
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  • the founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with New Brunswick ... (some French and Swiss but mostly German) at Lunenburg in 1753. In ...
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  • became known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for having hosted ... the process leading to the Articles of Confederation and the creation of Dominion ...
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  • such as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. ... Such organizations include the World Confederation of Labor and the World ...
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  • afterward, Liechtenstein joined the German Confederation (June 1815– August ... Diet. In 1868, after the German Confederation dissolved, Liechtenstein ...
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  • Soccer has even stopped wars. On Christmas Day 1914, German and British ... * Asia: Asian Football Confederation (AFC) * Africa: Confederation ...
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  • the period of the Cold War. Prior to German reunification, East Germany ... Europe was defined by nineteenth-century German nationalists to be synonymous ...
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  • the League to the rebuilding of the North German town of Lübeck in 1159 by ... German cities achieved domination of trade in the Baltic with striking ...
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  • ), officially Swiss Confederation ("Confoederatio Helvetica" ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...
    52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
  • to the Sackville region and the arrival of German speaking "Pennsylvania ... of Canada and entered into the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The Charlottetown ...
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  • self-government later took up the Anti-Confederation fight, the movement that ... from the United States. Canadian Confederation became a reality in 1867 ...
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  • education. The household spoke Yiddish and German; he soon learned Hebrew and ... where he studied philosophy, art history, German studies, and philology. In ...
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  • Anne of Cleves (September 22, 1515 – July 16, 1557) (German: Anna ... of Saxony, head of the Protestant Confederation of Germany and considered ...
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  • magistrates sought entry into the Swiss Confederation, which was granted in ... Switzerland is formally a confederation but similar in structure to ...
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  • In July 1806 Napoleon formed the Confederation of the Rhine out of the ... empire, Napoleon controlled the Swiss Confederation, the Confederation of ...
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  • , Zürich German: Züri [ˈtsyɾi] , Zurich [zyʁiʃ] , in English ... The grandson of Charlemagne, Louis the German, built a Carolingian castle ...
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  • Door" who guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from ... Door" who guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from ...
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