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- in India or elsewhere in the British Empire held no attraction for him ... tutor, Herr Otto Kuntze, who taught him German and interested him in German ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- rabbinical legends, his mother read him German stories. ... surname. In 1910 this was translated into German. Since then, his works have ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- was then the largest periodical publishing empire in the world, Amalgamated Press. ... those articles, Harmsworth described the German army and warned that Britain ...9 KB (1,294 words) - 07:18, 20 July 2023
- Korea had been annexed by the Japanese Empire, and remained under the control ... IOC member and then-president of the (FRG) German Olympic Committee, presented ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- The name "Löw" or "Loew" is derived from the ... family seems to have originated from the German town of Worms. His birth ...15 KB (2,356 words) - 08:30, 12 May 2024
- Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ... In university rankings of German magazines and periodicals the Albert ...21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- An early German influence came from Goethe, whose 1774 novel The Sorrows ... to rationalism. Other important motifs in German Romanticism are traveling ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- | nationality = German Empire Germany|name=Germany | field = Physicist ... – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- As the Roman Empire spread throughout Europe and Northern Africa they ... In the latter stages of the Roman Empire, around the fourth and fifth ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- Dutch Republic) entered on the Holy Roman Empire's side to check French ... realms, he would have control of a vast empire that would have threatened ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- Not only is it the smallest German-speaking country in the world, ... is the only country with a predominantly German-speaking population that ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- He maintained peace with the Holy Roman Empire during the first three decades ... to her husband's court accompanied by German knights.Chronicon Pictum. ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. On January 1 ... successor states of Austria-Hungary, whose Empire had been slowly losing ground ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- meaning for its name (related to the German verb for "build" ... The conservative modernization of the German Empire during the 1870s ...21 KB (3,071 words) - 03:07, 26 September 2023
- their empires by carving up former German and Ottoman Empire possession ... nation-states in the place of the old Russian Empire). The White Army ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- authority of Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire and its vassal the Crimean ... the Hetmanate into the Russian Empire. On May 7, 1775, from a direct ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- view associates Shambhala with the real empire of Sriwijaya where Buddhist ... Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia (2006), 454 ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- the legal methods of execution in the German Empire (1871-1918) and Weimar ... The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- of Alexander the Great, through the Roman Empire, to the British and Napoleonic ... West Europe was shaped by the Roman Empire, from which many of its laws ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Japanese empire, referred to themselves as ... his adherence to the treaty), leading to a German occupation of Yugoslavia in April. ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Hoover. He then became president of the Empire State, Inc. and was instrumental ... His four grandparents were Irish, German, Italian, and English, but ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms of wrong choices ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist. He published ... or even produce disorders. True to the German ideas of the time, Krafft ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent ... 1,500 towns in Germany, one-third of all German towns. The edicts agreed ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- Fannie Snavely and Henry Hershey, of German and Swiss heritage, were ... printer who printed publications in German language. Milton, however ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- as the western section of the Mongol empire was called, fixed his golden ... that Moscow, and subsequently the Russian Empire, would not have risen. Trade ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician, astronomer ... known as Johannes Germanus (Johann the German), Johannes Francus (Johannes ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- importance as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Since it was the only access ... visitors from throughout the Austrian Empire. The leading hotels--the ...10 KB (1,532 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... in World War I, of "an insult to the German heroes of the great war" ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- 428, briefly being annexed to the Roman Empire by Trajan from 114 to 118 ... The region was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517 and eventually taken ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- His work was significant for the post-war German theater's revival. ... began a study of philosophy and German language and literature at ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 11:01, 11 April 2024
- Isles to be invaded and occupied by German forces during the war. place. The occupation did, however, boost German morale. It also had significant ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia ... German states united to form a powerful German Empire, the Emperor of France ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Sirens are sometimes considered to be the forerunners of the German ... 2006. The legend was first created by the German author Clemens Brentano in ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- The Mongol Empire (Mongolian: Их Монгол Улс, meaning "Great ... After unifying the Mongol–Turkic tribes, the Empire expanded via ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- elites from the West generally spoke French or German. On arriving into some villages dressed appropriately and singing and dancing, putting into practice ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- of World War I and one of the Ottoman Empire's most costly victories ... effective supply route to Russia. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary blocked ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- out of the window" (From Latin and German). The first defenestration ... Roman Emperor Charles IV—preached in German; with minimal effect on common ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- could escape. When the Envoy for the German Empire, Klemens Freiherr von ... 12,020), French (3,520), American (3,420), German (900), Italian (80), Austro ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- for the eventual unification of the German princely states, which would ... and tutors and learned French and German simultaneously. ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- of 450,000. Before 1920 it went by the German name "Pressburg." ... * 100 C.E. - 500 C.E.: the border of the Roman Empire (Limes Romanus ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- into Asia. From as early as the Roman Empire until at least the Middle ... divided administration of the Roman Empire under Diocletian. However ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon ... I to describe the alliance between the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- Fascist Italian state and the Ethiopian Empire (also called Abyssinia). ... had long held a desire for a new Italian Empire. Reminiscent of the Roman ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- killed, and has been part of the Soviet empire. Moldova is one of the poorest ... at the time Chişinău was part of the Russian Empire. The city is ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- people from 434 C.E. until his death. His empire stretched from the Netherlands ... of cruelty and rapacity. Though his empire died with him, he became ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920) was a German political ... imperialist and wanted to enlarge the German empire to the east and the west. ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- states were ancient Egypt, the pagan Roman Empire, Fascist Germany and the ... In the Persian Empire, Zoroastrianism was the state religion of the ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- One of the most well known codes was the German "Enigma" machine ... *Kahn, David. Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- the division of Alexander the Great's empire. Alexander died at an early ... provided by international donors and the German artist Gert Hof. The new ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... His career spanned three years, until the German invasion, which began September ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- when Mozart was considered an icon of German art, the Jewish background ... different languages, including French, German, and Italian. While in Vienna ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- the Nazis had a law project that defined German nationality in exclusion ... The nation-state also differs from an empire, which is usually an expansive ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- Smolensk Oblast Guberniya of the Russian Empire. His father was a wealthy ... return to her, but when his sister's German maid turned up without the ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918), the German Empire (1871-1918), the Weimar ... Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire. ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- 30, 1846) was a leading nineteenth century German economist who believed in ... on fiscal policy. When Napoleon's empire fell, the ports of the continent ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) was one of the major figures ... of the Slovak language. Šafařík also wrote in German. ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- than that of Boyar. Towards the Ottoman Empire in Turkey he maintained an ... 4000 Poles, Lithuanians, Russian exiles, German mercenaries and Cossacks ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- Reith introduced the BBC's "Empire Service"—later ... occasion in the history of the British Empire; there must be few in any ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- That Sweden possessed a colonial empire is a less well known fact ... with Norway and governed a land-based empire in the Baltic including Finland ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- in World War I on the condition that all German spheres of influence in China ... in 1917, with the condition that all German spheres of influence, such ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- were neighbors (or confederates) of the Empire of the Onogurs in the sixth ... against the Eastern Frankish Empire (Germany) and Great Moravia ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- official document of the Holy Roman Empire".. On the one hand, ... the League to the rebuilding of the North German town of Lübeck in 1159 by ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- acquaintance with French, English and German, and a certain amount of ... which had enabled Bismark to create the German empire, it was thought that ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Was this the beginning of an American Empire, exploitative and self-serving ... On the other hand, some of the founding fathers did speak about empire ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- of traveling. During a notable trip to the Empire of Japan, a failed assassination ... in the hopes of preventing war with the German Empire. It proved too late for ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- from being a province in the Swedish Empire to an autonomous unit in ... the Franco-Prussian War, a Prussian-led German Empire was created, and a new ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- deteriorating situation of the Byzantine Empire in the east. The breakdown ... were putting strong pressure on the Byzantine Empire. A turning point ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- ) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic ... onwards. His mother insisted that he speak German and taught it to him. By ...17 KB (2,352 words) - 21:30, 5 September 2023
- central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405) in Central ... He ruled over an empire that extends in modern nations from south ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- |combatant2 = German Empire German Empire |commander1 = UK Douglas ... |commander2 = German Empire Max von GallwitzGerman Empire Fritz von Below ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- Empire signed an alliance with the German Empire prior to World War I ... the Crimea and Caucasus. Meanwhile, the German Empire of Prussia appealed to ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- The Austrian school owes its name to members of the German Historical ... came out twelve years later, battled the German Historical School, which ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden--"the ... at the time was losing to the Holy Roman Empire and its Catholic allies; ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony ... of Saxony, which was a part of the German Empire from 1871. During the ...25 KB (3,605 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- town of Brno, then part of the Austrian Empire. The battle, during the War ... made Austria cede land to Napoleon's German allies, and imposed an indemnity ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- The precocious Matthias quickly mastered German, Italian, Romanian, Latin ... his controversial prisoner. As the Ottoman Empire appeared to be increasingly ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- city, endured more than 700 years of German, Swedish, and Russian rule ... under the auspices of the Holy Roman (German) Empire. It was not until much ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (July 27, 1871, Berlin, German Empire – May 21, 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) was a German mathematician ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ... they occasionally toured the British Empire, George preferred to stay ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the ... in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- A German Princess and cousin to Gustav III of Sweden and Charles XIII ... During her reign, Catherine extended the borders of the Russian Empire ...19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- Prussia, enabling the creation of a German Empire in 1871. Otto von Bismarck ... the reunification of Austria with the German Empire that was enacted on 13 ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- duchy, were styled dukes by decree of the German king, and exercised imperial ... Swiss Confederation within the Holy Roman Empire. In 1353, Berne joined the ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- and the diplomatic relations of the Empire. He was also responsible ... between the Abbashid Caliphate and the Empire. Cyril also took an active ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- major center of trade between the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Ragusa was one ... that time, Dubrovnik was under Byzantine Empire protection. ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- (c. 1398 – c. February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and inventor who ... editions followed such as the first German Bible in 1466, the first ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 15:05, 1 August 2022
- Since 1871, when German anatomist Josef von Gerlach had described ... In 1891, Wilhelm Waldeyer, a German anatomist and supporter of Ramón ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- |combatant2=German Empire |commander1= No unified command until 1918 ... Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- Prince Wenceslas wanted Bohemia, part of the Great Moravian Empire ... became part of the newly instituted Roman Empire when Otto I the Great from ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- (fl. 1160s-1180s). The dominant form of German lyric poetry in the period ... A German lyric poet of the period is Martin Opitz. Matsuo Bashō is ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ... practically all marriages have been with German princelings. ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- as the official religion of the Roman Empire, was born in Singidunum. ... during the rule of the First Bulgarian Empire. The city remained a battleground ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- such as English, French, Latin, Spanish and German). In Malta, junior lyceums refer to state-owned schools for secondary education. ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what ... and to mark physically the frontier of the Empire. Hadrian's Wall is the ...23 KB (3,617 words) - 16:37, 21 January 2024
- Maria Theresa (May 13, 1717 – November 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and, through her marriage ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- prisoners and also for the murder of a German missionary believed to be ... to other inaccessible parts of the British Empire. After the trial there was ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- the sixth century C.E. with the Uyghur Empire and climaxing, most importantly ... , the eighth century capital of the Uyghur Empire, served as the first capital ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- of the Netherlands as a major colonial empire. Outside the Netherlands ... partnership in goods. To weaken the German Empire, the United Kingdom blockaded ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- emulate Rome when establishing their own empire. Not all invasions are successful ... justified or unjustified. For example, German military operations conducted ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
