Daily Archives: April 14, 2013

Alto Alentejo

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ALTO ALENTEJO Upper Alentejo.   New Portuguese province during the Salzarist era, lying south of the Tagus, in the lands of the districts of Portalegre and Evora, which continued to function as administrative areas.   It was formed from the north of … Continue reading →

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Alto Adige

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ALTO ADIGE   Haut Adige.   Department in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, comprising the former Bishopric of Trent and the southern districts of Tirol.   These lands  had been acquired by Bavaria from Austria in 1805, but were ceded to Italy in … Continue reading →

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Altmark

Posted on April 14, 2013 by davidseurope

ALTMARK The old March, in northeastern Germany, later forming the western part of the Electorate of Brandenburg.   It lay almost completely west of the Elbe and north of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, itself also part of Brandenburg from 1680. The … Continue reading →

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Altenberg

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ALTENBERG   Site of a zinc mine.   The territory belonged to MORESNET NEUTRE, 1816-1914, which lay between the Prussian Rheinprovinz and Belgium.

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Altena

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ALTENA Imperial County in northwestern Germany.   Today the town, which stands on the River Lenne, a tributary of the Ruhr, lies southeast of Dortmund, and is in the Lüdensheid Landkreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Altena passed in the 11th century from the … Continue reading →

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Altdorf

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ALTDORF The one-time capital of the Welf lands in Swabia stands near Lake Constance (Bodensee) and belongs to the Ravensburg Landkreis in  Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.  It is now part of the town of Weingarten, which grew up beside the … Continue reading →

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Altai

Posted on April 14, 2013 by davidseurope

ALTAI     (1) A Territory (Altayskiy Kray) in the Russian Federation, in Siberia, on the northeastern borders of Kazakhstan; (2) a Republic in the Russian Federation on the northern slopes of the Altai Mountains. Before 1991 the Republic was the Gorno-Altai … Continue reading →

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Alsó-Fehér

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ALSÓ-FEHÉR Former Hungarian county, in Transylvania.   Since 1918 it has been the Romanian county of Alba.   It is drained by the River Mures, a tributary of the Tisza.

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Alsen

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ALSEN   ALS (Dan). Island lying east of, and very close to, the Jutland peninsula, north of the outlet of the Flensburger Förde.   It formed part of the Danish Duchy of Slesvig, from almost all of which Denmark was expelled in … Continue reading →

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Alsace-Lorraine

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ALSACE-LORRAINE   ELSASS-LOTHRINGEN. Reichsland in the German Empire, 1871-1918.  In 1871, all Alsace, except the Territory of Belfort, and northeastern Lorraine, including the fortress city of Metz, were annexed to the German Empire.   The loss of this territory deeply embittered much … Continue reading →

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Alsace

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ALSACE   ELSASS (Ger), Alsatia (Lat). Region between the Vosges and the Rhine:  (1) a Duchy in the Merovingian era;  (2) a region in the Holy Roman Empire;   (3) a gouvernement in 18th century France;  (4) the greater part of the … Continue reading →

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Alpuente

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ALPUENTE Petty inland Moslem kingdom in the east of Spain, 1009-92:  its dynasty was the Banu Qasim.   It was named after its capital, which is northwest of Valencia.   It is now in the north of the province of Valencia.

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Alpes-Maritimes

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ALPES-MARITIMES Two Departments have been named after the mountain range in the southeastern corner of mainland France. (1) The first Département des Alpes-Maritimes was formed in 1793 from the annexed lands of the County of Nice (previously in the Kingdom … Continue reading →

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Alpes Maritimae

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ALPES MARITIMAE The Alpine province bordering on the Mediterranean in Augustus’s reign.   In the reorganisation of the late third century it belonged to the southern Gaul diocese of Viennensis.

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Alpes Graiae et Poeninae

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ALPES GRAIAE ET POENINAE    Or, Alpes Poeninae et Graiae. Roman province.   In the early 3rd century, simply Alpes Graiae.   The Graian Alps are separated from the Mont Blanc massif by the Little St Bernard Pass;  the Pennine Alps, further north, … Continue reading →

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