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Daily Archives: April 18, 2013
Aosta
AOSTA AOSTE (Fr). Province of northwestern Italy, named after its capital, a town on the Italian side of the Alps at the junction of the routes over the Great and Little St Bernard Passes. Aosta, once Augusta Praetoria, is one … Continue reading
Posted in France, Italy
Tagged Alps, Aosta, Aosta Valley, Doire, House of Savoy, Kingdom of Sardinia
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Antwerp
ANTWERP ANTWERPEN (Flemish); Anvers (Fr). A Marquisate in the Holy Roman Empire A province in Belgium. The city and port of Antwerp stands on the right bank of the River Scheldt. (1) The Marquisate was a small district on … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, France, Netherlands
Tagged Antwerp, Antwerpen, Holy Roman Empire, Scheldt
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Antrim
ANTRIM Aontroim. The northeastern county in Northern Ireland, lying between the River Bann and Lough Neagh in the west and the North Channel in the east. Antrim and Co. Down, to the south, were the remnant of the old Kingdom … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Northern Ireland
Tagged Antrim, Ballymena, Belfast, Larne, Lough Neagh, Plantation of Ulster, River Bann
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Antioch
ANTIOCH Crusader state in northwestern Syria,1098-1268, with its capital at Antioch, on the River Asi (Orontes). Antioch is now the Turkish city of ANTAKYA. The city, Antiochaea in Greek, was founded by the Macedonian ruler of much of western Asia, … Continue reading
Posted in France, Turkey
Tagged ANTAKYA, Antioch, Byzantine, Byzantine Empire, County of Tripoli, Levant, Ottoman Empire
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Ansbach
ANSBACH or Brandenburg-Ansbach. Imperial Principality in southeastern Germany, named after its capital, which stands on the River Rezat, a tributary of the Rednitz and eventually of the Main. The town, which is WSW of Nuremberg, is now a Stadtkreis in the … Continue reading
Posted in France, Germany
Tagged Brandenburg, Franconia, Frederick, Margrave, Nuremberg, Rednitz, Sayn-Altenkirchen
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Annaly
ANNALY Anglicised form of the Gaelic ANGHAILE, a region in central Ireland, lying northeast of Lough Ree. It was the territory of the O’Ferralls. At times it came under the lordship, later the county, of Meath, and was included in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anghaile, Annaly, County Westmeath, Meath, One Direction, Westmeath
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Anjou
ANJOU County, later Duchy, in northwestern France A gouvernement, occupying both banks of the lower Loire, but more to the north, where the city of Angers stands on the River Maine, the short river that carries the waters of the … Continue reading
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