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Grand duchy

Grand Duchy of Ryazan (correctly a grand principality, russ.: "Великое Княжество Рязанское")


Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Großherzogtum Oldenburg) (also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a Grand Duchy within the German Confederation, North German Confederation, and German Empire, which consisted of three widely separated territories: Oldenburg, Eutin and Birkenfeld.

Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine

He was born near Boizenburg in the German grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on January 7, 1868.

Marianne Cope

She was born January 23, 1838, in Heppenheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Peter Koob (1787–1862) and Barbara Witzenbacher (1803–1872).

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz became Grand Duchies in 1815.

RTL Radio

From Stuttgart the station broadcast 1950s, 60s and 70s music over the old Luxembourg frequencies (from the Grand Duchy) and via the "Oldie Sender" network in Germany.


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Charles Bendire

Born Karl Emil Bender at König im Odenwald in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was the eldest of six children.

Cinderfella

Princess Charming of the Grand Duchy of Morovia (Anna Maria Alberghetti) is in town, so the stepmother decides to throw her a lavish ball in order to get her to marry one of the sons.

Coat of arms of Oldenburg

The coat of arms of Oldenburg is the coat associated with the state of Oldenburg, a county, duchy and grand duchy, that existed between 1180 and 1918, and the associated with the parts of the House of Oldenburg that ruled the state.

Eustachy

Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (1814–1874), Polish–Lithuanian noble, archaeologist and historian from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

The Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, HLB), which was established in the Grand Duchy of Hesse recognized the importance of the HLB for the expansion of railway services in the Rhine-Main region, particularly to the province of Upper Hesse (an exclave of the Grand Duchy), from the Rhine-Main area to Bavaria and via the Kinzig valley to Bebra.

Golden Gate, Kiev

Later a similar name was given to the gates of Vladimir city where one of the Monomakh's descendants, Andrei I Bogolyubsky, established his own state, the Grand Duchy of Vladimir.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg gained an important link to the south in 1876 with the so-called Southern Railway from Oldenburg via Quakenbrück as far as Eversburg on the Osnabrück–Rheine line.

Gustav Simon

Their job was to give the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg – now the CdZ-Gebiet Luxemburg– German administrative structures, and to make it an integral part of the Greater German Reich.

History of the Jews in Luxembourg

Most Jews that remained in the Grand Duchy were interned at Fünfbrunnen, a concentration camp near Troisvierges.

Kazimierz Siemienowicz

Born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a federation of Poland and the Grand Duchy, and in the armies of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, a ruler of the Netherlands.

Kmicic

Samuel Kmicic - a nobleman (szlachcic) from Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Lithuanian Metrica

By 1569, when the regions of Podlaskie, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev were separated from Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and incorporated into Kingdom of Poland, the books which concerned these regions, were removed from the Lithuanian Metrica, and merged into the Polish Metrica.

Lorry-Rail S.A.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg subsidized facilities of the platform Bettembourg near Luxembourg.

Main–Weser Railway

Bad Nauheim was a Kurhessen enclave within the Grand Duchy of Hesse exclave of Oberhessen through which the line ran to Gießen.

Old Ruthenian language

Ruthenian language, varieties of Eastern Slavonic spoken in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Pogon

Pogoń, a Knight-in-pursuit coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Polish cavalry

One of the most notable examples of such victories of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy hussars was the Battle of Kircholm of 1605, in which 3,000 hussars under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz managed to defeat 11,000 soldiers of Charles IX of Sweden - with negligible losses.

Polish Livonia

Duchy of Livonia, a dominion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Porrettana railway

On 14 March 1856, an agreement was signed in Vienna between the Austrian Empire, the Duchy of Parma and Modena, The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States for the construction of the Central Italian Railway (Italian: Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale) from Piacenza to Pistoia, with a branch to Mantua and anticipating strategic links with the existing lines of Lombardy and Veneto and extensions to Rome.

Radio 1212

Radio Luxembourg, a commercial, English-language station that broadcast to the United Kingdom, closed down on September 21, 1939 on the instructions of the government of the Grand Duchy to protect the neutrality of Luxembourg during World War II.

Samuel Hirsch

In 1843 he was appointed chief rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by King William II of the Netherlands.

Vinzenz Lachner

Vinzenz scratched out a living teaching music in Augsburg until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Poznań.