The Rhine Province (German: Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost...
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the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and the northern part of Rhine Province (North Rhine), and the Free State of Lippe by the British military administration...
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Rhineland (redirect from Rhine region)
and Lower Rhine were annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1822 the Prussian administration reorganized the territory as the Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz...
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the former Hohenzollern Lands. Category:People from the Province of Hohenzollern Rhine Province Lilla, Joachim. "Die administrativen Beziehungen der Hohenzollernschen...
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of the Lower Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Niederrhein), or simply known as the Lower Rhine Province (Provinz Niederrhein), was a province of the Kingdom...
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The Province of North Rhine (German: Provinz Nordrhein), also called North Rhine Province (Nordrhein-Provinz or Nord-Rheinprovinz), was a short-lived...
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Vienna, forming the Rhine Province. After a diplomatic defeat in the Oriental Crisis of 1840 France shifted its focus to the Rhine, and the French government...
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The Rhine (/raɪn/ RYNE) is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms...
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in 1822 when it was merged with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine to form Rhine Province. Cologne was the provincial capital. After the Napoleonic Wars...
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North Rhine-Westphalia was established by the British military administration's "Operation Marriage" on 23 August 1946 by merging the Rhine Province with...
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Old Rhine or Oude Rijn may refer to: Oude Rijn (Gelderland), a long former bend in river Rhine in the Dutch province of Gelderland Oude Rijn (Utrecht and...
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Principality of Salm (1802–1811) Grand Duchy of Berg (1806–1808) Rhine Province (1822–1946) Province of Westphalia (1815–1946) Principality of Lippe (c.1858–1880)...
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Electoral Palatinate (redirect from Palatinate of the Rhine)
Rhine Province, including the former Principality of Birkenfeld which had been an exclave of Oldenburg until 1937, and western parts of the Province of...
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of North Rhine-Westphalia with the merger of the provinces of Westphalia and North Rhine, the northern part of the Prussian Rhine Province, to which...
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Grand Duchy of Hesse (redirect from Hesse and the Rhine)
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918...
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provinces of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, from which the Rhine Province emerged in 1822. The southern Left Bank territories, which...
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Charles Bukowski (category Writers from the Rhine Province)
Henry Charles Bukowski (/buːˈkaʊski/ boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was...
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Greta Bösel (category People from the Rhine Province)
Greta Bösel (née Mueller) (9 May 1908 – 3 May 1947) was a Nazi German nurse and camp guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was arrested and tried...
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Klaus Barbie (category People from the Rhine Province)
Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known...
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Westphalia (category Regions of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Previous to the formation of Westphalia as a province of Prussia and later state part of North Rhine-Westphalia, the term "Westphalia" was applied to...
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Werner Klemperer (category Actors from the Rhine Province)
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom...
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Udo Kier (category Actors from the Rhine Province)
Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, he has appeared in more...
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Josef Lauff (category Writers from the Rhine Province)
Josef Lauff (16 November 1855 – 1933) was a German poet and dramatist. He was born at Cologne, the son of a jurist. He was educated at Münster in Westphalia...
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province of Schleswig-Holstein (under British administration). Lower Saxony, from the province of Hanover (under British administration). North Rhine-Westphalia...
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Ruhr Red Army (category Rhine Province)
The Ruhr Red Army, also Red Ruhr Army (German: Rote Ruhrarmee), was an impromptu army of 50,000 to 80,000 left-wing workers that fought in the Ruhr uprising...
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Friedrich Engels (category People from the Rhine Province)
Friedrich Engels (/ˈɛŋɡəlz/ ENG-gəlz; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔɛŋl̩s]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895; in English also spelled as "Frederick Engels") was...
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Josef Terboven (category Politicians from the Rhine Province)
City Councilor in Essen and a member of the Provincial Landtag of the Rhine Province until it was dissolved in 1933. On 14 September 1930, Terboven was elected...
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Anton Diffring (category Actors from the Rhine Province)
Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; 20 October 1916 – 19 May 1989) was a German actor. He had an extensive film and television career in the United Kingdom...
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greater part of the area under its control was carved out of the Prussian Rhine Province and was supplemented by two Bavarian districts (Homburg and St. Ingbert)...
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Friedrich Bayer (category People from the Rhine Province)
Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German...
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