• The Grand Ducal Guard (French: Corps de la Garde Grand-Ducale) was the ceremonial guard unit of the military of Luxembourg from 1945 to 1966. Formed in...
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    132833°E / 49.610889; 6.132833 The Grand Ducal Palace (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogleche Palais, French: Palais grand-ducal, German: Großherzogliches Palais)...
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    first time in November 1944. In 1945, the Corps de la Garde Grand Ducale (Grand Ducal Guard Corps) garrisoned in the Saint-Esprit barracks in Luxembourg...
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    Hereditary Grand Duke as heir-apparent to the throne of Luxembourg. While Luxembourg was occupied by Germans during the Second World War, the grand ducal family...
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    Fielded by Libyan Rebels during Libyan Civil War  Luxembourg: The Grand Ducal Guard used captured German K98ks in 1945, later replaced by Ross rifles...
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    the grand ducal family left Luxembourg shortly before the arrival of Nazi troops. Luxembourg's neutrality was violated on 9 May 1940, while the Grand Duchess...
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    the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, and fought in numerous conflicts Poland-Lithuania participated in during the early modern period. All Royal Guards units...
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    Czechoslovakian Brno weapons factory.  Luxembourg – Issued to the Grand Ducal Guard in 1945, replaced by Lee–Enfield in the same year.  Netherlands –...
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    National Guard also fought, as well as many irregular units. In the end, the Uprising was defeated and much of the remainder of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian...
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  • volunteered for guard duty were stationed along the border. The rest remained in their barracks, leaving the defence of the country to the Grand Ducal Gendarmerie...
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    Marina, Duchess of Kent. Grand Duke Kirill followed a career in the Imperial Russian Navy serving for 20 years in the Naval Guards. He took part in the Russo-Japanese...
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  • Royal family (redirect from Ducal family)
    pope, while the terms baronial family, comital family, ducal family, archducal family, grand ducal family, or princely family are more appropriate to describe...
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  • Seneschal (redirect from Grand seneschal)
    seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically...
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    Portland. South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand ceased operations. The Grand Ducal Guard of Luxembourg was officially disbanded. Born: Jovan Vraniškovski,...
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    Prince Henry of Battenberg (category Grand Crosses of the Order of the Star of Romania)
    formerly Count Henry of Battenberg, was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse. He became a member of the British royal family by marriage...
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    Order  Grand Duchy of Hesse: Dame of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of the Golden Lion, in Brilliants, 19 April 1894 Dame Grand Cross of the Grand Ducal Hessian...
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    the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, publication of the government of Luxembourg : Princes and Princesses of the Grand-Ducal House of Luxembourg are Grand Crosses...
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    Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II. This put Luxembourg's Grand Ducal government in a delicate situation. On one hand, the population's sympathies...
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    Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and...
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    on the armor of the elite soldiers from the 14th-century Lithuanian Grand Ducal Army. During every year since 2009, the company's soldiers partake in...
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    into the new Free State of Thuringia two years later. The full grand ducal style was Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Landgrave in Thuringia, Margrave...
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    Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine (category Burials at the Mausoleum for the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, Rosenhöhe (Darmstadt))
    was promoted to Generalmajor. In 1879 he became commander of the 25th (Grand Ducal Hessian) Division and shortly afterwards was promoted to Lieutenant General...
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    ravaged the Gottorp ducal share in the duchies during that war and conquered its northern portions in 1713, including the ancestral ducal seat Gottorp castle...
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  • organized unit of soldiers in the Royal Polish Army and later also the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army from the 15th until the 18th century. The name of a medium...
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    a large collection of coins. Like all the Grand Dukes, Sergei was immensely wealthy. Beside his Grand Ducal allowance of 200,000 roubles a year, he received...
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    bloodless coup on 27 April 1859, just before the beginning of the war. The Grand Ducal family left for Bologna, papal territory since the Congress of Vienna...
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  • for aviation in the United States Guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide Grand Ducal Police, the national police force of Luxembourg GdP may refer to: Gewerkschaft...
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    Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (category Burials at the Ducal Family Mausoleum, Glockenburg Cemetery, Coburg)
    lodge adjacent to Schloss Rosenau, the ducal summer residence just north of Coburg. He was buried at the ducal family's mausoleum in the Friedhof am Glockenberg [de]...
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    Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian: Влади́мир Александрович; 22 April 1847 – 17 February 1909) was a son of Emperor Alexander II of...
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    The Ducal Palace in Sassuolo is a Baroque villa located in the town of Sassuolo, thirty minutes outside Modena, northern Italy. The palace was built on...
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