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    Germania stamps are definitive stamps that were issued by the German Empire and the Weimar Republic between 1900 and 1922, depicting Germania. They represent...
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  • Frankfurt Germania (stamp), a definitive stamp design from 1900–1922 in Germany "Germania" (Beethoven), patriotic song by Ludwig van Beethoven Germania (German-American...
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    A definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period...
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    first Postmaster-General. The most common stamps of the Reichspost were the Germania stamps. Germania stamps were issued from 1900 until 1922 making it...
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    a German actress. She is, however, more famous as the model for the Germania stamp of the Reichspost. Anna Führing was born in Hamburg on 6 March 1866...
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    area. On December 12, 1914, two Germania stamps were reproduced in the French newspaper "Le Matin". A red 10 pfennig stamp bore the imprint "Schweiz 10 Centimes"...
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    overprinted German Germania stamps during World War I. 20 centimes Epaulettes stamp of Leopold I, 1849 Bilingual 10 centimes stamp depicting Leopold II...
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    Limes Germanicus (a series of forts along the Roman frontier of Germania Superior. A stamp of the XXII Legion was found during excavations of a Roman Fort...
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    they typically include not only the Roman-era Germani who lived in both Germania and parts of the Roman empire, but also all Germanic speaking peoples from...
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    Vineta provisional (category Postage stamps)
    postage stamp made on 13 April 1901 on board the cruiser SMS Vineta. The postal officer had not been supplied with 3 Pfennig Germania stamps, so he bisected...
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    German island in the North Sea) was a British possession, about 20 postage stamps were issued between 1867 and 1890. There were up to eight printings of a...
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    Allemagne, from the name of the Alamanni tribe In Italian it is Germania, from the Latin Germania, although the German people are called tedeschi in Polish...
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    Tacitus (section Germania)
    writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and the life of his father-in-law,...
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  • articles that expressed an anti-German sentiment, summed up in the quote Germania est delenda (Germany needs to be destroyed) which was modeled after Cato's...
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    in Hispania. Emperor Claudius likely transferred the legion to Mainz in Germania Superior to replace the XIV Gemina. Probably in 41 AD.However. Some people...
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    cavalry escaped. The legion was later reinforced with legionaries from the Germania provinces. When Cerialis returned as governor of Britain ten years later...
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    Vetera (category Roman fortifications in Germania Inferior)
    the location of two successive Roman legionary camps in the province of Germania Inferior near present-day Xanten on the Lower Rhine. The legionary camps...
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  • Stamps from German post offices abroad are popular with collectors and some are quite valuable. In a 2006 auction, a 40 Pfennig Germania hand-stamped...
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    can be valuable. In a 2006 auction, a 40 Pfennig Germania hand-stamped "China" (Tientsin issue) stamp from 1900 realized 100,152 Euros. Other countries...
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    before 86, the legion moved to its new headquarters at Argentoratum in Germania Superior (now Strasbourg), where the main part of the unit was stationed...
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    Laibach (redirect from Germania (band))
    Is Life" / "Germania" / "Life" (1987) "Sympathy for the Devil 1" / "Laibach, 300.000 V.K." (1988) "Sympathy for the Devil 2" / "Germania, 300.000 V.K...
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    floating trees has the stamp of an eyewitness account. At some uncertain date, Pliny was transferred to the command of Germania Superior under Publius...
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    Roman camp, Marktbreit (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    once the conquest of Germania had been finished, it could serve as a civil settlement, perhaps the capital of southern Germania. Livius: Marktbreit From...
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    that country was common in the 19th century (such as Britannia, Columbia, Germania, Hibernia and Helvetia). The earliest known personification of Malta dates...
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    Maximus Decimus Meridius was the Legion general, leading the campaign in Germania against the Marcomanni. List of Roman legions Roman legion Legio IIII Macedonica...
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  • to the SS-Totenkopfstandarte (SS Death’s Head Regiment), SS-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking" and the Höchste SS- und Polizeiführer Italien (Highest...
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  • Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the legion was sent as reinforcements to Germania Inferior, where they shared the base camp of Castra Vetera (Xanten) with...
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    on the right Burg Ehrenfels Castle The Niederwalddenkmal monument, with Germania (personification), at Rüdesheim One of the oldest surviving church building...
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    building and inserted a flag into the crown of the mounted female statue of "Germania", symbolizing Germany. As this happened at night, it was too dark to take...
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    Argentoratum (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    under Nero Claudius Drusus established a military outpost belonging to the Germania Superior Roman province close to a Gaulish village near the banks of the...
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