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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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Allemagne, from the name of the Alamanni tribe; in Italian it is Germania, from the Latin Germania, although the German people are called tedeschi, which is...
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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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    Fectio (category Roman fortifications in Germania Inferior)
    known as Vechten in Old Dutch, was a Roman castellum in the province Germania Inferior established in the year 4 or 5 AD. It was located at the place...
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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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    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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    A. Alisaffi (category Stamp forgers)
    A. Alisaffi was a stamp dealer and forger from Istanbul known for his reproductions of the Small and Large Hermes Head stamps of Greece. Material produced...
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    Heidelberg in the Roman period (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    described by Ptolemy as a "Helvetic wasteland". After the attempt to conquer Germania, which had begun under Augustus, had failed, the Romans expanded the Rhine...
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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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    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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    (pp. 187–189). London: Spink. ISBN 1-902040-35-X De Bello Gallico 6.17 Germania 9 Green, Miranda J. (1992). Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend (pp. 148–149)...
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  • is sung, there is a three-beat pause, which is filled by the timpani or stamping feet (e.g. of marching soldiers). Hell Let Loose (2021), a tactical first-person...
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    intended to serve as a strategic starting point for the conquest of Magna Germania. During the campaign in 9 BC Drusus died. His brother Tiberius and the...
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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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    Mogontiacum (category Roman towns in Germania)
    here, as Mogontiacum was the provincial capital of the Roman province of Germania Superior with the seat of the governor as of the year 90 at the latest...
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