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    Echternach (German pronunciation: [ˈɛçtɐˌnax], French pronunciation: [ɛʃtəʁnax]; Luxembourgish: Iechternach [ˈiəɕtɐnɑχ] or locally Eechternoach) is a commune...
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    The Echternach Gospels (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 9389) were produced, presumably, at Lindisfarne Abbey in Northumbria around the year 690. This location...
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    42250°E / 49.81389; 6.42250 The Abbey of Echternach is a Benedictine monastery in the town of Echternach, in eastern Luxembourg. The abbey was founded...
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    Echternach (Luxembourgish: Iechternach) is a canton in the east of Luxembourg. It is largely coterminous with the Mullerthal region. It borders Germany...
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    Willibrord (category Abbots of Echternach)
    the first Bishop of Utrecht in what is now the Netherlands, dying at Echternach in Luxembourg, and is known as the "Apostle to the Frisians". His father...
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  • Echternach Evangeliaria (Echternacher Evageliarien) is the name given to a number of notable medieval evangeliaria produced in Echternach abbey: the evangeliary...
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    monks established the Abbey of Echternach in AD 698, and is celebrated annually in the dancing procession of Echternach. For a few centuries the abbey...
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    Helmut Friedbert Richard Siegfried Echternach (20 March 1907 – 25 February 1988) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor, and one of the leaders of...
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  • Laurentius of Echternach, fl. 704–722, was a scribe from Echternach in modern Luxembourg. Laurentius wrote the Echternach martyrology in minuscule, and...
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    dancing procession of Echternach is an annual Roman Catholic dancing procession held at Echternach, in eastern Luxembourg. Echternach's is the last traditional...
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    Thiofrid (died 1110) was the Benedictine abbot of Echternach Abbey, and writer of works in several different areas. He is one of the few medieval writers...
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    The Codex Aureus of Echternach (Codex aureus Epternacensis) is an illuminated Gospel Book, created in the approximate period 1030–1050, with a re-used...
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  • mainland at an unknown date, and was appointed as the third abbot of Echternach in 775, succeeding Albert to the post. According to a letter-poem written...
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    The Echternach Music Festival was an international event which was held in May and June every year between 1975 and 2018 at Echternach in the east of Luxembourg...
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    Jürgen Echternach (born 1 November 1937 in Lauenburg (now Lębork, Poland) – 4 April 2006 in Hamburg) was a German politician, representative of the Christian...
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    destinations are historic Luxembourg City, the medieval castle of Vianden, Echternach with its abbey and the wine districts of the Moselle valley. The Mullerthal...
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    the order given in the law): Luxembourg City, Diekirch, Grevenmacher, Echternach, Wiltz, Vianden, and Remich. For over sixty years, no more towns were...
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    population of 1,856. Senningerberg was served by the Luxembourg City-Echternach narrow-gauge railway line from 1904 until its closure in 1954. "Registre...
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    This article related to the geography of Echternach canton is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it....
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  • electing 15 members of the Assembly of Estates. The elections took place in Echternach, Esch-sur-Alzette, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg-Campagne, Mersch, Redange...
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  • Beornrad (archbishop of Sens) (died 797), Archbishop of Sens and Abbot of Echternach This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
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    (Luxembourgish: Musée fir Virgeschicht; French: Musée de la préhistoire) in Echternach, Luxembourg, houses a collection of prehistoric artefacts principally...
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    won the backing of the influential Willibrord, founder of the Abbey of Echternach. The abbey had been built on land donated by Plectrude's mother, Irmina...
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  • ballad Der Geiger von Echternach (The Echternach Fiddler) which she completed when she was 83. It was premiered in the Abbey of Echternach in July 1972 to great...
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    Deres Diemers Doppmeier (until 8 March 1992) Dörflinger Doss Dregger Echternach Ehlers Ehrbar Engelmann Eppelmann Erler (from 6 September 1993) Eylmann...
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    King of the Frisians. Willibrord fled to the abbey he had founded in Echternach, while Boniface returned to Nursling. The following year he traveled to...
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  • Celtic Diekirch, Diekirch CA Dudelange, Dudelange Road Runners Echternach, Echternach CA Fola Esch, Esch-sur-Alzette CAPA Ettelbruck, Ettelbruck CA Est...
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    7th century). From the early 8th century come the Durham Gospels, the Echternach Gospels, the Lindisfarne Gospels (see illustration at right), and the...
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    As late as 698, Willibrord established Echternach Abbey at a Roman villa near the city of Trier (now Echternach in Luxembourg) which Irmina of Oeren, daughter...
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    castles and churches. Notable examples are the Vianden Castle and the Echternach Basilica. Today there is a veritable architectural boom as Luxembourg's...
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