German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of the city's downtown. It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th century by a large...
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Namhae German Village (Korean: 남해 독일마을, German: Deutsches Dorf Namhae) is an ethnic enclave located in Samdong-myeon [ko], Namhae County, South Gyeongsang...
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German Village was the nickname for a range of mock houses constructed in 1943 by the U.S. Army in the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, roughly 85 miles...
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Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During...
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German Oskarovich Gref (Russian: Герман Оскарович Греф, romanized: German Oskarovich Gref; born February 8, 1964) is a Russian politician and businessman...
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German Argentines (German: Deutschargentinier, Spanish: germano-argentinos) are Argentines of German ancestry as well as German citizens living in Argentina...
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thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent...
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In 1873, the German schooner R. J. Robertson was shipwrecked off the coast of Miyako Island near what is now the German Culture Village in Ueno. The crew...
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The German Village Commission is a governmental organization appointed by the Mayor of Columbus, Ohio to "preserve, protect and enhance the unique architectural...
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The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich...
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German Village Historic District is a registered historic district in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 7...
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The Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (German: Autonome Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik der Wolgadeutschen; Russian: Автономная Советская...
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Büsingen am Hochrhein (redirect from German-Swiss border town)
8 mi) from Dörflingen, the nearest village. Its status as an exclave dates to before the formation of the modern German and Swiss states, having previously...
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Pied Piper of Hamelin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
early German account of the event. An article by James P. O'Donnell in The Saturday Evening Post (December 24, 1955) tells how an elderly German researcher...
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Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio (redirect from Merion Village)
King-Lincoln District are directly east, while the Brewery District and German Village are directly south of Downtown. Franklinton is to the west of Downtown...
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majority of villages permanently destroyed after the German population had been forced out. The same scenario applied to villages of ethnic Germans at the...
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independent German states in the region (particularly Prussia), and later the German Empire as well as other multi-ethnic countries with German-speaking...
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the centre of Europe. As the border to Germany/Bavaria runs 100 m west of the mountaintop, the German village of Bad Neualbenreuth uses this for promotional...
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and village tradesmen who arrived following Catherine the Great's invitation were allowed to settle in German-only villages and to keep their German language...
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Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north,...
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The White Ribbon (category Articles containing German-language text)
The White Ribbon (German: Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) is a 2009 German-language mystery drama film, written and directed by Michael...
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Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic followed different paths when it came to demographics. The politics of the German Democratic Republic...
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approved expulsions of ethnic Germans from the former German territories transferred to Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia. Many German civilians were sent to...
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Anschluss (redirect from German invasion of austria)
arose after the 1871 unification of Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the Prussian-dominated German Empire. It gained support after the...
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Stasi (redirect from East German State Security Service)
Office A (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung or HVA). Its operatives also maintained contacts and occasionally cooperated with West German terrorists...
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Operation Barbarossa (redirect from German invasion of the Soviet Union)
offensive operations and German inability to do so alone, the German-Finnish effort in central and northern Finland came to an end. Germany had pressured Finland...
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German (German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe...
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Forest in Germany). Complete the High German consonant shift by fricativising initial /k/ to [x]. Subvariants: Bernese German Zurich German Vorarlbergisch...
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Gross-Rosen concentration camp (category Articles containing German-language text)
concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźnica...
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Jamel is a German village in the municipality of Gägelow, in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. According to the Mecklenburgisches...
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