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The County of Bar, later Duchy of Bar, was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire encompassing the pays de Barrois and centred on the city of Bar-le-Duc.It was held by the House of Montbéliard from the 11th century. Part of the county, the so-called Barrois mouvant, became a fief of the Kingdom of France in 1301 and was elevated to a duchy in 1354. The Barrois non …

Maximilian was born at Wiener Neustadt on 22 March 1459. His father, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, named him for an obscure saint, Maximilian of Tebessa, who Frederick believed had once warned him of imminent peril in a dream.In his infancy, he and his parents were besieged in Vienna by Albert of Austria.One source relates that, during the siege's bleakest days, the …

Overview. Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible." English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of different accents (systems of pronunciation) as well as various localized words and grammatical constructions; many different dialects can be identified based on these factors.

Na Alemanha durante o século XIX existiam três variedades de cães de pastoreio na região da Suábia, Turíngia e Württemberg, respectivamente. [4] [3] [5] Segundo relatos, estes cães seriam híbridos de lobos com cães trazidos a estas regiões.Especula-se ainda um possível parentesco com a raça Pastor-da-boêmia, que é bastante antiga, mas não há fatos que comprovem esta …

Early life. Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily.Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV.He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun. ...

Bogdan Stimoff is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Georg Reimers, Lotte Medelsky, and Carl Goetz. It was made as a co-production between Bulgaria, Germany and the Austrian Empire, the allied Central Powers of the First World War.. Location shooting took place around the Bulgarian capital Sofia.. Cast. Georg Reimers as Bogdan …

During the Early Modern period the Holy Roman Empire was divided into Imperial Circles (Latin: Circuli imperii; German: Reichskreise; singular: Circulus imperii; Reichskreis), administrative groupings whose primary purposes were the organization of common defensive structure and the collection of imperial taxes.They were also used as a means of organization within the Imperial …

Eberhard, although a lover of peace, was one of the founders of the Swabian League in 1488, and assisted to release Maximilian I, from his imprisonment in Bruges in the same year. In 1492 he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece, by Maximilian, then King of Germany. In the same year, the treaty was finally sanctioned by the nobility.

Weser-Rhine Germanic is a proposed group of prehistoric West Germanic dialects which would have been both directly ancestral to Dutch, as well as being a notable substratum influencing West Central German dialects. The term was introduced by the German linguist Friedrich Maurer as a replacement for the older term Istvaeonic, with which it is essentially synonymous.