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The ancient stem duchy of Saxony was partitioned in some dozens of territories of imperial immediacy by Barbarossa, and ceased to exist. The western part was split amongsy several minor counties and bishoprics, as well as the newly formed Duchy of Westphalia.
West Bank. City of Bethlehem, West Bank. The name West Bank is a translation of the Arabic term aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah, which designates the territory situated on the western side of the Jordan River that was occupied in 1948 and annexed in 1950 by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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Jun 3, 2019 · What was the original name for New York? Before New York was New York, it was a small island inhabited by a tribe of the Lenape peoples. One early English rendering of the native placename was Manna – hata, speculated to mean “the place where we get wood to make bows”—and hence the borough of Manhattan. In the early 1600s, the Dutch ...
The Duchy of Saxony would not live to see the day, as it was officially dismembered in 1180 after losing a civil war against emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Its various successor states disputed the ducal title, and with it, the prestige of being a stem duchy because the imperial election had been reintroduced after the Saxon dynasty.
The Duchy of Saxony was ruled by the Liudolfing, Billung, and Supplinburg dynasties from 804 to 1137. During this period the borders of Saxony didn't change all that much. In 1137 the Welf dynasty which also ruled over Bavaria(in south-eastern Germany) became the Dukes of Saxony.
Apr 13, 2021 · In the fall of 1609, some weeks after Henry Hudson angled his ship through an inviting narrows, entered an expansive bay, and began exploring a broad river that would later be named for him, one ...
The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic. This process principally occurred from the mid-fifth to early seventh centuries, following the end of Roman rule in ...
