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Kingdom of Hanover. Prince-Bishopric of Münster. Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden ( German pronunciation: [ˈfɛɐ̯dən]; German: Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden ), were two territories and immediate fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged and gained imperial immediacy in 1180. By their original constitution they ...
History of Bremen (city) Bremen, 16th century. For most of its 1,200 year history, Bremen was an independent city within the confederal jurisdiction of Germany 's Holy Roman Empire. In the late Middle Ages, its governing merchant guilds were at the centre of the Hanseatic League, which sought to monopolise the North Sea and Baltic trade.
During the Great Northern War (1700–1721), many towns and areas around the Baltic Sea and East-Central Europe had a severe outbreak of the plague with a peak from 1708 to 1712. This epidemic was probably part of a pandemic affecting an area from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Most probably via Constantinople, it spread to Pińczów in ...
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Verden an der Aller (German: [ˈfeːɐ̯dn̩ ʔan dɐ ˈʔalɐ] ⓘ; Northern Low Saxon: Veern), also called Verden (Aller) or simply Verden, is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Aller. It is the district town of the district of Verden in Lower Saxony and an independent municipality ( de:Selbständige Gemeinde ).
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1675 – Bremen-Verden Campaign. 1682 - Bremen Exchange construction began of a single story building. 1720 - George I., elector of Hanover recognized Bremen as a free city. 1790 - City directory published. 1792 – Bremer Stadttheater (1792) (theatre) built. 19th century. 1807 - Population: 36,041. 1806 - Bremen taken by the French.
It is also colloquially referred to as the Nasses Dreieck or "wet triangle". The Elbe–Weser triangle is a geographical region and, historically and politically, corresponds roughly to the former territory of Bremen-Verden and formed the major part of the former Stade Region. Today the Elbe–Weser triangle belongs to Lower Saxony outside the ...
UTC+02:00 ( CEST) Vehicle registration. VER. Website. landkreis-verden.de. Verden ( German pronunciation: [ˈfeːɐ̯dn̩]) is a Kreis (district) in the centre of Lower Saxony, Germany. Adjoining it are (from the northwest clockwise) the districts of Osterholz, Rotenburg, Heidekreis, Nienburg, and Diepholz, as well as the city of Bremen .
