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Luxembourg is a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch, Grand Duke Henri, making it the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. Luxembourg is a developed country with an advanced economy and one of the world's highest GDP (PPP) per capita as per IMF and World Bank estimates
- Luxembourgers
Most ethnic Luxembourgers live in the Grand Duchy of...
- Luxembourg City
Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg; French: Luxembourg;...
- Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish (/ ˈ l ʌ k s əm b ɜːr ɡ ɪ ʃ /...
- Henri
Grand Duke Henri is commander-in-chief of the Luxembourg...
- Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourgish: Chamber vun den...
- History of Luxembourg
The history of Luxembourg consists of the history of the...
- Prime Minister
The prime minister of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish:...
- Luxembourg Airport
Luxembourg Airport (IATA: LUX, ICAO: ELLX) is the main...
- Portuguese
Possibly, Luxembourg is the country with the highest...
- Luxembourg Armed Forces
The Luxembourg Armed Forces (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerger...
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Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg; French: Luxembourg; German: Luxemburg), [pron 1] also known as Luxembourg City (Luxembourgish: Stad Lëtzebuerg or d'Stad; French: Ville de Luxembourg; German: Stadt Luxemburg or Luxemburg-Stadt), [pron 2] is the capital city of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune.
- Early History
- County
- Duchy
- Habsburg (1477–1795) and French (1795–1815) Rule
- Developing Independence
- Separation and The World Wars
- Modern History
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In the territory now covered by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there is evidence of primitive inhabitants dating back to the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age over 35,000 years ago. The oldest artifacts from this period are decorated bones found at Oetrange. However, the first real evidence of civilisation is from the Neolithic or 5th millennium BC, fro...
The history of Luxembourg properly began with the construction of Luxembourg Castle in the High Middle Ages. It was Siegfried I, count of Ardennes who traded some of his ancestral lands with the monks of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 963 for an ancient, supposedly Roman, fort named Lucilinburhuc, commonly translated as "little castle". Moder...
From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Luxembourg bore multiple names, depending on the author. These include Lucilinburhuc, Lutzburg, Lützelburg, Luccelemburc, and Lichtburg, among others. The Luxembourgish dynasty produced several Holy Roman Emperors, Kings of Bohemia, and Archbishops of Trier and Mainz. Around the fort of Luxembourg, a t...
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the electors of Brandenburg, later kings of Prussia (Borussia), advanced their claim to the Luxembourg patrimony as heirs-general to William of Thuringia and his wife Anna of Bohemia, the disputed dukes of Luxembourg in the 1460s. Anna was the eldest daughter of the last Luxembourg heiress. From 1609 onward, they had...
Luxembourg remained more or less under French rule until the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. When the French departed, the Allies installed a provisional administration. Luxembourg initially came under the Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein in mid-1814, and then from June 1814 under the Generalgouvernement Nieder- und Mittelrhein(General Government Lower ...
Luxembourg remained a possession of the kings of the Netherlands until the death of William III in 1890, when the grand duchy passed to the House of Nassau-Weilburg due to the 1783 Nassau Family Pact, under which those territories of the Nassau family in the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the pact (Luxembourg and Nassau) were bound by semi-Salic ...
After World War II, Luxembourg abandoned its politics of neutrality, when it became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations. It is a signatory of the Treaty of Rome, and constituted a monetary union with Belgium (Benelux Customs Union in 1948), and an economic union with Belgium and the Netherlands,...
Arblaster, Paul. A History of the Low Countries(Palgrave Essential Histories) (2005)Blom, J.C.H. History of the Low Countries(2006).Bodenstein, Felicity. "National Museums in Luxembourg." Building National Museums in Europe 1750-2010 (Linköping University Electronic Press, 2011) online.Brühwiler, Ingrid, and Matias Gardin. "Fabricating National Unity in Torn Contexts: World War I in the Multilingual Countries of Switzerland and Luxembourg." in Small Nations and Colonial Peripheri...Luxembourg (officially called the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg, French: Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg) is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is a small country by land area.
The city of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg, French: Luxembourg, German: Luxemburg), also known as Luxembourg City (Luxembourgish: Stad Lëtzebuerg, French: Ville de Luxembourg, German: Stadt Luxemburg), is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany ...
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Cities of Luxembourg highlighted amongst all communes in the country. There are twelve cities in Luxembourg. This is a list of the cities.
