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Etymologically, the word "margrave" (Latin: marchio, c. 1551) is the English and French form of the German noble title Markgraf ( Mark, meaning "march" or "mark", that is, borderland, added to Graf, meaning "Count"); it is related semantically to the English title "Marcher Lord". As a noun and hereditary title, "margrave" was common among the ...
Established in 1974, the town of Margrave doesn't exist at all: As Toronto.com reported, the village was temporarily built on a property outside Pickering, Ontario. The streetscape actually looks brand new, doesn't it? Ah, maybe it's because the town is loaded with the Kliner Foundation money.
- DictionaryMar·grave/ˈmärˌɡrāv/
noun
- 1. the hereditary title of some princes of the Holy Roman Empire. historical
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A Margrave ( German: Markgraf) is a German nobleman. Originally the Holy Roman Emperor would give a Markgraf an area of the borders (the Marches or German: Mark) to look after. The Margrave would have to protect the people in the area from invaders, and at the same time protect the empire.
May 27, 2023 · Margrave was envisioned as a typical American small town. But small though it was, building the entire thing was far from a simple process. After being forced to leave Georgia behind, Santora and...
Etymologically the word marquess or margrave denoted a count or earl holding a march, or mark, that is, a frontier district; but this original significance has long been lost. It is one of the five ranks of British nobility and peerage, which, in descending order, are duke , marquess, earl , viscount, and baron .
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Margrave is a small town in northern Georgia that Reacher visits when his brother, Joe, tells him the Blues musician Blind Blake may have been murdered and buried there. Soon after exiting from the U.S. Army, Reacher takes the express bus from Tampa to Atlanta, but convinces the driver to let...
Feb 3, 2022 · SPOILERS AHEAD. Is Margrave a Real Town? No, Margrave is not a real town. The fictional Georgia town is created by author Lee Child as the setting of his novel ‘Killing Floor,’ the source novel of ‘Reacher’ season 1. Margrave is presented as an idyllic and picturesque rural town in the state of Georgia, sharing borders with Alabama.