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| | Wettin Dynasty -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Its earliest known ancestors were active in pushing Germany's frontier eastward into formerly Slav territory; and by the end of the 1080s two of their descendants, brothers, held not only the countship of Wettin (on a crossing of the Saale River downstream from Halle), but also, farther... |
 | | Its earliest known ancestors were active in pushing Germany's frontier eastward into formerly Slav territory; and by the end of the 1080s two of their descendants, brothers, held not only the countship of Wettin (on a crossing of the Saale River downstream from Halle), but also, farther east,
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 | | The Ch'in Dynasty, from which the country name China is derived, ruled for only a brief periodfrom 221 to 206 BC. |
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