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	Magdeburg - LoveToKnow 1911
		MAGDEBURG, a city of Germany, capital of the Prussian province of Saxony, a fortress of the first rank and one of the principal commercial towns of the German Empire.
		Otto von Guericke (1602-1686), the inventor of the air-pump, was burgomaster of Magdeburg.
		THE Archbishopric Of Magdeburg was carved out of the bishopric of Halberstadt when it was founded in 968, and its history is largely bound up with that of the city and of the prelates who have ruled the see.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Magdeburg (1511 words)

	Archbishopric of Magdeburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Roman Catholic archdiocese from 968 to 1545, and a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the 12th century until 1806.
		Then, on 20 April 967, the archbishopric was solemnly established at the Synod of Ravenna in the presence of the pope and the emperor.
		The Diocese of Magdeburg itself was small; it comprised the Slavonic districts of Serimunt, Nudizi, Neletici, Nizizi, and half of northern Thuringia, which Halberstadt resigned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archbishop_of_Magdeburg (931 words)

	Magdeburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe river.
		973 Emperor Otto I dies and is buried in the Cathedral of Magdeburg.
		Magdeburg is one of the major towns along the Elbe Cycle Route (Elberadweg).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magdeburg (1640 words)

	Magdeburg: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Magdeburg is the capital of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
		Magdeburg was one of the most important medieval cities of Germany.
		Although the settlement at the place had existed for centuries, the first mentioning of Magdeburg was under emperor Charlemagne, when he secured the small fishing and trading town.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Magdeburg.html (904 words)

	Magdeburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Magdeburg was an archbishopric in eastern Germania spearpointed at the Slavs (968).
		Magdeburg was in the heart of the killing during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), where collateral losses were as high as 50% of the population.
		In 1631, Magdeburg itself was sacked and burnt by Catholic forces (85% of the inhabitants, or some 7,000, are believed to have died from slaughters and fires), which gave greater impulse to the Protestant cause.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /m/magdeburg.html (151 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Magdeburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		968 At the Synod of Ravenna, the Archbishopric of Magdeburg was founded and Adalbert received consecration as its first archbishop.
		1035 Magdeburg received a patent giving the city the right to hold trade exhibits and conventions, the basis of the later family of city laws known as Magdeburg rights.
		In the following years Magdeburg gained a reputation as a stronghold of Protestantism and it became the first major city to publish the writings of Martin Luther.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Magdeburg (1065 words)

	List of states in the Holy Roman Empire
		Archbishopric of Salzburg (secularized 1803, became secular Electorate as the Duchy of Salzburg)
		Archbishopric of Bremen (secularized 1648, to Sweden as the Duchy of Bremen)
		Archbishopric of Magdeburg (secularized 1648, to Brandenburg as the Duchy of Magdeburg)
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_states_in_the_holy_roman_empire.html (469 words)

	Magdeburg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The city of Magdeburg obtained from them (13th cent.) a charter that was the model for hundreds of medieval town charters in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Poland.
		Under this Magdeburg Law a town governed itself through an elected council, had its own courts of justice, and was exempt from all duties except the payment of rent to the prince of the land.
		Magdeburg prospered and became one of the chief members of the Hanseatic League.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Magdebur.html (458 words)

	Lemberg - LoveToKnow 1911
		From Casimir the Great, who captured it in 1340, it received the Magdeburg rights, and for almost two hundred years the public records were kept in German.
		In 1412 it became the see of a Roman Catholic archbishopric, and from 1432 until 1772 it was the capital of the Polish province of Reussen (Terra Russia).
		During the whole period of Polish supremacy it was a most important city, and after the fall of Constantinople it greatly developed its trade with the East.
	11.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEMBERG.htm (630 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Magdeburg
		From 968 until 1552 it was the seat of an archbishopric.
		Magdeburg was also a member of the Hanseatic league of towns, and as such was first mentioned in 1295.
		The Elector Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg, who had been administrator of the archbishopric since 1598, exercised a policy which was hostile to the emperor, and on this account he was deposed by the cathedral chapter in 1628, the latter having remained strictly neutral.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09524b.htm (1599 words)

	WHKMLA : Siege of Magdeburg, 1550-1551
		Magdeburg was the seat of the Prince-Archbishops of Magdeburg and never gained the status of an Immediate or Free Imperial City.
		Following the Schmalkaldic War 1546-1547, the city of Magdeburg (not the Princebishopric) refused to accept the Augsburg Interim of 1547 and was banned.
		Magdeburg attracted Lutheran refugees from many parts of Germany (the population, due to the refugees, had risen to 40,000), and in the city publications by uncompromising Lutheran theologians rejecting the Augsburg Interim, such as Hartmann Beyer of Frankfurt, were printed; the city was nicknamed "Unseres Herrgotts Kanzlei" (Our Lord's Chancery).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/16cen/magdeburg1551.html (370 words)

	Adalbert of Magdeburg
		Later he became bishop of Magdeburg, an imperial city in Saxony.
		The archbishoprics of Hamburg and Bremen had been created with the intent that they would act as bases for missionary activity in Northern and Eastern Europe.
		The archbishopric of Magdeburg was now designated to provide missionary programs for the Eastern European Slavs.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ad/Adalbert_of_Magdeburg.html (190 words)

	Hanseatic Cities
		Attendorn, Principality of Westphalen (to Archbishopric of Cologne)
		Brilon, Principality of Westphalen (to Archbishopric of Cologne)
		Rüthen, Principality of Westphalen (to Archbishopric of Cologne)
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	THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF M... - Online Information article about THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF M... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		MAGDEBURG was carved out of the bishopric of See also:
		The burgraviate of Magdeburg was held by several countly families in turn until 1269, when it was See also:
		Saxony, made an arrangement which again gave the office to the archbishops, who held it until the secularization of the see.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/THE_ARCHBISHOPRIC_OF_MAGDEBURG.html (809 words)

	Chronicle of Magdeburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		1631 Magdeburg is conquered and destroyed by imperial troops in the Thirty Years' War.
		1681 The composer Georg Philipp Telemann is born in Magdeburg.
		1807-1813 Magdeburg belongs to the Kingdom of Westphalia.
	www.uni-magdeburg.de /magdeburg/historyeng.html (347 words)

	IEEE Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects 2000 - Description of Magdeburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Magdeburg is one of the most historical cities in Germany.
		One of Magdeburg's most famous citizens was Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) who conducted a series of physical experiment about the pressure among those the vacuum experiments.
		Today Magdeburg (about 250,000 inhabitants) is the capital of the federal state Sachsen-Anhalt in the eastern part of Germany.
	www.tet.uni-hannover.de /SPI/2000/magdeburg.html (188 words)

	Lubus Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Archbishopric of Magdeburg, however, also tried to obtain control of Lebus.
		In 1252, the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and Brandenburg bought the bishopric from the petty Polish Prince Boleslaus Rogatka.
		In 1424 the bishopric was moved from the overlordship of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg leaving Polish province of the church.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Lubusz (361 words)

	An appeal for a historiographical renaissance: lost lives and the Thirty Years War. - The Historian - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Attempting to build on previous historical and biographical accounts, Magdeburg emerged as a focal point for the Protestant Reformation and was heavily involved in the religious wars of the sixteenth century.
		Magdeburg's significance sustains itself as a pivotal sociohistorical event with the perceived ability to convey something about both the past and future.
		Magdeburg's conquerors--most notably the simple soldiers--were perhaps so vicious because they shared a common hatred of the adherents of the Augsburg Confession, or because they were embittered by the chain shot that had been fired at them, or because they were offended by the derision and insults Magdeburgers had heaped upon them from the ramparts.
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	The Thirty Years War: The Battle of Breitenfeld and the Swedish Triumph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		All of Magdeburg was destroyed and 20,000 of her inhabitants with her.
		News of the Sack of Magdeburg resounded throughout the Empire.
		In October, he took the rich Catholic bishopric of Würzberg, in November he was in the Archbishopric of the Elector of Mainz, by December, his troops had entered the Lower Palatinate.
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	Maurice of Saxony
		Maurice was promised some rights over the archbishopric of Magdeburg and the bishopric of Halberstadt; immunity, in part at least, for his subjects from the Tridentine decrees; and the question of transferring the electoral dignity was discussed.
		In 1550 he had been entrusted with the execution of the imperial ban against the city of Magdeburg, and under cover of these operations he was able to collect troops and to concert measures with his allies.
		Favorable terms were granted to Magdeburg, which surrendered and remained in the power of Maurice, and in January 1552 a treaty was concluded with Henri II of France at Chambord.
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	The History of the Thirty Years' War - Part IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Both bishoprics, with the exception of the town of Magdeburg itself, were overrun by the troops of Wallenstein.
		It happened, moreover, that by the death of the Administrator Duke Christian of Brunswick, Halberstadt was vacant, as was also the Archbishopric of Magdeburg by the deposition of Christian William, a prince of the House of Brandenburgh.
		To avoid a similar coercion, the Chapter of Magdeburg hastened to elect a son of the Elector of Saxony as archbishop.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/TheHistoryoftheThirtyYearsWar/chap10.html (5279 words)

	Juterbog - LoveToKnow 1911
		Jiiterbog carries on weaving and spinning both of flax and wool, and trades in the produce of those manufactures and in cattle.
		Jiiterbog belonged in the later middle ages to the archbishopric of Magdeburg, passing to electoral Saxony in 1648, and to Prussia in 1815.
		It was here that a treaty over the succession to the duchy of Jiilich was made in March 1611 between Saxony and Brandenburg, and here in November 1644 the Swedes defeated the Imperialists.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Juterbog (191 words)

	Magdeburg
		Magdeburg first played an important part in the history of Germany during the reign of
		The city of Magdeburg obtained from the archbishops a charter that was the model for hundreds of medieval town charters in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Poland.
		trade revived after the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which transferred both the city and the archbishopric (which was secularized and made a duchy) to the electorate of Brandenburg.
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	Wikinfo \| Magdeburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The city center is rebuilt almost exclusively in a modern style, rejecting Madgeburg's millennia spanning history.
		Magdeburg's most impressive building, the cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice, has a height of 104 m.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Magdeburg (971 words)

	Faust's Metropolis
		Magdeburg continued to be a frontier post under Charlemagne's successors but it was not until the reign of Henry the Fowler, who ruled from 919 to 936, that a fresh attempt was made to push the borders of Christianity eastward.
		This posed a problem for the Germans, and in particular for Otto I. When Otto made Magdeburg an archbishopric in 961 he had seen it as the base from which all territory from Saxony to Russia would be Christianized, a move which would in turn have brought all of east central Europe under German control.
		It was the creation of a new archbishopric which finally severed the Polish Church from control of the German archbishopric at Magdeburg.
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	History Channel Search Results
		The archbishopric of Bremen and the bishopric of Verden were also ceded to Sweden, and both Sweden and France obtained the right to vote in the diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
		As compensation for its cessions in Pomerania, Brandenburg obtained Cammin and the bishoprics of Halberstadt and Minden, together with succession to the archbishopric of Magdeburg.
		Mecklenburg-Schwerin was enlarged by the bishoprics of Schwerin and Ratzeburg in compensation for Wismar.
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		See the Regesta archiepiscopatus magdeburgensis, ' edited by G. von Miilverstedt (Magdeburg, 1876–1899) ; and K. Uhlirz, Geschichte des Erzbistums Magdeburg unter den Kaisern aus sachsischem House (Magdeburg, 1887).
		In 1294 it was again united with the archbishopric and the prelates retained it until 1538; then in 1579 Augustus, elector of Saxony, made an arrangement which again gave the office to the archbishops, who held it until the secularization of the see.
		It was written in Latin in 1562, its principal author being the reformer Matthias Flacius, who was assisted by other Lutheran theologians.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=65264&locale=en (571 words)

	Science Tribune
		The monastery was later to become the archbishopric of Magdeburg and to reign over the area for over 700 years.
		The archbishop of Magdeburg leased the brine resources and pan-houses to burghers of the town and granted certain individuals the right to oversee salt-production in these pan-houses.
		In 1680, the archbishopric of Magdeburg became part of Brandenburg-Prussia and, in 1719, the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm I, ordered the construction of a new salt-works near the town.
	www.tribunes.com /tribune/sel/just.htm (1537 words)

	The Destruction of Magdeburg - ExChristian.Net - Articles
		Otto von Guericke, Burgomeister of Magdeburg, recorded the destruction of the city by imperial troops in May of 1631.
		The most magnificent garments, hangings, silk stuffs, gold and silver lace, linen of all sorts, and other household goods were bought by the army sutlers for a mere song and peddled about by the cart load all through the archbishopric of Magdeburg and in Anhalt and Brunswick.
		Gold chains and rings, jewels, and every kind of gold and silver utensils were to be bought from the common soldiers for a tenth of their real value.
	exchristian.net /exchristian/2002/04/destruction-of-magdeburg.php (516 words)

	Frederick I (Barbarossa)
		Another prelate, also a stanch supporter of the king, was Wichmann, Archbishop of Magdeburg, more of a soldier than a bishop, and uncanonically promoted from the See of Zeitz to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg.
		The administrators of his family property, the ministeriales, were not only managers of great estates, but at the same time an ever-ready body of warriors.
		The negotiations between the king and the pope concerning the appointment to the See of Magdeburg revealed for the first time a radical difference between the policies of the Church and the State.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/frederick_i.html (2319 words)

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