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  Region
Koshin'etsu region Kōshin'etsu (甲信越) is a subregion of the Shinano and Echigo provinces.
Ruse (region) Ruse is a region of northern Ruse.
Shumen (region) Shumen is a region in northeastern Bulgaria.
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 Arnsberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arnsberg is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
It belongs to the district Hochsauerland, in the administrative region of Arnsberg.
In 12th century old Arnsberg was the seat of Westphalian jurisdiction, but one century earlier it was seat of the dukes of Arnsberg who built their castle there.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Arnsberg.htm   (227 words)

  
 Hochsauerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The district was established in 1975 in the reorganization of the districts in North Rhine-Westphalia by merging the previous districts Arnsberg, Brilon and Meschede.
The coat of arms was inherited from the former district Arnsberg.
When their county lost independence in 1368 it fell to the bishops of Cologne, thus the sign on the breast of the eagle shows the Cologne cross.
factsite.co.uk /en/wikipedia/h/ho/hochsauerland.html   (143 words)

  
 Arnsberg --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arnsberg is bordered by Hesse Land to the east, Rhineland-Palatinate Land to the southwest, and the Regierungsbezirke of Köln and Düsseldorf to the west and Münster and Detmold to the north.
Arnsberg originated in the 11th century around a castle of the counts of Werl and was chartered in 1238.
Düsseldorf is bordered by The Netherlands to the west and the Regierungsbezirke of Münster to the northeast, Arnsberg to the east, and Köln to the south.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009586   (402 words)

  
 Beijing Official Website International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Köln is bordered by Rhineland-Palatinate Land to the south, Belgium and The Netherlands to the west, and the Regierungsbezirke of D¨¹sseldorf to the north and Arnsberg to the northeast.
Regional landforms trend in a north¨Csouth line, the most prominent being the Rhine River, situated along the extreme eastern edge of the lowland; the Erft and Rur rivers dissect the western section.
The partially wooded plateau region of the Bergisches Land rises from the east bank of the Rhine, extending over an area that was once the county and duchy of Berg (q.v.).
www.ebeijing.gov.cn /ying/t20040105_95230.htm   (712 words)

  
 Cascades Europe
In Arnsberg, the quantity of water used is steadily declining.
Concrete steps have been taken: renewal of the silencers on the loading trucks, replacement of the steel wheels on the scrap containers with tyres, improvement to the drainage hatch in pre-drying, and construction of a new parking space for trucks, away from residential areas.
The Arnsberg and Blendecques mills have now been awarded their ISO 14001 environmental certification and the La Rochette mill expects to join them in the next few months.
www.cascades.com /cas/en/1_0/1_0_4/1_0_4_0_4.jsp   (475 words)

  
 Märkischer Kreis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The district was created in 1975 as part of the reorganization of North Rhine-Westphalian districts.
The former districts of Lüdenscheid and Iserlohn, together with the city of Iserlohn, plus the area around Balve (previously part of Arnsberg District) were amalgamated to form the new district.
Lüdenscheid District itself had been created just a few years earlier, in 1968, when the the city of Lüdenscheid was merged with Altena District (originally created in 1753).
factsite.co.uk /en/wikipedia/m/ma/maerkischer_kreis.html   (453 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
My oldest known ancestors were citizens of Hirschberg in the Sauerland region of Germany in 17th century living in near-by Eversberg (Ever=Eber, meaning a boar) from about 1696 to about 1850.
The canting civic arm of the city of Eversburg in Hochsauerlandkreis (that`s a county) are blazoned: Argent a boar Sable, in chief on a sloping escutcheon Azure an eagle Or armed Argent.
These were the arms of Grafen von Arnsberg, the former feudal Lords of the city.
www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk /interarmsgal/gallery.asp?ID=75   (175 words)

  
 Westphalia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The region of Westphalia occupies, roughly, a triangle formed by a line drawn eastward from the Rhine River at the Dutch border to the Weser River at Minden, a line drawn from Minden southwestward to Siegen (near the border with Hesse), and a line drawn to the northwest from Siegen and parallel to the Rhine.
The region is drained by the Ems, Weser, Ruhr, and Lippe rivers; it is hilly in the east and south and forms a low plain in the northwest.
The Ruhr district is connected with the Ems River by the Dortmund-Ems Canal and with the Elbe River by the Midland Canal.
www.bartleby.com /65/we/Westphal.html   (543 words)

  
 German Surname Maps: Butcher Surnames
In some of the South German regions more than 2 from 1,000 people have butcher surnames while less than 0.5 from 1,000 people from the north can say: my very first ancestor with this surname was a butcher.
In the three Saxon regions are 71, 81 and 90 Fleischer per 100,000 entries (A).
In all regions where the surname Sulzer is frequent (the four areas of category A) are villages with the name Sulz.
www.tr62.de /names/maps/fleischer.html   (2081 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Westphalia
In the later Middle Ages the name Engern disappeared and the region of the Weser was then considered a part of Westphalia.
In the fourteenth century the object of the Crusades was the heathen land of the Prussians.
Lutheranism was also partially superseded by Calvinism, as in the countships of Mark and Tecklenburg, in the Diocese of Münster, and in Southern Westphalia (Wittgenstein and Nassau-Siegen), while the flourishing cities of Soest, Lippstadt, Herford, Bielefeld, and Dortmund held to the Lutheran faith, the stronghold and pattern of Lutheranism being Soest.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15601b.htm   (3532 words)

  
 Westphalia -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Unlike Eastphalia, the eastern third of the duchy of Saxony, Westphalia survived the breakup (1180) of the Saxon duchy as a regional concept, although it lost political unity.
The larger part of Westphalia came under the rule of ecclesiastical princes—the bishops of Münster, Osnabrück, Minden, and Paderborn and the archbishops of Cologne, who obtained the region around Arnsberg, known as the duchy of Westphalia.
Among the temporal fiefs that emerged from the breakup of Saxony were the counties of Lippe, Ravensberg, and Mark.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/westphal_history.asp   (637 words)

  
 Alba Iulia Online
Alba Iulia is in partnership with 9 cities from Europe: Arnsberg, Székesfehérvár, Nazareth Illia, Aeghio, Alcalá de Henares, Sliven, Duzce, San Benedetto del Tronto and Varese (Italy, since 2003).
Arnsberg Town Hall has helped in setting up a foundation for child protection in Alba Iulia.
With 45,000 residents Nazareth Illit is the capital of the Galilee region.
www.apulum.ro /en/orase_infratite.htm   (356 words)

  
 Search Results for wester - Encyclopædia Britannica
The state includes the upland regions of North Eifel in the south and the mountains of the Sauerland in the southeast.
Volcanic rock occurs in the region of the Siebengebirge (“Seven Hills”) on the...
historic region, northern Scotland, spanning the width of the country from the North Sea on the east to the Atlantic Ocean on the west.
www.britannica.com /search?query=wester&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (302 words)

  
 Germany
Germany consists of three major geographical regions-lowland plain in the north, an area of uplands in the center, and a mountainous region in the south.
The central uplands region, the approximate boundaries of which are the latitude of Hannover, in the north, and the Main River, in the south, encompasses a complex terrain of low mountains, river valleys, and well-defined basins.
The northern region is influenced by marine weather systems, producing milder winters than in the remainder of the country but also a greater susceptibility to storms.
www.ovayonda.biz /lodging/country/de.html   (781 words)

  
 Jewish Life in Upper Hessen
This situation is a sufficient explanation for the clustering of Jewish congregations in the region.
For the year 1932, Arnsberg counts 402 congregations in Hessen as a whole, 198 in the Volksstaat Hessen (the former Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt).
While better harvests and the displacement of the rural population due to industrialization led to a lessening of tensions, a pernicious structural pattern had been established, as was to be seen again in the aftermath of the so-called "Gründerkrise" [depression of the founding years of the Second Empire] after 1871.
www.goethe.de /ins/us/was/pro/cohen/hessen.htm   (3350 words)

  
 Search Results for Ruhr - Encyclopædia Britannica
region, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany, along the east bank of the Rhine River, between the Sieg River south of Cologne and the Ruhr River near Duisburg, merging into the...
Bituminous coal deposits are located in the regions of the Ruhr and Aachen, and lignite is mined...
Arnsberg is bordered by Hesse Land to the east, Rhineland-Palatinate Land to the...
www.britannica.com /search?query=Ruhr&submit=Find&source=MWTAB   (349 words)

  
 Regeneration
Resources are targeted at actions which help bridge the gaps between the more and the less developed regions and which promote equal employment opportunities between different social groups, according to certain priority objectives.
This in itself is not an unusual story in a region which is coping with structural change.
What is unusual, however, is the zeal and success with which the city of Lünen has converted an outdated mine into a future-oriented centre of technology and innovation.
www.bura.org.uk /publications/newsletterwinter1998/page4.htm   (512 words)

  
 Ache Coat of Arms
As far back as 500 BC, the north central region now known as Germany was once occupied by the Celts and at its northern reaches Teutonic tribes.
The region was occupied by the Romans, who founded many of the region's beautiful and historic cities as Roman settlements.
Lower Saxony, which includes most of the land between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers and is composed of the regions of Brunswick, or Braunschweig, and Lueneburg, was originally part of the old duchy of Saxony.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/ache-coat-arms.htm   (1936 words)

  
 Porcine Teschoviruses Comprise at Least Eleven Distinct Serotypes: Molecular and Evolutionary Aspects -- Zell et al. 75 ...
Names of gene regions (not drawn to scale) encoding viral proteins are presented.
region of a member of CPE group I was cloned and sequenced (9,
Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees.
jvi.asm.org /cgi/pmidlookup?view=full&pmid=11160660   (4886 words)

  
 Ever-Increasing World Fluoride Pollution Of Air, Water, And Food Supply
The following types of environmental contamination were considered in the study: emissions and concentrations of 16 air pollutants; content and distribution of 15 elements in soils and plants at the polluted and unpolluted territories.
Many countries in the region have problems in rural areas, where the networks are small or consumers depend on private wells, and treatment of drinking water is either poor or nonexistent.
The impact on livestock is so great that many herders have decided to leave their flocks, the only source of income in the region.
www.rense.com /general6/everincreasing.htm   (3104 words)

  
 PCWorld.com - German Court Upholds Ban on Nazi Web Sites
On Thursday, the administrative court in Arnsberg, Germany, ordered an ISP to immediately block access to objectionable sites, according to Jurgen Schutte, an official with the NRW state government in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The ISP, whose name is being withheld, filed a lawsuit earlier in the year against the state government's ban, which was initiated in February, Schutte said.
NRW, Germany's most populous region, is the only state in Germany to have issued a ban on Web sites disseminating neo-Nazi information.
www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,107966,00.asp   (413 words)

  
 GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland) - Online Information article about GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)
The latter is a range of wooded heights on the frontier of Bavaria and Bohemia, occupying the least known and least frequented regions of Germany.
The northern and southern limits of the Niederrheinische Gebirge present a striking contrast to the central region.
Lakes.—The regions which abound in lakes have already been pointed out.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GERMANY_Ger_Deutschland_.html   (5121 words)

  
 Microfungi - Fascicle 13
75 km N of Québec, region of the experimental station of the Université Laval, eastern shore of Lac Piché.
Bayern, Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern, Landkreis München, region S of München, walking trail between the community Pullach i.
3.5 km SSE of Hallein, region north of the mouth of the river Taugl in the river Salzach.
www.botanischestaatssammlung.de /arnoldia/mifufc13.html   (604 words)

  
 Special Collections
Planimetric map of the region covered by sheet 1.M of G.S.G.S. no. 2739 (MM8).
Shows military motor transport routes in the Albert region (France).
Shows military motor transport routes in the Cassel region (France).
gateway.uvic.ca /spcoll/Mil/MILMAPS.html   (5686 words)

  
 Buessow - an assault on our freedom
Pushed by the Büssow as the head of administration of the region of Düsseldorf three courts out of four have decided to maintain the immediate execution of the order requiring ISP's to block of foreign content.
Information that is legal and widely available in the originating country are supposed to be invisible in Germany.
VG Arnsberg and the VG Gelsenkirchen decided that blocking two hate-speech sites (out of more than 3000) in an inefficient manner was of higher value than our freedom to receive information from other cultures.
www.fitug.de /news/pes/21012003_en.html   (623 words)

  
 Capital Region Baseball Time Line, 1951-
Baseball is truly the National Pastime, and that means that it has touched each and every region of the American nation, including our own.
Capital Region baseball has a rich history in our viewing area, stretching back to the earliest days of the game.
Arnsberg is named EL Pitcher of the Year and Yankee Farm System Pitcher of the Year.
www.davidpietrusza.com /capital-reg-baseball-4.html   (4247 words)

  
 guichett - 31990D0678 -
Whereas in certain parts of the territory of Germany, Belgium, France and Italy swine fever has not been detected for more than one year; whereas, consequently, these parts of the territory fulfil the requirements for being recognized as swine fever free for the purpose of intra-Community trade in fresh meat,
Cremona, Mantova, Milan, Pavia, Sondrio and Varese (Lombardy region),
- Arezzo, Florence, Lucca, Pistoia and Massa Carrara (Toscana region),
europa.eu.int /smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=31990D0678&model=guichett   (859 words)

  
 Welcome to KLAFIR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The program is composed of lecture, seminar and visits to public institutes, local authorities, and major business enterprises in the region.
The number of participants in this program are 16 including Mayor of Sogwipo, Cheju Province, Division Director of International Trade, Inchon Metropolitan City, Deputy Director, Yoo, Keun Ho of KLAFIR, mayors and high ranking officials from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, which are related to East and Southeast Network.
The main purpose of this training is to learn best administrative practices and experiences of the region for the member countries of East and Southeast Network for Better Local Government, which was established last year.
www.klafir.or.kr /eng/pub/15/05.htm   (206 words)

  
 Patten and Allied Families - pafn18 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Before Napoleon, today's Westfalen region was part of several different governmental units, including the Duchy of Westfalen, centered in Arnsberg.
The Bishopric of Minden, of which Eisbergen is a part, was made a part of Prussia as part of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the treaty which ended the Thirty Years' War.
The larger part of Westphalia came under the rule of ecclesiastical princes-the bishops of Münster, Osnabrück, Minden, and Paderborn and the archbishops of Cologne, who obtained the region around Arnsberg, known as the duchy of Westphalia.
www.thepattens.info /paf/pafn18.htm   (1492 words)

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