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	BRUNSWICK - LoveToKnow Article on BRUNSWICK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		History.The lands which comprise the modern duchy of Brunswick belonged in the 10th century to the family of the Brunos, whence the name Brunswick is derived, of the counts of Nordheim, and the counts of Supplinburg.
		BRUNSWICK, a village of Cumberland county, Maine,U.S.A., in the township of Brunswick, on the Androscoggin river, 9 m.
		Brunswick is served by the Maine Central railway, and by the Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath, and the Portland and Brunswick electric railways.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRUNSWICK.htm (4354 words)

	The House of Brunswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg (Hanover) (1641-1648).
		Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg (Hanover) (1648-1665).
		Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg (Hanover) (1665-1679).
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/Brunswick/Brunswick.html (1282 words)

	Brunswick County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brunswick County is a county located in the state of North Carolina.
		It was named for the (now abandoned) colonial port of Brunswick, which was itself named for Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg; at the time held by the British kings of the House of Hanover.
		Brunswick County is a member of the regional Cape Fear Council of Governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brunswick_County,_North_Carolina (440 words)

	Brunswick-Lüneburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After 1267 the duchy was split into two partial states, the lines of Lüneburg and of Wolfenbüttel (which later became a multitude of partial states), but all of them were ruled by the Welfen dynasty and maintained close relations.
		The duchy would have passed on to the Hanover line, but since the Hanoverians refused to accept the Prussian annexation of their kingdom, they were not allowed to accede to rule in Brunswick.
		The duchy was governed by regents until in 1913, when the Hanover line was reconciled to the Hohenzollern dynasty, renounced its rights to the Kingdom of Hanover and Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg became duke of Brunswick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brunswick_%28state%29 (756 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Brunswick
		Brunswick is the major urban and economic center in the southeast corner of Georgia.
		Brunswick is on a peninsula bounded by the Brunswick River on the south and by the East River and Turtle River on the west.
		Brunswick is home to Glynn Academy, one of the oldest public schools—and the second-oldest high school—in Georgia, chartered by the state in 1788.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/CitiesCounties/Cities&id=h-850 (833 words)

	brunswick-lüneburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After 1267 the duchy was split into two partial states (which later became a multitude of partial states), but all of them were ruled by the Welfen dynasty and still formed a common state.
		One of the collateral lines was the line of the dukes of Calenberg, who managed to gain all the territory of the former duchy except for the Wolfenbüttel line.
		The Duchy of Brunswick joined the German Empire in 1871 and became a part of the Weimar Republic in 1919.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Brunswick-L%FCneburg.html (325 words)

	Hanover (state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was frequently subdivided into different principalities, each of which was ruled by a duke; one of these was the Principality of Calenberg.
		It fell to the Principality of Wolfenbüttel in 1584.
		It lost those parts of the Duchy of Lauenburg to the right of the Elbe, and several small exclaves in the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calenberg (547 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brunswick-LÃ¼neburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saxon state of Henry the Lion (face of statue on his tomb in Brunswick Cathedral) Henry the Lion (1129/1131 - August 6, 1195; in German, Heinrich der LÃ¶we) was Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156, both until 1180.
		The Duchy of Brunswick joined the The term German Empire (Deutsches Reich) commonly refers to Germany, from its consolidation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871, until the abdication of Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm II on November 9, 1918.
		1871 and, as the Free State of Brunswick, became a part of the The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (Pronounced Vye-Mar, and in German it is known as the Weimarer Republik).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brunswick_L%FCneburg (3177 words)

	Brunswick Billiard Tables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brunswick = Bruno'swik was an ideal resting-place, as it lay by a ford across the Oker River.
		Brunswick was a member of the Hanseatic League from the 13th to the middle of the 17thcentury.
		Brunswick was a duchy until 1918, and afterwards a state within the Weimar Republic.
	www.witchware.com /File/29514-Brunswick.Billiard.Tables.Html (435 words)

	Government of New Brunswick - Department of Training and Employment Development - Contacts
		The province takes its name from the Duchy of Brunswick in Germany, which in 1784, the year the province was established, was in the possession of King George III.
		The arms of Brunswick consist of two gold lions on a red field, and the arms of the King contained the three gold lions of England.
		Represented in the design are the forest green of lumbering, the meadow green of agriculture, the blue of coastal and inland waters, all interwoven with gold, a symbol of the province's potential wealth.
	www.gnb.ca /cnb/nb/Symbols-e.asp (674 words)

	Decorations of the Duchy of Brunswick
		The Duchy of Brunswick was one of oldest states in Germany, with an almost continuous existence under the same ruling family dating back to the 1200s.
		In the 1905 census, the duchy showed a population of 485,655, of which 136,162 were in the city of Brunswick alone.
		At the outbreak of World War One, the 92nd Brunswick Infantry Regiment was part of the 40th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Infantry Division, while the 6 squadrons of the 17th "Death's Head" Hussars were the X Corps' reconnaissance element, three squadrons to each of the corps' two divisions.
	home.att.net /~david.danner/militaria/braunschweig.htm (1269 words)

	Ducal Standards 1831-1918 (Brunswick, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The duchy of Brunswick was formed out of the possessions of the senior branch of the house of Brunswick.
		Brunswick and Hanover should have been rejoined at that time, but Prussia had annexed the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866 and now prevented the younger branch of the house of Brunswick from taking up the ducal crown.
		In 1913 peace was sealed [between the House of Brunswick/Hanover and Prussia] with the marriage of prince Ernst August of Hanover to Victoria Louise, daughter of the German Emperor William II.
	www.flagspot.net /flags/de-bs^d.html (616 words)

	Anhalt - GenWiki
		A duchy of Germany, and a constituent state of the German empire, formed, in 1863, by the amalgamation of the two duchies Anhalt-Dessau-Cöthen and Anhalt-Bernburg, and comprising all the various Anhalt territories which were sundered apart in 1603.
		The eastern and larger portion of the duchy is enclosed by the Prussian government district of Potsdam (in the Prussian province of Brandenburg), and Magdeburg and Merseburg (belonging to the Prussian province of Saxony).
		The portion of the duchy lying east of the Elbe is mostly a flat sandy plain, with extensive pine forests, though interspersed, at intervals, by bog-land and rich pastures.
	wiki-en.genealogy.net /wiki/Anhalt (1977 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Brunswick (Braunschweig)
		Prominent among the Dukes of Brunswick in post-Reformation times is Anton Ulrich, said to have been the most learned prince of his time, a patron of the arts and sciences, himself a poet, and a student of the early Fathers.
		Pope Gregory XVI placed the Catholics of the Duchy of Brunswick under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Hildesheim.
		The general statement, therefore, in the "Kirchenlexicon", that the law of 1867 has rendered the condition of the Catholics in the Duchy of Brunswick "wholly satisfactory", needs recension; it must be restricted to the three above-named parishes; in the rest of the duchy the condition of Catholics is far from satisfactory.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03019a.htm (1427 words)

	BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig) - Online Information article about BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
		ban and his duchy dismembered in 1181, he was allowed to retain his hereditary possessions, which consisted of a large part of Brunswick and Luneburg.
		Magnus I., duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel from 1345 to 1369, was the ancestor of the later dukes of Brunswick.
		Brunswick was divided between the two branches of the Luneburg.family.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BRI_BUN/BRUNSWICK_Ger_Braunschweig_.html (2802 words)

	New Brunswick
		New Brunswick is one of 3 provinces collectively known as the "Maritimes." Joined to Nova Scotia by the narrow Chignecto Isthmus and separated from Prince Edward Island by the Northumberland Strait, New Brunswick forms the land bridge linking this region to continental North America.
		In 1784 the British divided Nova Scotia at the Chignecto Isthmus, naming the west and north portion New Brunswick after the German duchy of Brunswick-Lunenburg, which was also ruled at the time by King George III of England.
		New Brunswick was one of the 4 original provinces, its entry being essential to CONFEDERATION.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005695 (251 words)

	General Travel, New Brunswick Canada
		Brunswick, consisting of a shield of arms depicting a gold lion on a red background, and below it an ancient galley in the water with oars in action.
		The lion alludes to the arms of the Duchy of Brunswick in Germany (two gold lions on a red field) which was a possession of King George III at the time the Province of New Brunswick was established in 1784.
		New Brunswick is a province with a diverse and fascinating cultural heritage.
	www.new-brunswick.net /new-brunswick/gentravel.html (3048 words)

	Duchy of Brunswick until 1918 (Germany)
		The house of Brunswick or Guelph [Welf] family (...) was divided in 1546 into two branches, the senior line of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel that ruled over the duchy of Brunswick and the younger line of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg which ruled over Hanover.
		(...) Both branches used in their arms the two lions of Brunswick (said to be granted by the English king to his son in law, the duke of Brunswick in the thirteenth century), the blue lion of Lüneburg and the white horse [on red] of (Lower) Saxony.
		Brunswick is the English name for the county Braunschweig which is located near Hannover (in the East).
	www.fotw.net /flags/de-bs814.html (1064 words)

	Christian Ludwig (1622-1665) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christian Ludwig was the eldest of four sons born to duke Georg (1583-1641) of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg and Anna Eleonore of Hessen - Darmstadt (1601-1659).
		Upon the death of his father, Christian inherited the Duchy of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg (Hanover) in 1641.
		In 1648 he inherited the duchy of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Celle from his uncle Friedrich (1574-1648), and the Duchy of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg (Hanover) passed to his brother, Georg Wilhelm (1624-1705).
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/ChristianLudwig/ChristianLudwig.html (146 words)

	Germany, the German Confederation
		Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, Denmark; to Austria, 1864; to Prussia, 1866
		Duchy and Principality of Nassau, Usingen, & Nassau-Weilburg, to Prussia, 1866
		The Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg were ruled by Denmark, together with the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, which contained both German and Danish speakers.
	www.friesian.com /deutsch.htm (3730 words)

	Lüchow-Dannenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These counties were originally Slavic states, that lost their independence to the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the beginning of the 14th century.
		In medieval times the district's area was ruled by the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg resp.
		The area was ruled by Lüneburg until 1705 and became then a part of the duchy of Hanover.
	www.portaljuice.com /luechow_dannenberg.html (301 words)

	Bruns
		The Duchy of Brunswick is a Dukedom in Northern Germany and the Duke of Brunswick became a veritable and implacable foe of Napoleon when Napoleon literally erased the Duchy of Brunswick off the map.
		The Brunswickers gave a good account of themselves in the Peninsular War (one cannot imagine a worser climate than Spain to fight in fl!) and returned for an encore Emperor toppling engagement at Waterloo.
		On the Isle of Wight the brunswick troops were reorganised.
	www.hat.com /Othr/Bruns.html (2908 words)

	HistoryDuchyBrunswick Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The population of the Duchy, in the 1770's, was approximately 200,000 inhabitants.
		Until 1754 the city of Wolfenbüttel was the residence of the Dukes of Brunswick.
		The power of the city of Wolfenbüttel was on the decline and from 1754 on the city of Brunswick became the new residence of Duke Carl I., who was the reigning Duke from 1735 to 1780.
	www.myerchin.org /HistoryDuchyBrunswickR.html (1589 words)

	HOLZMINDEN - LoveToKnow Article on HOLZMINDEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, on the right bank of the Weser, at the foot of the Sollinger Mountains, at the junction of the railways Scherfede-Holzminden and Soest-Bdrssum, 56 m.
		By means of the Weser it carries on a lively trade.
		Holzminden obtained municipal rights from Count Otto of Eberstein ~fl 1245, and in 1410 it came into the possession of Brunswick.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOLZMINDEN.htm (140 words)

	Detailed information about New Brunswick.
		New Brunswick, the largest of Canada's three Maritime provinces, is nestled under Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula and beside the State of Maine.
		The eastern boundary is entirely coastal - the Gulf of St Lawrence and Northumberland Strait - and delightfully dotted with warm, sandy beaches...the warmest salt water north of Virginia.
		New Brunswick covers 73,440 square kilometres in roughly a rectangle shape about 242 kilometres (150 miles) from east to west and 322 kilometres (200 miles) north to south.
	www.maxximvacations.com /new-brunswick/travel-tourism-information.asp (1192 words)

	Brunswick County Records
		Brunswick County included the present Virginia counties of Brunswick, Charlotte, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, a small portion of western Greensville, the southwestern corner of Nottoway, the majority of Prince Edward, the southern portion of Appomattox, almost all of Campbell, and the land to the west with an indeterminate western boundary.
		Brunswick's population grew rapidly as tobacco farmers from eastern counties pushed into the virgin soils of the new county and began the tobacco planting cycle anew.
		The court records for the county are virtually intact and, although the courthouse was the object of a Union raid in 1864, the vandalism of the building did not destroy the records themselves.
	genealogyresources.org /Brunswick.html (432 words)

	Westphalia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ruhr district is connected with the Ems River by the Dortmund-Ems Canal and with the Elbe River by the Midland Canal.
		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 bishoprics of Münster, Paderborn, and Osnabrück and the duchy of Westphalia were secularized only in 1803 by the Diet of Regensburg as a result of the French Revolutionary wars; they were at first partitioned among Prussia, Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Kassel, and the grand duchy of Berg.
	www.bartleby.com /65/we/Westphal.html (543 words)

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