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	Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse.
		In the early Middle Ages, Hesse was a part of Thuringia, but in the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247-64) Hesse gained its independence and became an earldom within the Holy Roman Empire.
		In 1866 it was annexed by Prussia, together with the Free City of Frankfurt, Hessen-Homburg and the duchy of Nassau, which established the province of Hessen-Nassau.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hesse (518 words)

	Station Information - Nassau (duchy)
		Nassau was a German state within the Holy Roman Empire.
		The castle of Nassau was built in 1125, and since 1160 the county was named after the castle.
		In 1255 Nassau was divided for the first time.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nassau__duchy_.html (112 words)

	Nassau, former duchy, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The region takes its name from the small town of Nassau, on the Lahn E of Ems, where the original castle of the house of Nassau was built in the early 12th cent.
		In 1806, Nassau, which had received some territorial additions, joined the Confederation of the Rhine and was raised to a duchy.
		Nassau was then united with the former Electoral Hesse to form the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
	www.bartleby.com /65/na/NassauGer.html (425 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hesse
		Hesse was separated from Thuringia, and, after a long struggle with other claimants of the title, Henry established his authority as Landgrave of Hesse.
		Philip's imprisonment by Charles V scarcely exercised a perceptible influence on the progress of the Reformation, and in 1551 Sebastian von Heusenstamm, Archbishop of Mainz, was compelled to resign finally all claims to jurisdiction in Hesse.
		Hesse therefore took part in the negotiations of several German states, which resulted in the erection of the ecclesiastical province of the Upper Rhine by the papal Bulls "Provida solersque" (1821) and "Ad Dominici gregis custodiam" (1827).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07298c.htm (2436 words)

	Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, aswell as the German mathematician Otto Hesse.
		Situated in western-central Germany, Hesse borders on (from the north-west and clockwise) the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.
		Essentially (except for the parts of Hesse on the western banks of the Rhine, which became a part of Rhineland-Palatinate), this was a restoration of the pre-1567Hesse.
	www.therfcc.org /hesse-25798.html (409 words)

	boys clothing: German royalty--Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hesse is English for Hessen, which was in the 19th century a region of Germany with fluctuating boundaries, situated somewhat west of mid-central southwestern Germany.
		Hesse was estanlished as a separate landgraviate in 1247 by Duchess Sophia, niece of the Thuringian ruler, Henry Raspe.
		The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (Hesse und bei Rhein) was established by George I, son of Philip the Magnanimous in 1567.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/gers/royal-hesse.htm (787 words)

	Province of Hesse-Nassau 1866-1945 (Prussia, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Electorate of Hesse-Cassel / Electoral Hesse 1815-1866 (Kurfürstentum Hessen-Kassel / Kurhessen)
		In 1922, the flag of the Bezirksverband Kassel was red-white in horizontal stripes.
		The coat of arms of the Bezirksverband or governmental district of Kassel was "azure a lion of Hesse alternatively striped gules and argent (9 stripes) tongued gules, armed and crowned (Blätterkrone) or".
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-pr-he.html (333 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Germany/Hesse 2003
		Ducal standard of the Duchy of Nassau - Wiesbaden served as the capital of this Duchy during the 19th Century.
		The Dukes of Nassau were descended from a family whose origins are in the small town of Nassau, located on the Lahn River near the Hesse border in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
		The area of the Duchy of Nassau is north and east of the Rhine and so largely included in the modern-day states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.
	www.internationalreports.net /europe/germany/hesse/2003/nassau.html (301 words)

	Historical Flags (Hesse, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Enfeoffed first to the dukes of Franconia, later to the counts of Thuringia, Hesse emerged in 1247 as a landgraviate immediately subject to the emperor under a branch of the house of Brabant.
		Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous (Philip of Hesse), a leading figure in the German Reformation, was responsible for reuniting a territory that had been torn by border disputes with neighboring areas.
		Electoral Hesse, the free city of Frankfurt, and Nassau, having all three sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), were annexed by Prussia and were merged (1868) in the province of Hesse-Nassau, of which Kassel became the capital.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-he_hi.html (361 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hesse-Nassau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hesse-Kassel (Hessen-Kassel) was a German principality that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1568 upon the death of Landgrave Philip of Hesse and his eldest son Wilhelm IV inherited the northern portion and established his capital in Kassel.
		The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt came into existence in 1568, as the portion of George, youngest of the four sons of Landgrave Philipp of Hesse.
		Kassel is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the north of the country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hesse_Nassau (619 words)

	Hesse-Kassel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick II, notably, hired out his troops to his nephew George III of Britain to suppress the rebellion of the American colonies, the American Revolution, using the revenue to finance his opulent lifestyle.
		In 1918, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse-Kassel, younger brother of the head of the house and a brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, was elected by the Finnish pro-German government to be King of Finland, but he never reigned.
		In 1968, the head of the House of Hesse-Kassel became the Head of the entire House of Hesse due to the extinction of the Hesse-Darmstadt line.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hesse-Kassel (469 words)

	Hesse-Darmstadt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1806, upon the dissolution of the Reich and the dispossession of his cousin, the Elector of Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave took the title of Grand Duke of Hesse.
		At the Congress of Vienna, the Grand Duke was forced to cede Westphalia to Prussia, in exchange for which he received a piece of territory on the Left Bank of the Rhine, including the important federal fortress at Mainz.
		In 1867, the northern half of the Grand Duchy became a part of the North German Confederation, while the half of the Grand Duchy south of the Main remained outside.
	www.termsdefined.net /he/hesse-darmstadt.html (439 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Hesse-Homburg
		In 1866, Hesse-Homburg was inherited by the grand-duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, while Meisenheim fell to Prussia.
		Later that same year these territories were taken from Hesse-Darmstadt again, and the former landgraviate was combined with electorate of Hesse-Kassel, duchy of Nassau, and the free city of Frankfurt to form the Prussian provice of Hesse-Nassau.
		Today it forms a part of the German state of Hesse.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Hesse-Homburg (380 words)

	Hesse-Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1929, Waldeck became a part of Hesse-Nassau.
		In 1945, after the end of World War II, they were merged with the neighbouring Hesse-Darmstadt into the newly founded state of Hesse.
		Parts of Nassau were moved into the Rhineland-Palatinate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hesse-Nassau (106 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Smalkaldic League
		The princes of Saxony and Hesse were appointed military commanders of the confederation, and its military strength fixed at 10,000 infantry and 2000 cavalry.
		At a meeting held at Smalkalden in Dec., 1535, the alliance was renewed for ten years, and the maintenance of the former military strength decreed, with the stipulation that it should be doubled in case of emergency.
		The conditions of peace included the transfer of the electoral dignity from the former to his cousin Maurice, the reinstatement of Duke Henry of Wolfenbüttel in his dominions, the restoration of Bishop Julius von Pflug to his See of Naumburg-Zeitz, and a promise demanded of the vanquished to recognize and attend the Council of Trent.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14058b.htm (669 words)

	Nassau on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Long-distance movement of a Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) to a spawning aggregation in the central Bahamas.
		Hélicoptères sur le pont du porte-avions Nassau dans le Golfe Le Pentagone, accélérant ses préparatifs de guerre, va compt.
		Nassau is the capital, main port and only real town on New Providence Island, one of 700 Bahama islands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NassauG1er.asp (961 words)

	The Damon and Taber Family Connections - Person Page 12253 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Princess Amalie Charlotte Wilhelmine (of Nassau) was the daughter of Prince Karl Christian (of Nassau-Weilburg) and Princess Wilhelmine Karoline (of Nassau-Weilburg).
		Princess Amalie Charlotte Wilhelmine (of Nassau) was born on 6 August 1776 in Pfalz, Bavaria.
		Princess Amalie Charlotte Wilhelmine (of Nassau) died on 19 February 1841 in Schaumburg, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, at age 64.
	www.richard.damon.name /genealogy/p12253.htm (241 words)

	Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
		The county of Nassau was divided in 1255 ("prima divisio") by Walram and Otto, sons of Count Henry II the Rich.
		This small state was far from Germany, a fief of Burgundy, surrounded by the Papal enclave of Avignon, whose Princes recently derived from the Free Counts of Burgundy.
		Hesse turns up, curiously, in the history of the American Revolution, since Hessian troups were hired out to King George III and sent to fight against the colonists.
	www.friesian.com /germany.htm (9830 words)

	Electorate of Hesse-Cassel 1815-1866 (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The line of Hesse-Darmstadt however died out with prince Louis V of Hesse and of the Rhine on 30th May 1968.
		Similarly to the [federal] state of Hesse, they use the lion without the sword [or the crown].
		The landgraves of the Hesse-Kassel branch flew the same flag [as the Hesse-Darmstadt royal family] with just the shield, but with a golden border and the lion doing without the sword.
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	Evangelical Church in Germany : Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutchland) is the institutional form chosen by a community of 24 Lutheran, Reformed and United regional churches.
		The Evangelical Church of the Hesse Electorate and Waldeck
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Evangelical Church in Germany : Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau.
	www.eurofreehost.com /ev/Evangelical_Church_of_Hesse_and_Nassau.html (296 words)

	Nassau (ducado) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nassau era un estado alemán dentro del imperio romano santo.
		El castillo de Nassau fue construido en 1125, y puesto que 1160 el condado fueron nombrados después del castillo.
		Durante los siglos próximos que varios estados nombraron Nassau emergió.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/na/Nassau%20%28ducado%29.htm (136 words)

	Hesse-Nassau -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1929, the Republic of (Click link for more info and facts about Waldeck) Waldeck became a part of Hesse-Nassau.
		In 1944, Hesse-Nassau was split into the provinces of Electoral Hesse (German Kurhessen) with Kassel as its capital and Nassau with (A city in western Germany; a spa since Roman times) Wiesbaden as its capital.
		Parts of Nassau were moved to the State of (Click link for more info and facts about Rhineland-Palatinate) Rhineland-Palatinate.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hesse-nassau1.htm (108 words)

	De kinderen van Koning Willem III van Oranje-Nassau, Groothertog van Luxemburg
		In 1255 verdeelde de broers Walram van Nassau en Otto van Nassau het Graafschap Nassau, zo onstonden er 2 linies: De Walramse Linie en de Ottoonse Linie.
		Koning Willem III (Ottoonse Linie) overleed in 1890 en in 1912 stierf met de dood van Groothertog Willem IV van Luxemburg ook de Walramse linie in de mannelijke lijn uit.
		Sinds 1987 is Nassau de officieële naam van de Luxemburgse dynastie.
	members.home.nl /pushkar/oranje3_3.html (2643 words)

	German Town Origins - Hesse
		DISTRICTS of DARMSTADT, HESSE-DARMSTADT, HESSE-KASSEL, NASSAU, WALDEK, & WEILBOURG
		This map below shows the boundaries of the Hesse region of Germany about 1800.
		If any of the boxes are in pink, then the FAMILY NAME does not appear on the map.
	www.seawhy.com /gerhesse.html (87 words)

	BATTENBERG - Online Information article about BATTENBERG
		duke of Hesse, contracted a morganatic See also:
		UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)
		VICTORIA (or VITTORIA), TOMMASSO LUDOVICO DA (C. Victoria, daughter of Louis IV., grand-duke of Hesse, and became an See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BATTENBERG.html (463 words)

	Nassau, former duchy, Germany
		Nassau, former duchy, W central Germany, situated N and E of the Main and Rhine rivers.
		In 1806, Nassau, which had received some territorial additions, joined the
		Duke Adolf of Nassau, however, succeeded in 1890 to the grand duchy of
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0834902.html (393 words)

	Alster family from Waldeck, Hesse, Nassau, Germany to NY City Area
		Alster family from Waldeck, Hesse, Nassau, Germany to NY City Area
		The Alster family was listed as being from the Waldeck, Hesse, Nassau section of Germany and Reinhard was listed as being a butcher.
		Re: Alster family from Waldeck, Hesse, Nassau, Germany to NY City Area Jim Dietz 6/12/02
	genforum.com /alster/messages/1.html (259 words)

	Hermann Ii "der Hesse / Countess Of Nassau Johanne
		Note Born: Abt 1344 at Of, Marburg, Hessen Nassau, Prussia
		Other Spouses: Burgravine Of Nurnberg Margarethe Father: Ludwig Of Hesse Hesse Mother: Countess Of Spanheim Elisabeth
		Born: Abt 1354 at Of, Weilburg, Hessen Nassau, Prussia
	www.e-familytree.net /F6/F6826.htm (266 words)

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