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  Lake Constance: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(on the outskirts of the alps and north of the lake of lucerne....
Lake thun (german: thunersee) is a lake in the bernese oberland in switzerland....
Lake brienz (german: brienzersee) is a lake in the canton of bern in switzerland....
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 Lindau, Lake Constance - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lindau, Lake Constance
City in Bavaria, Germany, built partly on a small island in Lake Constance, but linked by road and rail to the northeast shore; population (1994) 75,500.
With many buildings from its rich medieval history, Lindau is a tourist resort and a principal port of call for lake traffic.
In 1275 Lindau was made a free city of the Holy Roman Empire and throughout the Middle Ages it was an important merchant town, trading chiefly with Italy.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lindau,+Lake+Constance   (182 words)

  
 LAKE OF CONSTANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LAKE OF CONSTANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the Swabian Sea), the most extensive sheet of water in the Alpine region, after the Lake of Geneva.
Its surface is 1309 ft. above sea-level, the greatest width is 101/2 m., and the greatest depth 827 ft. The area of the lake is 2043/4 sq.
Austria has held Bregenz, at the south-eastern angle of the lake, since 1451, while the north end of the lake belongs to Baden (Constance held since 1805), and bits of its eastern shore form part of Wtirttemberg (Friedrichshafen, formerly called,Buchhorn, since 1810) and of Bavaria (Lindau since 1805).
www.1911ency.org /C/CO/CONSTANCE_LAKE_OF.htm   (252 words)

  
 Lake Constance Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The level of the lake is at 395 m above sea level.
The Lake Constance had been formed by the Rhine Glacier during the Ice Ages.
The Rhine, the Bregenzer Ache and the Dornbirner Ache transport a lot of sediments from the Alps to the Lake, thus minimizing the size of the lake from the southeast.
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 CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF - Online Information article about CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF
CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the " Swabian Sea ")
The arrival of the Spaniards at Constance necessitating the formation of a fifth nation, Pierre d'Ailly availed himself of the opportunity to ask either that the English nation might be merged in the German, or that each great nation might be allowed to See also:
CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brig...
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Constance
In the meantime the treachery and violence of Ladislaus of Naples made John XXIII quite dependent politically on the new Emperor-elect Sigismund whose anxiety for a general council on German territory was finally satisfied by the pope, then an exile from Rome.
It is to be noted that of the twelve cardinals present at Constance only seven or eight assisted at the fifth session, and they solely to avoid scandal (among the absent was d'Ailly).
From an ecclesiastical point of view, the Council of Constance may truly be said to close the medieval and to open the modern period.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04288a.htm   (5002 words)

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