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	Lippe at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lippe is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
		In 1528 it became a dukedom, in 1789 it was elevated to a principality.
		These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia; in 1949 it was approved by the parliament.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Lippe.html (395 words)

	German Genealogy: Lippe (-Detmold)
		The present Kreis Lippe within the Regierungsbezirk Detmold (administrative district) in Nordrhein-Westfalen is almost identical with the territory of the former Principality of Lippe.
		The highest hill in Lippe is the Köterberg with a height of almost 500 m, that politically belongs to the town of Lügde.
		In 1528, Lippe becomes a Grafschaft (county); in 1720 the Earls (Counts) of Lippe-Detmold were elevated to the status of Reichsfürst (Prince of Empire) and Lippe became a Principality within the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
	www2.genealogy.net /reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe.html (1604 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lippe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The principality originated as an immediate suzerainty of the twelfth century, belonging to the lords of Lippe who, in 1529, were counts of the empire.
		In the German War of 1866 Lippe sided with Prussia and became a part of the North German Confederation, and in 1871 of the German Empire.
		FALKMANN, Beitriäge zur Geschichte des Fürstentums Lippe (Lemgo and Detmold, 1847-1902); SCHWANOLD, Das Fürstentum Lippe, das Land und seine Bewohner (Detmold, 1899); WOKER, Geschichte der norddeutschen Franziskaner-Mission (Freiburg, 1880), 614 sqq., 627 sqq.; GEMMEKE, Geschichte der katholischen Pfarreien in Lippe (Paderborn, 1895); FREISEN, Staat und katholische Kirche in den deutschen Bundesstaaten, I Stuttgart 1906), 1-282.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09276a.htm (1318 words)

	LIPPE - Online Information article about LIPPE
		(1555-'613), is the ancestor of both lines of the princes of Lippe.
		Lippe proper was the patrimony of the eldest son, Simon VII.
		throne of Lippe on the death of Prince Alexander.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LEO_LOB/LIPPE.html (2120 words)

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