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	Lippe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lippe is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
		In 1528 it became a county, in 1789 it was elevated to a principality.
		The main river is the Werre, and at the northern border of the district the Weser.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lippe (442 words)

	Lippe River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Lippe is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
		Due to industrial effluents and straightenings of the river's course the Lippe was in an ecological disastrous condition.
		The territory of Lippe is named after the river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lippe_River (153 words)

	LIPPE (RIVER) - LoveToKnow Article on LIPPE (RIVER) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LIPPE, a river of Germany, a right-bank tributary of the Rhine.
		LIPPE, a principality of Germany and Constituent state of the German empire, bounded N.W., W. and S. by the Prussian province of Westphalia and N.E. and E. by the Prussian provinces of Hanover and Hesse-Nassau and the principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
		The chief rivers are the Weser, which crosses the north extremity of the principality, and its affluents, the Werre, Exter, Kalle and Emmer.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LIPPE_RIVER_.htm (1313 words)

	LIPPE (STATE) - LoveToKnow Article on LIPPE (STATE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In order to adjust matters the Lippe government moved the Bundesrat, on the 5th of July 1895, to pass an imperial law declaring the Reichsgericht (the supreme tribunal of the empire) a competent court to adjudicate upon the claims of the rival lines to the succession.
		By clause 2 of this compact, a court of arbitration was to be appointed, consisting of the king of Saxony and six members selected by him from among the members of the supreme court of law of the empire.
		This court was duly constituted, and on the 22nd of June 1897 delivered judgment to the effect that Count Ernest of Lippe-Biesterfeld, head of the line of LippeBiesterfeld, was entitled to succeed to the throne of Lippe on the death of Prince Alexander.
	www.1911ency.org /L/LI/LIPPE_STATE_.htm (2286 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.
	www.genealogienetz.de /reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe.html (1604 words)

	Lippe - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1528 it became a dukedom, in 1789 it was elevated to a principality.
		The last prince of Lippe had to resign in 1918 after the end of World War I when Germany became republic, his country became a Freistaat in the German republic.
		You can find it there under the keyword Lippe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippe)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lippeandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lippe (481 words)

	Lippe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Lippe lands lie north and south of the east–west bend of the middle Weser River and extend southwestward to the Teutoburg Forest.
		The medieval lords of Lippe had their original possessions around Lippstadt on the Lippe River, west of Paderborn.
		Simon V of Lippe (died 1536) assumed the title of count in 1528.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/Lippe/Lippe.html (273 words)

	Ruhr River - Britannica Concise
		The river was militarily important in World War I, and the river valley was occupied from 1923 to 1925 by France and Belgium (see Ruhr occupation).
		The river, an important tributary of the lower Rhine, rises on the north side of Winterberg and flows 146 mi (235 km) west past Witten (the head of navigation), Essen, and Mülheim to enter the Rhine at Duisburg.
		Lippe River - river, a right-bank tributary of the Rhine, that flows through North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state) in Germany.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9377294 (585 words)

	Wesel Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is bounded on the west by about thirty miles of the Rhine, on the south by the Lippe River and on the east by Westphalia.
		Because it is a plateau, mountains to the east and the west separate Washington County from its neighboring Maryland counties.
		The Potomac River is the southern border with the states of West Virginia and Yirginia on the other side of the river.
	www.wc-link.org /hag/html/wesel_facts.html (318 words)

	Hans Engelbrecht's Homepage -... the cities of Lippe ...-
		The present Kreis Lippe within administrative district of Detmold in Northrhine-Westphalia is almost identical with the territory of the former Principality of Lippe.
		The highest hill in Lippe is the "Koeterberg" with a height of almost 500 m.
		They had their residence at the Lippe river and founded the town of Lippe in 1168/85 that is called Lippstadt today.
	hans.engelbrecht.com /cities.htm (699 words)

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		River which has its spring on the edge of the Teutoburger Forest and flows into the Rhine westwards.
		The intelligent politics of the Duke of Lippe had the consequence that Lippe stayed independent under Napoleon in contrast to other Dukedoms like Hessen, survived the Vienna Congress without damages, was not swallowed by Prussia (in contrast to i.e.
		Clever negotiations lead to the fact that Lippe became a part of the German federal state NRW(Northrhine-Westfalia, Nordrhein-Westfalen), the seal of which is equipped with the symbol of Lippe - the red rose.
	www.hseidensticker.de /Lippe.htm (597 words)

	Hamm
		It is located on the Lippe River, northeast of the Ruhr area.
		The town was founded in 1226 by count Adolf I of Mark.
		This name may have been given due to the location of Hamm in the corner of the Lippe river and the narrow Ahse affluent.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hamm.html (163 words)

	Homepage Carsten Subbe - Canoeing on the Weser River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Weser river begins by the confluence of the Werra river and Fulda river in Hannoversch Münden.
		Charming on that part of the river is that there is no single barrier where you have to portage your canoe.
		Along the river there are a lot of campgrounds which are easy reachable from the river.
	home.arcor.de /casu/weser2005_en.html (610 words)

	Haltern
		In Antiquity, river transport was a lot cheaper and easier than transport by road, and therefore, the presence of a river was necessary for an important settlement that was to be used by thousands of soldiers.
		This coin is, therefore, simply not supposed to be in Haltern, unless we accept that it was brought from Hispania to the Lippe valley by a soldier serving in one of the Spanish legions that was transferred to the Rhine: I Germanica and V Alaudae.
		That the Romans believed that the country along the river Lippe was a safe possession of their empire, is suggested by the fact that they built tombs in this area.
	www.livius.org /ha-hd/haltern/haltern.html (1508 words)

	www.lippstadt.de \| discovering & experiencing \| Across The Meadows Of The Lippe From Jahnplatz To Hellinghausen
		A path and a cycling track follow the River Lippe along its banks from Jahnplatz in the south of Lippstadt in the direction of Hellinghausen.
		When the Lippe began to be used more intensively as a water route, bends in the river were cut off as part of work carried out to straighten the river bed.
		Once in Hellinghausen, the way then continues over the River Gieseler to the little forest of "Sötling" where the golden oriole is always happy to whistle every tune of his melodic repertoire to almost everyone who goes by.
	www.lippstadt.de /english/discovering/countryside/lippeaue.htm (663 words)

	House Laws of Schaumburg-Lippe
		The house of Lippe avodied partitions until 1344, when the brothers Otto I and Bernhard V split their inheritance; Rheda, which went to Bernhard V, was claimed at the latter's death without sons (1365) and seized by Bernhard's son-in-law the count Otto von Tecklenburg, and Rheda was lost to the Lippe family.
		Otto's son Simon III inherited the county of Sternberg, and instituted in 1366 a pactum unionis with the city of Lippstadt and its burghers, extended in 1368 into a pactum unionis with all inhabitants of his lands, ensuring that in case of multiple heirs they would owe their allegiance to whoever inherited Lippstadt and Lemgo.
		The panel noted that archival documents in Lippe showed that the opposition stemmed from the character of the bride rather than her status, and the fact that the declaration put him at risk of losing his rights, which he could not have lost by contracting an unequal marriage, shows that equality was not the issue.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/royalty/HGLippe.htm (7996 words)

	Homepage Carsten Subbe - Canoeing on the Lippe River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Lippe River starts in Bad Lippspringe and ends after 213km close to Wesel at the Rhine River.
		The river runs at the north of the Ruhr industrial area but you do not feel it on the river.
		A good map for this river is the Lippe canoe map from Jübermann.
	home.arcor.de /casu/lippe_en.html (822 words)

	Lippstadt -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It lies along the Lippe River, on the slopes of the Teutoburger Wald.
		Lippstadt was probably founded by the lords of Lippe in 1168, and it joined the Hanseatic League in 1280.
		Half of the town passed to the county of Mark, which in 1614 was acquired by Brandenburg.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048457?tocId=9048457 (348 words)

	Ruhr
		The Ruhr lies along, and north of, the Ruhr River (145 mi/233 km long), which rises in the hills of central Germany and flows generally west to the Rhine River at Duisburg.
		Extensive coal deposits, especially the high quality coking coal required in steel manufacturing, underlie the region in basins that are near the surface along the Ruhr River (where the oldest mines and steel plants are located), and at greater depths to the north along the Lippe River (where most of the modern mines are found).
		Lippe, river, Germany - Lippe, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Teutoburg Forest, W Germany and flowing...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0842650.html (507 words)

	World War II - Part II of the 92nd Artillery Unit History
		Late in the afternoon positions were reconnoitered across the Wurm River in the vicinity of Zweibruggen and "C" Battery immediately displaced.
		The Battalion area was shelled at frequently throughout the period, causing some vehicular damage and personnel casualties On 14 February 1945, the Battalion lost its' first M-7 since landing in Europe (9 June 1944) when an enemy shell caused one to burn and the ammunition inside to burn and explode.
		The Lippe River and the Dortnund-Ems Canal were quickly crossed and the 92d reached the Elbe on 12 April 1945.
	www.bravecannons.org /History/hst1_ww2_2.html (1731 words)

	Combat Chronicle- 95th Infantry Division
		The Division went into the line, 19 October, in the Moselle River bridgehead sector east of Moselle and South of Metz and patrolled the Seille River near Cheminot, repulsing enemy attempts to cross the river.
		Suburbs of the city fell and, although the enemy resisted fiercely, the Saar bridgehead was firmly established by 19 December.
		Assembling east of the Rhine at Beckum, 3 April, it launched an attack across the Lippe River, 4 April, and captured Hamm and Kamen on the 6th.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/lineage/cc/095id.htm (551 words)

	ipedia.com: Westphalia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Westphalia is roughly the region between the rivers Rhine and Weser, located north of the Ruhr river.
		The present state of North Rhine-Westphalia is composed of the former Prussian province of Westphalia, the northern half of the former Prussian Rhine province, and the former state of Lippe.
		Westphalia is known for the 1648 Peace of Westphalia (in fact the two treaties of Münster and Osnabrück), which ended the Thirty Years' War.
	www.ipedia.com /westphalia.html (348 words)

	Pfister Waagen Bilanciai GmbH
		The restoration of the Lippe river's ecological system is a Lippstadt environmental department project.
		The aim is to separate the course of the Lippe from the Sander Lippe lake and to restructure it naturally.
		Within this substitute water meadow it is intended that the waters of the Lippe should flow again and thus close the gap in the river's ecological system.
	www.pfisterwaagen.de /pwb/e/news/awb_lippesee.htm (647 words)

	Central Europe
		The main thrust beyond the river was to be made in the north by Montgomery's 21 Army Group, elements of which were to proceed east to a juncture with the First Army as it made a secondary advance northeast from below the Ruhr River.
		The choice was obvious because the Main River, flowing northward 30 miles east of and parallel to the Rhine, turns west and empties into the Rhine at Mainz and an advance south of the city would involve crossing two rivers rather than one.
		Also on 28 March, elements of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division, operating north of the Lippe River in conjunction with British armored forces, dashed to a point some 30 miles east of Wesel, opening a corridor for the XIX Corps and handily outflanking Dorsten and the enemy to the south.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/centeur/centeur.htm (8854 words)

	LIPPSTADT - LoveToKnow Article on LIPPSTADT
		, a town in the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the river Lippe, 20 m.
		Lippstadt was founded in 1168 by the lords of Lippe, the rights over one half of the town passing subsequently by purchase to the counts of the Mark, which in 1614 was incorporated with Brandenburg.
		In 1850 the prince of Lippe-Detmold sold his share to Prussia when this joint lordship ceased.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LIPPSTADT.htm (160 words)

	Publikationsliste der Arbeitsgruppe DIOXIN - Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this study during October 1989 to April 1990 more than 250 surface water samples of the Western German rivers Rhine (78 samples), Main (22), Lippe (54), Ruhr (60), Wupper (36) and from the river Saale (4) on the territory of the German Democratic Republic were taken.
		Thereby the contents of vinyl chloride varied between lower 0.4 ng/l to 400 ng/l in the Western German rivers, while the higher levels found in the river Lippe were caused by wastewater influents from VC/PVC-production plants.
		Illustrating longitudinal profiles of the river Lippe are given for the substances vinyl chloride, tri- and tetrachloroethene.
	www.hygiene.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /hygiene/dioxin/publikationsliste_abstract.cfm?LN=2 (273 words)

	Battle of Vellinghausen - Seven Years War
		In early July 1761 the two French armies of Prince Soubise and the Duc de Broglie united with the aim of forcing Ferdinand’ army to cross the River Lippe and abandon the important town of Lippstadt.
		Ferdinand took up positions to the south of the River Lippe while the two French commanders approached him and prepared to attack.
		The agreement between them was that Broglie would attack the allied forces that lay between the Ahse and the Lippe Rivers, while Soubise moved against Ferdinand’s troops on the French left, behind Werle, and envelope their unsecured right wing.
	www.britishbattles.com /seven-years/vellinghausen.htm (1194 words)

	Antique Maps of Germany (page 7) - Alte Landkarten von Deutschland (Seite 7)
		In the Upper left is the mouth of the Elbe River.
		In the upper left is the confluence of the Weser and Lippe Rivers.
		The course of the Rhine river is the central theme of this map.
	www.philographikon.com /mapsgermany7.html (1047 words)

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