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	Hanover (state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was an independent kingdom from 1814 to 1866 and a province of Prussia from 1866 to 1946.
		Hanover gained the Bishopric of Hildesheim, East Frisia, the Lower County of Lingen, and the northern part of the Bishopric of Münster.
		In the Prussian-Austrian War of 1866, Hanover was annexed by Prussia and became a province (38,511 km², 3.5 million inhabitants in 1939).
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	State of Hanover 1945-1946 (Germany)
		The colours of the province were yellow-white, which means that the flag of the province was certainly yellow over white horizontally, exactly like the flag adopted for the Prussian province of Hanover in 1882.
		The coat of arms of the former province and Land of Hanover was Gules a horse Argent.
		Hinrich Kopf was Regierungspräsident and Oberpräsident of Hanover 1945-1946, and Ministerpräsident 1946-1955 of Lower Saxony.
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	EMDEN - LoveToKnow Article on EMDEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		, a maritime town of Germany, in the Prussian,province of Hanover, near the mouth of the Ems, 49 m.
		Jn 1595 Emden became a free imperial city under the protection of Holland, and was occupied by a Dutch garrison until 1744 when, with East Friesland, it was transferred to Prussia.
		In 1810 Emden became the chief town of the French department of Ems Oriental; in 1815 it was assigned to Hanover, and in 1866 was annexed with that kingdom by Prussia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EM/EMDEN.htm (618 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hanover, city, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hanover was chartered in 1241 and in 1369 passed to Brunswick.
		Hanover was badly damaged in World War II, but after 1945 numerous old buildings were reconstructed and many modern structures were erected.
		Hanover is the seat of technical, medical, and veterinary universities and several museums.
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	Hanover Centennial, 1869-1969
		Gerat Henry Hollenberg was born in the province of Hanover, Germany, Dec. 19, 1823, son of a farmer, Rudolph Hollenberg.
		Hanover township is one of the oldest townships in Washington County.
		Hollenberg was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, on December 19, 1823.
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	Hanover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hanover grew out of the early 17th-century division of territories of the Welf house of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
		Hanover was expanded to the North Sea by the addition of Bremen and Verden in 1715 and the bishopric of Osnabrück in 1803.
		Hanover was briefly reestablished as a state in August 1946, but on November 1 of that year it was united with Oldenburg, Brunswick, and Schaumburg-Lippe to form the Land (state) of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).
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	Hanover, house of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		HANOVER, HOUSE OF [Hanover, house of] ruling dynasty of Hanover (see Hanover, province), which was descended from the Guelphs and which in 1714 acceded to the British throne in the person of George I.
		George was the grandson of James I's daughter Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, and the son of Sophia, electress of Hanover, and his succession to the throne was based on the Act of Settlement (1701).
		Melanie Litton, of Manassas, Virginia, is the Vampyre Monk in the House of the Vampyres in Hanover, Maryland.
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	Historical Flags (Hanover, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hanover is not a Land of the Federal Republic of Germany anymore.
		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.
		Ernst August I, who succeeded to the throne of Hanover in 1837 at the death of William IV (of Great Britain and Hanover), was the Duke of Cumberland and his successors through Ernst August II continued using the title.
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	Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: Denominations: Catholicism: Reference: Catholic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hakodate - Comprises the six northern provinces of the island of Nippon, the island of Yezo, and the Kurile Islands, as well as the administration of the southern part of the island of Saghalin, which still belongs to the Diocese of Mohilev.
		Hierapolis - Titular Archdiocese, metropolis of the Province of Euphrates, in the Patriarchate of Antioch.
		Huesca - Diocese embracing parts of the province of Huesca in north-eastern Spain, seven parishes in the Broto valley and three within the limits of the Archdiocese of Saragossa, one parish being situated in the city of Saragossa itself.
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	LUNEBURG - LoveToKnow Article on LUNEBURG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, situated near the foot of a small hill named the Kalkberg, on the navigable Ilmenau, 14 m.
		Numerous handsome medieval buildings testify to its former prosperity as a prominent member of the Hanseatic league, and its many quaint houses with high gables and overhanging eaves have gained f or it the appellation the Nuremberg of the North.
		In 1813 the German war of liberation was begun by an engagement with the French near LUneburg.
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	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 107, PRUSSIA: Library of Economics and Liberty
		In each of the eight provinces then existing, a diet was established, made up of the lords on whom the king had conferred an individual (viril) vote, of the deputies of the great landed proprietors or of the possessors of equestrian property, of the deputies of the cities, and of the deputies of the country.
		It was established, in 1873, in the provinces of Brandenburg, Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Saxony and Posen.
		In such cases, the province had to furnish all that it could in men, in horses, in provisions, while the others were freed from all payments, and scarcely perceived the agitation which reigned among their fellow-citizens.
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	AllRefer.com - Hanover, former kingdom and province, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		At the accession (1837) of Queen Victoria in England, Hanover was separated from the British crown because of the Salic law of succession.
		Ernest Augustus, son of George III, became king of Hanover and began his reign by rescinding the liberal Hanoverian constitution of 1833, thus evoking the well-known protest of the seven professors at GOttingen; the Revolution of 1848 forced him to grant a liberal constitution.
		George V refused to support Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and, as a consequence, lost his kingdom, which was made a Prussian (from 1871 a German) province.
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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - GÖTTINGEN: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		City in the province of Hanover, Germany; formerly capital of the principality of Grubenhagen under the dominion of the Guelfic dukes.
		Jews settled in Göttingen in the thirteenth century, as is shown by a document dated March 1, 1289, by which Dukes Albrecht and Wilhelm permitted the council of the city to receive the Jew Moses and his legal heirs and grant them the rights of citizenship.
		, in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Halberstadt, Hamburg, Altona, Hildesheim, and Hanover.
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	Electorate (1692-1814) and Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866) (Germany)
		Hanover became the ninth electorate of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692.
		The colours of the [Prussian] province adopted in 1887 were the same as the ones of the former kingdom: yellow over white.
		The coat of arms of the Prussian province 1866-1945 and later Land 1945-1946 was Gules a horse Argent.
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	Cahier 3
		A new subdivision shall be made of the provinces of the realm; provincial estates shall be established, members of which, not excepting their presidents, shall be elected.
		Their powers shall be limited to the interior administration of the provinces, under the supervision of His Majesty, who shall communicate to them the national laws which have received the consent of the States General and the royal sanction: to which laws all the provincial estates shall be obliged to submit without reservation.
		We solicit the establishment of public graneries in the provinces, under the control of the provincial estates, in order that by accmnulating reserves during years of plenty, famine and excessive dearness of grain, such as we have experienced in the past may be prevented.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/cahiers3.html (3813 words)

	MattHistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The son of Ernest Augustus succeeded to the throne of Hanover in 1851 as George V.
		Hanover was divided into districts and each district regardless of population was required to provide a battalion of 600 men for the Landwehr.
		This was not the Landwehr of the province of Hanover in which his father had served but the army of Prussia, a great military power.
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	Kingdom of Hanover
		In the times of both, the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover until 1837, mostly a red flag with the white, wide-jumping horse (Horse of Saxons) over green ground was displayed.
		After Hanover's annexion by the Prussians, there was no flag for the Prussian Province of Hanover for the first years.
		The first Premierminister of the State of Hanover, Mr Hinrich-Wilhelm Kopf introduced the new flag of the State of Hanover during the first session the state's parliament.
	www.koenigreich-hannover.de /uklandesfahne.html (667 words)

	Hanover - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A former kingdom and province of northwest Germany.
		The kingdom lasted from 1815 to 1866, when Hanover became a province of Prussia (later Germany).
		Hanover was badly damaged during World War II but has been extensively rebuilt.
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	George I, King of Great Britain
		George I was born March 28, 1660, son of Ernest, Elector of Hanover and Sophia, granddaughter of James I. He was raised in the royal court of Hanover, a German province, and married Sophia, Princess of Zelle, in 1682.
		George, Elector of Hanover since 1698, ascended the throne upon the death of Queen Anne, under the terms of the 1701 Act of Settlement.
		He realized his position and considered the better of two evils to be the Whigs (the other alternative was the Catholic son of James II by Mary of Modena, James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender).
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	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		The pale little 54 year-old man arrived in Greenwich on September 29, 1714, with a full retinue of German friends, advisors and servants (two of which, Mohamet and Mustapha, were Negroes captured during a Turkish campaign).
		George I, on his many trips to Hanover, never placed the leadership of government in his son's hands, preferring to rely on his ministers when he was abroad.
		This disdain between father and son was a blight which became a tradition in the House of Hanover.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lower Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The middle of the state houses the largest cities and the economic centres: Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolfsburg, Salzgitter and Braunschweig.
		Originally the region was simply called Saxony, but as the center of gravity of the Duchy of Saxony gradually moved up the Elbe, towards the present-day states of Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, the region was given the name of Lower Saxony, which it bore as an Imperial Circle Estate from the late 15th century on.
		The state was founded in 1946 by the British military administration, who merged the former states of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Oldenburg, and Schaumburg-Lippe with the former Prussian province of Hanover.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Lower_Saxony (680 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Osnabrueck
		This diocese, directly subject to the Holy See, comprises, in the Prussian Province of Hanover, the civil districts of Osnabrück and Aurich (excepting Wilhelmshaven) and that part of Hanover situated on the west of the Weser.
		Pius IX, with the consent of King George V of Hanover, appointed Paulus Melchers of Münster, bishop, 3 August, 1857.
		In 1866 the territory of the diocese passed, with Hanover, to Prussia; Melchers became Archbishop of Cologne, and was succeeded in 1866 by Johannes Heinrich Beckmann (1866-78), who was succeeded by Bernard Höting (1882-98) after a vacancy of four years owing to the Kulturkampf.
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	Niedersachsen.html
		Ernst August of Hanover was a decisive personality for the further development of the region.
		In 1692, he was made elector, and he married a granddaughter of the British king James I. In 1714, their son became king of England as George I, and thus a personal union between England and Hanover was called into life which was to last until 1837.
		On the initiative of the British occupying forces in 1946, the former Prussian province of Hanover was merged with Brunswick, Oldenburg, and Schaumburg-Lippe to form the state of Lower Saxony.
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	coordese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EIELT J. COORDES is a native of the province of Hanover, Germany and comes from the stanch blood whence has sprung some of the most noted men of the world.
		Eielt J. Coordes was born on March 10, 1854, the son of John E. and Wubike O. (Agena) Coordes, natives of the province of Hanover Germany.
		Coordes was born in the province of Hanover, on November 15, 1856.
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	Caspar Schlatman - Goodspeed
		Caspar Schlatman was born on January 28, 1826, in the Province of Hanover, Germany.
		Herman Schlatman was born in Hanover in 1776, and in 1856 immigrated to the United States, after which he resided with his son, Caspar, until his death, in 1862.
		In January 1854, he was united in marriage with Anna Schwenne, also a native of the Province of Hanover.
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	Hanover (region) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hanover (German Hannover) was a Regierungsbezirk of the Province of Hanover and of Lower Saxony, Germany, that existed from 1885 until 2004.
		It was located in the south of the state around the City of Hanover, its capital.
		This page was last modified 14:21, 30 September 2005.
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