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  Grand Duchy Of Baden - LoveToKnow 1911
The Baden contingent continued to assist France, and by the peace of Vienna in 1809 the grandduke was rewarded with accessions of territory at the expense of the kingdom of Wurttemberg.
In 1815 Baden became a member of the Germanic confederation established by the Act of the 8th of June, annexed to the Final Act of the congress of Vienna of the 9th of June.
The troops of Baden took a conspicuous share in the war of 1870; and it was the grand-duke of Baden, who, in the historic assembly of the German princes at Versailles, was the first to hail the king "of Prussia as German emperor.
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 Baden
Ecclesiastically the territory of the present Baden was divided into six dioceses: Constance, Speyer, Strasburg, Worms, Mainz, and Wurzburg; moreover the Bishops of Bamberg were wealthy landed proprietors Henry II having bestowed on them Crown-lands in the Ortenau, as well as placing the abbeys of Ettenheimmunster, Gengenbach, and Schuttern under their jurisdiction.
By the Peace of Pressburg (1805), and the accession of Baden to the Confederation of the Rhine (1806), Baden was still further enlarged by the former possessions of Austria in the Breisgau, the city of Constance, and other territories, whereby substantially the present boundaries were established.
In Baden, by the order of the Grand duke, the candidate for the archiepiscopal see was elected by free vote of the assembled deans (1822), but their choice of Wanker, a professor of theology in Freiburg, was condemned by the pope as canonically invalid.
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 Baden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baden is a historical state in the southwest of Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine.
Baden as it stood from 1806 to 1945.
The educational institutions of Baden are numerous and flourishing, and public education is entirely in the hands of the government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baden   (1892 words)

  
 BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF - Online Information article about BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF
Religion.--The educational establishments of Baden are numerous and flourishing, and public education is entirely in the hands of.
Reformation some of the rulers of Baden adhered to the older and some adopted the newer faith, and the house, was similarly divided during the See also:
But in 1813 Baden joined the coalition, and since then that nation created of odds and ends (de brit et de brat) and always handsomely treated by us, had not ceased to take a leading part in the struggles against our country.
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 Baden
There is a greater likelihood that someone who "emigrated from Baden" came from a particular town or village situated WITHIN the borders of Baden, the STATE---not from the town of Baden-Baden.
Baden later sided with Austria (against the German kingdom of Prussia, Baden's ally) in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), but nevertheless joined the newly-unified German Empire in 1871.
This Baden was the capital (1798—1803) of Baden canton under the Helvetic Republic.
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 WUrttemberg Baden: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Baden in the present state of Baden-Wurttemberg was a separate state before...organization was intended to serve Baden, Wurttemberg, and Hesse.
...elevated his allies, the rulers of Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Saxony, to the rank of King, and the rulers of Baden and HesseDarmstadt to that of Grand...to the Houses of Bavaria (twice), Baden, Wurttemberg, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Salm-Salm...
25th-26th...as the Bavarian Palatinate, Baden and Saxony in favour of the...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/wurttemberg_baden.jsp   (1376 words)

  
 List of rulers of Baden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baden was a state in the southwest of Germany, primarily consisting of territory along the right bank of the Rhine opposite Alsace and the Palatinate.
For most of the early modern period, the Baden lands were divided into two parts, one ruled by the Catholic Margraves of Baden-Baden, and the other by the Protestant Margraves of Baden-Durlach.
In the imperial reorganization of 1803, Baden gained a great deal of additional territory, and its rulers were made Electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Baden   (302 words)

  
 Bavaria History
Despite the vast expansion of the Carolingian dynasty by Charlemagne, the region was segmented in 911 and found itself at the centre of a tug-of-war between various rulers for the coming centuries.
Baden was split into 2 halves, occupied by the French in the south and the Americans gained the more northern areas of Württemberg.
In 1952 both Baden and Württemberg were united as one and the state remains the fastest-developing post-war areas of Germany.
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 Lichtenau
However, the town was repeatedly the source of feuds between local rulers because of its location on the main trading route between Frankfurt and Strasbourg, and the nearby Rhine crossing.
This was probably Lichtenau's most significant period in history as the town was the seat of secular and ecclesiastical authority in the county and its classical secondary school was known throughout Europe.
Step by step, peace and prosperity came to the town with one notable exception; Prussian troops were dispatched to the area in 1848/49 to put down the Baden Uprising.
www.harbournet.com /baden/history/lichtenau.htm   (593 words)

  
 Titles of European hereditary rulers
According to the inheritance traditions of the Rurikids and the Gediminids, the dynasties that ruled in Russia and Lithuania in the 10th-16th centuries, territories of a late prince were divided by his close male relatives.
Originally, it was meant to denote the ruler of Austria, in an effort to put that ruler on par with the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1870, all the German rulers but the Emperor of Austria, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the Prince of Liechtenstein, recognized the King of Prussia as the German Emperor.
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 Revolution and Counter-Revolution-Ch 18
In the Palatinate and Baden, on the contrary, a rich, fruitful province and an entire state fell into the hands of the insurrection.
The petty bourgeois rulers, particularly of Baden—Herr Brentano at the head of them—never forgot that by usurping the place and prerogatives of the "lawful" sovereign, the Grand Duke, they were committing high treason.
And they succeeded, thanks to the zealous support of that deep class of politicians, the "Democratic" heroes of the petty bourgeoisie, who actually thought they were "saving the country," while they allowed themselves to be led by their noses by a few men of a sharper cast, such as Brentano.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1852/germany/ch18.htm   (1111 words)

  
 County and Municipal Flags (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Some counties also have the blue-white lozenges of the Wittelsbachs, the rulers of Bavaria and the Palatinate.
The areas were lost to France, Baden and Württemberg after the French invasion under Napoleon.
Other important symbols in the county arms include the archdiocese of Mainz (white wheel in a red field) and the imperial eagle (fl on golden field) for the many imperial cities in the area.
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 Emmendingen County (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The arms are a combination of the arms of Baden, the Lords of Schwarzenberg and the Lords of Üsenberg.
The major part of the present county was owned by the Lords of Baden from the 14th century.
Both the latter areas became Austrian in the early Middle Ages, but the arms of the original rulers were used instead of the Austrian arms (the wing and the Austrian arms are part of the arms of the latter three towns).
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 Wenk Family
The Margraviate of Baden (Markgrafschaft Baden) was established on April 27, 1112.
Baden grew by 1810 to 15,000 square kilometers with a population of almost one million.
The revolution in Baden was repressed, and the Grand duke reestablished his authority—but now he ruled a wasteland.
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 First World War.com - Primary Documents - Karl Liebknecht's Call for Revolution, 1 November 1918
For more than four years our rulers have been engaged in a robber war for the oppression of our neighbours.
During the last ten or twelve years these same rulers have preached the bad doctrine of "Slavic danger." They sowed in our hearts fear of the Slays.
You were driven by your rulers into the world slaughter.
www.firstworldwar.com /source/germancollapse_liebknecht.htm   (873 words)

  
 The Palatinate of Padun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Instead the rulers traveled throughout the realm and saw to it personally that peace and order were preserved.
It was for this purpose that palatinates were set up where an administrator amassed supplies all year long so he would be able to feed the ruler and his retinue for the few weeks they were in Baden.
The naming of Padun is important for all of Austria, because the next palatinates were Karnburg (today the Austrian province of Carinithia) and Enns (on the border between the present-day provinces of Lower Austria and Upper Austria).
www.baden-bei-wien.at /pages/english/geschichte/padum.shtml   (269 words)

  
 Baden information information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Baden is a historical state in the southwest of Germany.
In 1952 Baden was merged with Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern (southern Württemberg and the former Prussian exclave of Hohenzollern) to form Baden-Württemberg.
The supreme courts lay in Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Offenburg, Heidelberg, Mosbach, Waldshut, Constance, and Mannheim, whence appeals passed to the Reichsgericht (the supreme tribunal) in Leipzig.
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 Pretenders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Regnal Chronologies website is a compilation of rulers who actually governed the states listed, or, at least were officially the Heads of Government, albeit under a regency or combatting opposition from a rebel.
She was the effective ruler of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden until her death in 1412.
By the succession laws in place at the time, his putative Norwegian heir would have been a nephew, Eric of Pomerania-Stolp who was, as it happens, the same Eric who Margaret had made her heir...
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 Units, traceability, and calibration of optical instruments - HP - Company Business and Marketing Hewlett-Packard ...
Some of the units used today still reflect these rulers, such as feet, miles (in Latin, mile passuum = 1000 double steps), cubits (the length of the forearm), or seconds (the time between two heartbeats is about one second).
The county of Baden had 112 different cubits at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the city of Frankfurt had 14 different mass units.[2] In some cities the old axiomatic ruler was mounted at the city hall near the marketplace and can still be visited today.
Mass was defined by the international kilogram artifact which was intended to have the mass of one cubic decimeter of pure water at 4 [degrees] C (in fact it was about 0.0028 g too heavy).
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 Encyclopedia
In 1799 France came under the domination of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was the principal member of the ruling Consulate and who was proclaimed Napoleon I, emperor of France, in 1804.
The Napoleonic Wars were a continuation of the wars of the French Revolution, in which the Habsburgs and other dynastic rulers of Europe combined in an effort to overthrow the revolutionary government of France and restore the rule of the French monarchy.
Among the terms of this treaty was the concession by Austria to France of territory in northern Italy and to Bavaria of territory in Austria itself; in addition, Austria recognized the duchies of Württemberg and Baden as kingdoms.
www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=217285   (2636 words)

  
 Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms of dynasties and rulers, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life of the people.
A skeleton for history of rulers, with maps and genealogies, provides a perspective of time and space, and on real individuals whom we know about, that is otherwise hard to obtain.
This is all collapsed in the table above into the category of "Pre-Roman Rulers," but it is, of course, a vast subject, beginning with Egypt and Sumer and continuing right up to the kingdoms of the Hellenistic age.
www.friesian.com /histindx.htm   (3021 words)

  
 Lists of office-holders information information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rulers of the Fon state of Danhome (Agbome) (Dahomey)
Rulers of the Ngoni Dynasty of Jere (Qeko)
Rulers of the Ngoni Dynasty of Maseko (Gomani)
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 Stuttgart, Capital of Baden-Württemberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Once it used to be the seat of the rulers of Württemberg, starting out as a county, getting upgraded to duchy (1496) and later becoming a kingdom (1806), in the process of the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation by Napoleon.
Later on the area was owned by the markgraves of Baden, and got acquired by marriage by the counts of Wirtemberg, which turned it into the center of the state of Württemberg.
Nowadays, Stuttgart is one of the largest cities in Germany, has an international airport, and the Region Stuttgart (the city of Stuttgart and the five surrounding cities) is seat of the HQs of such companies as DaimlerChrysler, Porsche and HP Germany.
www.safaribears.de /content.php?page=SlideshowStuttgart&image=1   (305 words)

  
 The Historical Atlas of Europe Modern 1805   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Margrave of Baden became a Grand duke.
Francis II, Habsburg ruler and Holy Roman Emperor, foresaw that the defunct and loosely organized Holy Roman Empire would not survive the onslaught of French influence and long overdue reform.
The enlarged and elevated rulers of Baden, Wurttemberg and Bavaria joined Napoleon, as did the King of Spain.
home.versatel.nl /gerardvonhebel/1805.htm   (360 words)

  
 Decorations of the Principality of Hohenzollern
The princes were distant cousins of the Hohenzollern branch which had become the rulers of Prussia, and managed to retain certain privileges, including the awarding of the House Order of Hohenzollern.
The German Army's Füsilier-Regiment Fürst Karl Anton von Hohenzollern (Hohenzollernsches) Nr.40 (FüsR40) was raised in the former principalities and the regimental chief was the head of the princely house of Hohenzollern.
In 1914, the regiment was garrisoned in Rastatt in Baden, however, and was assigned with the Infanterie-Regiment Markgraf Ludwig Wilhelm (3.
home.att.net /~david.danner/militaria/hohenzollern.htm   (786 words)

  
 The Historical Atlas of Europe Modern 1803   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The ruling families of these smaller states were allowed to keep their rank and titles, and were still regarded as royalty, but their political role was over.
Princes that supported Bonaparte, like the rulers of Baden and Wurttemberg, saw their dominions increased.
The rulers of Hesse-Cassel, Salzburg, Baden and Wurttemberg were elevated to the position of Elector (Princes choosing the Emperor).
www.home.zonnet.nl /gerardvonhebel/1803.htm   (256 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hermann von Vicari
As archbishop, Vicari endeavoured to release the Church of Baden from the bonds of Josephinism and the principles of Wessenberg, and to defend its rights against the civil Government.
In a violent dispute with the Government over his prohibition of a Requiem Mass for deceased Protestant rulers he was victorious, as also in later contests about the schools.
He founded a seminary for boys out of his private means, established a theological house of studies, and appointed learned and ascetic men of sound religious convictions as professors at the ecclesiastical seminary.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15403a.htm   (338 words)

  
 Gathering Leaves - Brick Walls & Puzzle Pieces
Other sources tell us that her family was of the town of Rattelsdorf in the district of Bamburg and this means that they came from the northern part of Bavaria.
Baden was reunited in 1771 under Charles Frederick, but the region remained a fragmented territory made up of isolated districts along either side of the Rhine River.
In the 1840's emigration from the Duchy of Baden was made illegal and many fled political oppression in the German State by obtaining Alsatian visas from the French authorities across the Rhine River.
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