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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thuringia
Thuringia was united with the Archdiocese of Mainz.
Thuringia was assigned to the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin.
Thuringia the Catholic Faith was maintained only in the district called Eichsfeld, which was ruled by the Archbishop of Mainz, and to a small degree in the city and vicinity of Erfurt, a result also due to the energetic measures of this archbishop.
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  Thuringia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the country's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), being eleventh in size with an area of 16,200 km² and twelfth most populous with 2.45 million inhabitants.
Thuringia borders on (from the north and clockwise) the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Hesse.
Most of the remaining Thuringia came under the rule of the Wettin dynasty of the nearby Margravate of Meißen, the nucleus of the later duchy and kingdom of Saxony.
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 Thuringia
Thuringia (German Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the country's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 sq.
Thuringia borders on (from the north and clockwise) the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Hesse.
Most of the remaining Thuringia came under the rule of the Wettin dynasty of nearby Meissen, the nucleus of the later duchy and kingdom of Saxony.
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 Thuringia travel guide
Thuringia is a main tourist attraction because of its beautiful Thuringian forest, which stretches from the Werra River in the west to the Saale River in the southeast.
Thuringia has quite a varied history: during the 17th century it was split into more than 20 states and until 1919 it consisted of seven earldoms and one Prussian municipality.
Other tourist destinations are Naumburg and its beautiful cathedral or Erfurt, which is not only the capital city of the Freistaat Thüringen (State of Thuringia) but with nearly 200,000 citizens and an area of approx.
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 Thuringia information - Search.com
Most of the remaining Thuringia came under the rule of the Wettin dynasty of the nearby Margravate of Meißen, the nucleus of the later duchy and kingdom of Saxony.
With the division of the house of Wettin in 1485, Thuringia went to the senior Ernestine branch of the family, which subsequently subdivided the area into a number of smaller states, according to the Saxon tradition of dividing inheritance amongst male heirs.
Within the borders of Thuringia the Catholic Faith was maintained only in the district called Eichsfeld, which was ruled by the Archbishop of Mainz, and to a small degree in the city and vicinity of Erfurt.
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 Thuringia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thuringia extends eastward from the Werra River (a headstream of the Weser) into the country beyond the Saale River as far as the Pleisse and northward from the mountains of the Thuringian Forest and the Franconian Forest to the foothills of the Harz mountains.
With the administrative dissolution of Prussia, an enlarged Thuringia Land was constituted within the German Democratic Republic, with rationalized frontiers, including the southwest of the former province of Saxony and all the former enclaves; the capital was Erfurt.
Thuringia was reconstituted as a Land in 1990 with boundaries similar to those of its post-World War II predecessor.
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 Thuringia - Simple English Wikipedia
Thuringia (German Thüringen) is a Bundesland of Germany.
Thuringia borders on the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Hesse.
The biggest mountain in Thuringia is with 982m the Großer Beerberg in the Thuringia Forest.
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 Thuringia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The region of Thuringia extends to the foot of the Harz Mts.
Although the succession to Thuringia was long contested after Henry’s death in 1247, the major part eventually fell to the house of Wettin, i.e., to the margraves of Meissen, who in 1423 became electors of Saxony.
Their rulers were expelled in 1918, and in 1920 the state of Thuringia was founded under the Weimar Republic by the union of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (without the city of Coburg, which went to Bavaria), Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, the two sister principalities of Reuss, and the two sister principalities of Schwarzburg.
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 THE BUNDESRAT - Thuringia
Thuringia is often called "Germany's green heart", a name inspired above all by the Thuringian Forest, the Southern Harz and Kyffhäuser mountain ranges, the Saale valley and the Rhön region.
Thuringia as we know it today was formed in the twentieth century from seven smaller states, together with stretches of land that once belonged to Prussia.
Thuringia is surrounded by 5 other federal states, giving it a key position in transport infrastructure.
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 Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia
This church arose from Luther's Reformation, and the picturesque province of Thuringia was part of the stage of the Reformation from its beginning.
Pastors and church workers for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia (ELCT) are trained in theology departments of state universities, in church seminaries, in a church college in Hainstein and in the Deaconess Training College in Eisenach.
A Companion Synod relationship exists between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia is in with the ELCA Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod.
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 Thuringia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thuringia is a Free Federal State of Germany, with 2.46 million inhabitants.
Thuringia - the green heart of Germany- that is a diverse landscape with mountains of nearly 1000m altitude, countless meadows, endless woods, Nature Parks like the Thuringian Forest or the National Park Hainich, numerous brooks, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and much much more.
Thuringia is also a paradise for all types of active holidays, such as cycle touring, riding, rock climbing, para-gliding, all kinds of ski sports, wild and calm water rafting or dinghy tours, to name only a few of the leisure possibilities.
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 Thuringia articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The region of Thuringia extends to the foot of
A possession of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin, it became a separate duchy in 1681 under Bernard, third son of Ernest the Pious of Saxe-Gotha.
Built c.1070, later enlarged, and renovated in the 18th cent., it was the seat of the medieval landgraves of Thuringia.
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 Thuringia, Germany - tourism, travel
Unfortunately, Thuringia is such a well kept secret that many potential visitors have not yet discovered it.
In a certain part of Thuringia a law existed as early as 1642 that children had to go to school.
The "Rennsteig" in Thuringia is an old hiking trail with a length of 168 km (105 miles) which guides you through the beautiful Thuringian Forest on top of mountainous ridges.
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 Freistaat Thüringen - Welcome
Thuringia – the green heart of Germany, known for its inviting countryside, vast forests, and world-class cultural centers.
In the years since its re-establishment, Thuringia has developed into a successful and exciting state at the center of a reunited Germany, and has quickly managed to overcome the aftermath of dictatorship and a controlled economy.
We in Thuringia are proud of what we have achieved.
www.thueringen.de /en   (104 words)

  
 Thuringia
Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1190-1217), Ct Palatine of Saxony (1180-1217), +Schloß Friedenstein 25.4.1217; 1m: ca 1182 Sofie (+1189/90) dau.of Friedrich, Ct Palatine von Sommerschenburg; 2m: 1196 Sofie of Bavaria (+1238)
Ludwig IV "der Heilige", Landgrave of Thuringia, Ct Palatine of Saxony (1217-1227), Regent of Meissen (1221-27), +Otranto 11.9.1227; m.1221 Pss Elizabeth of Hungary (*1207 +17.11.1231)
Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia and Ct Palatine of Saxony (1242-47), *ca 1202, +16.2.1247; he was set up as anti-king to Friedrich II in Germany (1246); 1m: Elisabeth of Magdeburg (+1237); 2m: Wiener Neustadt 1238/9 Gertrud of Austria (+1241); 3m: 10.3.1241 Beatrix of Brabant (*ca 1225 +11.11.1288)
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 Thuringia Tourism - Thuringia Vacation Reviews - Thuringia Vacations - TripAdvisor
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 Holiday Apartment THURINGIA - wide choice of self catering apartments
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 Genealogist Volland in Erfurt-City-Thuringia-Germany
of the German province Thuringia and also an important center of German genealogy as well as economy.
With almost 200.000 inhabitants Erfurt is the biggest city of Thuringia with important sacred and secular archives of ancestry.
It is within easy reach for tourists, who are traveling in their ancestors' footsteps, via motorways A4 and A71, by train as well as via Erfurt International Airport.
www.genealogy-consultant-volland.de   (208 words)

  
 Thuringia (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thuringia official website, with information on history of the state coat-of-arms, also including links to the arms (with image) and flags (only descriptions) of the counties
Horizontal bicolor white-red, proportions 1:2, in the center the new arms of Thuringia: the old arms of the Landgravate of Thuringia (a red-white striped lion rampant on a blue field, but facing left) and with 8 white 6-pointed stars on the blue.
The state flag is the civil flag with the coat-of-arms in the center.
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 Thuringia (Germany)
Thuringia official website, with information on history of the state coat-of-arms, also including links to the arms (with image) and flags (only descriptions) of the counties
Horizontal bicolor white-red, proportions 1:2, in the center the new arms of Thuringia: the old arms of the Landgravate of Thuringia (a red-white striped lion rampant on a blue field, but facing left) and with 8 white 6-pointed stars on the blue.
The state flag is the civil flag with the coat-of-arms in the center.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-th.html   (995 words)

  
 Melodic ambience » Walking up stairs in Thuringia
Thuringia has a lot of interesting sights, the practical thing about them is that if you take the Autobahn 4 many of those are just right at it with just a few miles distance in between them.
The view of the building and the magnificent overview of the Thuringia landscape around it was worth all the climbing though.
Gotha: Originally not on our list of towns being visited in Thuringia money and gas was running out so on our way to Erfurt we stopped by here.
www.melodicambience.com /2006/10/27/walking-up-stairs-in-thuringia   (831 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Germany
In Thuringia, projections showed the CDU retaining its majority in the state parliament, with 45.4 percent of the vote to 14.1 percent for the SPD.
Thuringia, one of Germany's smallest states, is competing for investment and jobs with states that also went to the polls today.
Wedged between Bavaria and the Czech Republic, Thuringia is struggling to stem migration of workers to the south and investment capital to its new European Union neighbor.
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