How To Use Duchy In A Sentence
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The 7th Army had its headquarters in Karlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and was commanded by Colonel General Josias von Heeringen.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase _in comitatum et baroniam_.
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We can't risk war between the duchy and the kingdom.
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Actually if the truth be told parmigiana cheese originates from Reggio, however as Reggio formed part of the original Duchy of Parma we won't be a "rompi scatole" (pain in the backside) about it.
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The despotate of Epirus succumbed in 1449, the duchy of Athens in 1456; in 1453
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The original archduchy, which included Upper Austria, is the nucleus of the
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In the novel, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, which is half a valley five miles long and three miles wide nestled in the Alps and mostly stuck in the 14th century, declares war on the United States and invades it with twenty longbowmen and three men at arms.
Ccfinlay: Bedtime Reading
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In September we found ourselves owners of a Victorian, former Duchy of Cornwall flat in a mansion block on a 90-year lease with a secluded garden.
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In Army of Duchy of Warsaw there existed ten uhlans regiments.
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Is located in the Grand Duchy of HA traffic roadside convenience.
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In 1657 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gained full sovereignty over the duchy.
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BRITTANY, or BRITANNY (Fr. _Bretagne_), known as Armorica (_q. v._) until the influx of Celts from Britain, an ancient province and duchy of France, consisting of the north-west peninsula, and nearly corresponding to the departments of Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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After World War II, the Grand Duchy became an active participant in the process of forming economic and political union within Europe.
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After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois.
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Yet the judicial and administrative reforms of 1289 in the duchy gave rise to certain anxieties.
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The warrens and enclosures at High and Low Dalby belonged to the Duchy of Lancaster and extended to nearly 3,000 acres.
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Louis XII became king of France in 1498 and, being a descendant of the first duke of Milan, he claimed the duchy.
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From this time the Babenbergs lost their influence in Franconia; but in 976 Leopold, a member of the family who was a count in the Donnegau, is described as margrave of the East Mark, a district not more than 60 m. in breadth on the eastern frontier of Bavaria which grew into the duchy of
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But the duchy also required government and administration during the absences of its ruler.
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Built by William the Conqueror, it and 17,270 Yorkshire acres hereabouts are owned (in a constitutionally convoluted fashion) by the Duchy of Lancaster (the Queen).
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The witness was reimbursed this witness* by the Solicitor-Gene - from the Duchy of Cornwall office* ral» he said* that this Mr.T. wa» by Mr. Gray.
Sporting Magazine
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As you have been told, he bequeathed to you his duchy and his title of duke of Gandia.
THE FAMILY
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To appease his uncles, cousins, and younger siblings, King Rham crafted five different duchies instead of the original three set by Phendarm (for Rhamâs four brothers and a royal duchy around the capitol) and more than a score of earldoms among them.
The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates
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Europeans may have been similarly mystified when "I Can't Stand It" had wavered from the Duchy of Luxembourg nearly three years earlier.
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Richard, the second son, was invested with the duchy of Aquitaine, ruling jointly with Eleanor, his lady mother.
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The European territories of the earlier empire were divided between the Greek despotate of Epirus and the Greek duchy of Neopatras (Thessaly, Locris), the Latin duchy of Athens, the Latin principality of Achaea, and the Venetian duchy of the Archipelago.
F. The Byzantine Empire
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In March 1628 a Spanish army besieged its key fortress of Casale, while a Piedmontese force occupied the remainder of the duchy.
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The capital of this archduchy is Achstein, which lies in the north-east on the shores of Lake Is.
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Hastings' retinue was essentially the duchy of Lancaster connection in the north midlands.
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The farm supplies milk from its Ayrshire herd for Duchy Originals milk, vegetables for crisps, oats and wheat for biscuits, pigs for bacon and sausages and barley for ale.
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The duchy's pleasures have always been earned rather than dished out.
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The powerful Colonna family, whose antecedents included Pope Martin V, had become titular rulers of Caravaggio's native Duchy of Milan, and showed a solicitous concern for his welfare on several occasions.
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What could cause such a riotous disturbance in the politics of the duchy?
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Tensions are mounting between the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Grand Duchy of Muscovy.
McCain Again Refers To Czechoslovakia, A Non-Existent Country
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Last night campaigners for the abolition of the monarchy slammed the Duchy's deal with the taxman.
The Sun
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Federigo I (1478-84), and creating the marquessate of Sabbioneta, which became a duchy, and the Principality of Borzolo for
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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A duchy and Austrian crownland, divided by the River Mur into Upper and Lower Styria.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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He was somewhat overweary after a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he always came for health and rest when opportunity offered, and now he had returned for the third time to the Duchy Hotel at
The Red Redmaynes
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To refuse to blame the system is to assume a certain power, the way a pretender assumes a royal title or titular duchy or two.
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Do you see a future Prime Minister who shops at Paul Smith and dunks Duchy Originals into Lapsang Souchong?Opt for Hugo.
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A beautiful, headstrong, and feisty young woman, she was the heiress to the duchy of Hilos, one of the richest provinces.
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After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois.
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Two following waves of Britons (or Brythons) settled in Armorica around the fourth and fifth centuries to escape from the Anglo-Saxons and the Scots in Britain, and they actually gave the country the name of “Little Britain” which later became the modern “Brittany” (in London, Little Britain was also the street where Embassy of the Duchy of Brittany was later located).
Brittany Prepares for St. Yew's Day
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The 7th Army had its headquarters in Karlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and was commanded by Colonel General Josias von Heeringen.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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He lacked energy, neglected the empire, and busied himself in enlarging his Austrian domains, which he erected into an _archduchy_ (1453).
Outline of Universal History
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Palatinate only, but from the archduchy of Salzburg and from other parts of Germany and Switzerland, gathered up and removed to America, some of them directly, some by way of England, as an act of political charity by
A History of American Christianity
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Although a significant portion of the duchy's lands was in the county of Cornwall, the two are not geographically the same.
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They were enclosed in the calcareous mass, as the quartz crystals of Burgtonna, * (* In the duchy of Gotha.) and the boracite of
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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Even the Duchy quarterly The Cornish Banner received the book enthusiastically.
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When we have fully discussed these great preliminary questions, with which no sovereign embarrasses himself, or is embarrassed, we must proceed to discuss the right of fifty or sixty families upon the county of Alost; the town of Orchies; the duchy of Berg and of
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The origins of the duchy of Normandy lie in a grant of territory around Rouen made early in the 10th cent. by the king of the west Franks to a Viking chieftain named Rollo.
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His army was quartered in the Duchy of Friedland - land owned by Wallenstein.
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When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown.
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The odor of failure and confusion linger over the Duchy like the smell of rotting flesh.
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Coburg and Gotha were the two towns in the former duchy of Saxen-Coburg and Gotha.
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While Eleanor was to have Aquitaine in her own right, the son of that marriage would inherit both the kingdom and the duchy, doubling the royal holdings.
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Perhaps only in Urbino does one pick up the same sense, in Italy, of absolute power in a confined space: this is a duchy that made a virtue of containment, a secret garden in the demesne of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
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As the income Edward II derived from his tenure of the duchy exceeded that of all the English shires combined,2 he not surprisingly exerted great effort to maintain his administrative and judicial presence in what remained to him of the so-called Angevin empire.
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
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He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships.
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Austria, which had been solemnly created an archduchy by the emperor Frederick in 1453, was claimed by the three remaining Habsburg princes, and lower Austria was secured by Frederick, while Albert obtained upper Austria.
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The nobles founded many monasteries and the archbishopric of Rouen was coterminous with the duchy.
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From 1568 he was chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.
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This rival claim, coupled with Normandy's long land frontier, meant that the duchy remained the most vulnerable part of his empire.
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In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland.
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It was owing to the mines that Dartmoor became a part of the Duchy, for the 'metalliferous' moors of Dartmoor and Cornwall had, on that account, long been Crown lands; and therefore, when Edward III created his eldest son Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, the Chase of Dartmoor, and the
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase _in comitatum et baroniam_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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BUKOVINA, a duchy and crownland of Austria, bounded E. by Russia and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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The odor of failure and confusion linger over the Duchy like the smell of rotting flesh.
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His younger brother, the count of Penthiev had left only one daughter, whom the duke deemed his heir; and as his family had inherited the duchy by a female succession, he thought her title preferable to that of the count of
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
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[Sidenote: Austria created an archduchy.] were equally unfortunate under the rule of Frederick and Albert; and the death of Ladislaus led to still further complications.
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The two chief districts were the country about Ravenna, the exarchate, where the exarch was the centre of the opposition, and the Duchy of Rome, which embraced the lands of Roman Tuscany north of the Tiber and to the south the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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She's a duchess of a duchy north of here, called Mordalia.
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Each duchy was to have only one gallows, and that was to be under the control of the ruling house.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The third lion was added by King Henry II to represent the duchy his wife, Eleanor, came from and is called Aquitaine.
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Stephen III or of Paul I, who reigned when the Duchy of Rome was already independent of the Eastern Empire; the first true papal coins are those of Adrian I, from whose time until the reign of John XIV
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Lorraine, an independent duchy embedded in French territory and occupied and exploited by the French ever since 1670 in the hope of ultimate annexation, had to be given up.
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We have an independent audit and accountants say the Duchy is being run according to all modern accounting practices.
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Lady Clarine's Customs of Buck Duchy I rose from my sickbed the next day.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The second was the transportation of “the Palatines,” expatriated by stress of persecution and war, not from the Rhenish Palatinate only, but from the archduchy of Salzburg and from other parts of Germany and Switzerland, gathered up and removed to America, some of them directly, some by way of
A History of American Christianity
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Princess Maria and Prince Ron manage their Duchy well, but it is also the dumping ground for jesters, knaves and fools.
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He received substantial grants of land in the south-west, the high stewardship of the duchy of Cornwall and the lord wardenship of the stannaries (both previously held by Exeter).
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The Elbe is the chief river, and intersecting the eastern portion of the duchy, from east to west, receives at Rosslau the waters of the Mulde.
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He was seen as bringing glory to the duchy and the Duke was active in getting important commissions for him, as well as using his paintings as political gifts.
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Stephen III or of Paul I, who reigned when the Duchy of Rome was already independent of the Eastern Empire; the first true papal coins are those of Adrian I, from whose time until the reign of John XIV
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Emperor, and three years later had conquered the valuable archduchy of
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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As a consequence, Francis renounced his claims to Italy, his possession of the duchy of Burgundy and his feudal suzerainty over Flanders and Artois.
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In 1453 the duchy was raised to the rank of an archduchy, and later in the century the Emperor Maximilian I. entertained plans for the establishment of an Austrian electorate, or even an Austrian kingdom.
The Governments of Europe
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The landlady happened to be the most riggish female in the Duchy of Milan.
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Last night campaigners for the abolition of the monarchy slammed the Duchy's deal with the taxman.
The Sun
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Each duchy represents the separate annexation of a piece of territory, usually by warfare.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Although he distinguished himself in the fighting, the French were chased out of their Italian territories including the duchy of Milan which Louis XII had ruled since 1499.
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Charles of Orleans, the son of Valentina Visconti and the assassinated duke, laid claim to various territories in northwestern Italy, including the duchy of Milan.
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Death of Ferdinand I; Maximilian II succeeds in the German empire, the archduchy of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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* -- In 1519 Maximilian I. was succeeded in the archduchy of Austria, as well as in the Imperial office, by his grandson Charles of Spain, known thenceforth as the
The Governments of Europe
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Distinct from this was the chief steward's right to appoint the stewards of some lesser estates within the duchy.
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As a result of the 1839 partition, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg got its present configuration.
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The coat of arms of the former duchy of Brittany is "Ermine", one of very few coats that are of one tincture only.
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En masse, they joined, creating an instant archduchy (Tierra del Fuego) in 1996.
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Turin had been the capital of the duchy of Savoy, but became the capital of the kingdom of Sardinia in 1720, sixteen years before Lagrange's birth.
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Bretons have their own language and customs, and until 1532 the province was an independent duchy.
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But, before this, William was to show himself as a warrior beyond the bounds of his own duchy, and to take seizin, as it were, of his great continental conquest.
William the Conqueror
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A rival duchy, the House of Bavaria, schemes to use him against the House of Baden to gain possession of the treasured ‘Baden palatinate.’
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But the duchy also required government and administration during the absences of its ruler.
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The position during the seventeenth century of the duchy of Savoy was much more uncertain than that of Venice.
