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Palatinate

NOUN
  1. a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine

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  • Speyer, the capital of the Rhine Palatinate (Bavaria), 31 May, 1876. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • A rival duchy, the House of Bavaria, schemes to use him against the House of Baden to gain possession of the treasured ‘Baden palatinate.’
  • He was born in Kues, now Bernkastel-Kues, about 30 km from Trier, an old town in the Palatinate, founded by the Romans.
  • For centuries it was a palatinate under the jurisdiction of the bishop.
  • France also played a central part in the formulation of a coalition that included Denmark, Holland, England and Frederick of the Palatinate who allied against the might of the Holy Roman Emperor.
  • The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia.
  • Lacy, constable of Chester, raised the chief vassal of the palatinate to comital rank. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
  • It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain. Bahrain to sue Independent newspaper over articles
  • The Salian estates, to which his father had fallen heir on the death of Henry V, formed a nucleus, while, by purchase and otherwise, he acquired castle after castle, and one stretch of territory after another, especially in Suabia and the Rhine Palatinate. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
  • 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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