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61Mecklenburg–West Pomerania — ▪ state, Germany Introduction German Mecklenburg Vorpommern Land (state), northeastern Germany. Mecklenburg–West Pomerania borders the Baltic Sea to the north, Poland to the east, and the German states of …
62Lombard Street — West from Gracechurch Street, at No. 23, to Mansion House (P.O. Directory). In Langbourn, Bridge Within and Walbrook Wards. Earliest mention: Lumbardstret, 1319 (Cal. L. Bk. E. p. 96). The Lansdowne MS. quoted below may follow the… …
63Lombards — A Germanic people who first appear in the sources in the first century a.d., settling along the Elbe River, the Lombards, or Langobardi (Long Beards), developed a reputation for being an especially fierce people. Although they suffered… …
64Battle of the Göhrde — Infobox Military Conflict conflict = Battle of the Göhrde partof = the War of the Sixth Coalition caption = date = 16 September 1813 place = near Göhrde in Niedersachsen territory = result = Allied victory status = combatant1 = combatant2 =… …
65Weser River — River, western Germany. Formed by the union of the Fulda and Werra rivers at Münden, it flows northward into the North Sea through a large estuary. It is 273 mi (440 km) long. There are several hydroelectric dams on the Weser, and it is linked… …
66Wittenberge — Infobox Ort in Deutschland Art = Stadt Wappen = Wappen Wittenberge.png lat deg = 53 |lat min = 00 lon deg = 11 |lon min = 45 Lageplan = Wittenberge in PR.png Bundesland = Brandenburg Landkreis = Prignitz Höhe = 25 Fläche = 50.44 Einwohner = 19297 …
67Viking Age arms and armour — Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age (8th to 11th centuries Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and Norse laws recorded in… …
68Niederelbebahn — The Niederelbebahn (also called Unterelbebahn), literal German translation: lower Elbe line , is a railway line between Hamburg and Cuxhaven in northwestern Germany. At 103.6 kilometres of length, the line runs close to the southern bank of the… …
69Bremen — geographical name 1. former duchy N Germany between the lower Weser & the lower Elbe 2. state NW Germany area 156 square miles (404 square kilometers), population 681,700 3. city & port, its capital, on the Weser population 552,746 …
70List of confederations of Germanic tribes — The following are some historical Germanic Confederations: 230 BC Bastarnae, a mixture of Germanic tribes, at the Black Sea; they participated in the siege of Olbia (modern South Ukraine) in 220 BC. 109 BC Huge confederation composed of the… …
