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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- German royal family who ruled Brandenburg from 1415 and later extended their control to Prussia (1525). Under Frederick I (ruled 1701–1713) the family's possessions were unified as the kingdom of Prussia. From 1871 to 1918 Hohenzollern monarchs ruled the German Empire.
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- noun a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia
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Examples
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Paris had made up their minds to war with Prussia, this was sought for artificially in the name Hohenzollern, which in itself had nothing more menacing to France than any other German name.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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I should hardly have called the Hohenzollern candidature "_une excellente chose_": the expression is not natural to me.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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"Hohenzollern" chapter, and for much general assistance; to Capt.
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman
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Among those who took their turn in the hell of the Hohenzollern were the men of the 12th Division, New Army men, and all of the old stock and spirit of England, bred in the shires of Norfolk and Suffolk, Gloucester and Bedford, and in Surrey, Kent, Sussex, and Middlesex (which meant
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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Siegmund later wrote that post-World War I events cascaded into "the First World Revolution," which spelled the end of the Romanov, Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Ottoman empires, and the rise of Bolshevism in Russia.
Reading 'High Financier' getAbstract 2011
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Earlier, Hughes shipped hundreds of maps and engravings and more than a thousand books from his Hohenzollern collection to Yale, some of them rare volumes dating back to the 16th century.
Al Eisele: An American's Unique Link to German History Al Eisele 2011
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Certainly not her family in Balingen, who warmly welcomed us and took us on a tour of the imposing Hohenzollern castle.
Diane Ravitch: Reflections on a Visit to Germany Diane Ravitch 2011
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The 85-year-old Hughes began researching the Hohenzollern family as a 12-year-old boy in 1938 while exploring the attic of his grandfather's house.
Al Eisele: An American's Unique Link to German History Al Eisele 2011
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Certainly not her family in Balingen, who warmly welcomed us and took us on a tour of the imposing Hohenzollern castle.
Diane Ravitch: Reflections on a Visit to Germany Diane Ravitch 2011
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Certainly not her family in Balingen, who warmly welcomed us and took us on a tour of the imposing Hohenzollern castle.
Diane Ravitch: Reflections on a Visit to Germany Diane Ravitch 2011
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