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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region and former duchy of west-central Germany east of the Rhine River. The duchy was created in the 12th century and was administered for many centuries by ecclesiastical princes, especially the archbishop of Cologne. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) marked the end of the Thirty Years' War. Napoleon seized the area in 1807 and designated a portion of it as the kingdom of Westphalia, to be ruled by his brother Jérôme. The region became part of Prussia after 1815.
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- proper noun A former
province ofGermany , now part ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia andLower Saxony ;Westfalen .
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Sunday's election in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is seen partly as a referendum on Germany's federal government, a conservative-led coalition, and Ms. Merkel, who has come under fire for her handling of the economic crisis in the euro zone.
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Once upon a time in Westphalia, in the castle of Monsieur the Baron von Thunder-ten-tronckh, there lived a young boy on whom nature had bestowed the gentlest of dispositions&hellip
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A French prisoner of war at Münster in Westphalia, Champion worked with Conrad Hoffman to provide relief services to French POW's in the camp.
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The Interior Ministry of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia is taking a new tack in the fight against homegrown terrorism.
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Well, von Scheffel is not a household name these days, and I could have spent ages tracking down the poem about the joys of walking in Westphalia from which some lines were quoted – but a visit to a search engine brought up his short biography and the whole of the poem very quickly indeed.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Anthea Bell, Part 1 2006
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One is here reminded of the famous words of Oxenstjerna3 to his son when he complained about the negotiations in Westphalia: "If you only knew, my son, with how little wisdom the world is ruled."
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After the population of Germany had been decimated, a peace was signed in Westphalia which did no more than reaffirm the original state of affairs except for granting some concessions to princes who did not even know how to preserve them.
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Münster II and Senne II, both in Westphalia; Schneidemühl; and Dyrotz.
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ALISO, a fort built by Drusus, the father of Germanicus, in the part of Germany now called Westphalia, near the city of _Paderborn_.
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Westphalia, which is Germany's industrial heartland - where unemployment is high.
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