grand-duchy

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, the war of Finland 1808-09, between Sweden and Russia brought Finland under Russian rule as an autonomous grand-duchy, and for the first time Finland had a central government of her own.

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In the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, the war of Finland 1808-09, between Sweden and Russia brought Finland under Russian rule as an autonomous grand-duchy, and for the first time Finland had a central government of her own.

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BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF, a sovereign state of Germany, lying in the south-west corner of the empire, bounded N. by the kingdom of Bavaria and the grand-duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt; W. and practically throughout its whole length by the Rhine, which separates it from the Bavarian Palatinate and the imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine; S. by Switzerland, and E. by the kingdom of Württemberg and part of Bavaria.

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_ -- During the middle ages the district which now forms the grand-duchy of Baden was ruled by various counts, prominent among whom were the counts and dukes of Zähringen.

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In the end of the 15th century this principality began to attach itself to the grand-duchy of Moscow; and by Ivan III. it was ultimately united to Russia.

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It was he who after Austerlitz aggrandized the margravate at the expense of Austria; transformed it into a sovereign principality and raised it to a grand-duchy.

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BADEN, or BADEN-BADEN (to distinguish it from other places of the name), a town and fashionable watering-place of Germany, in the grand-duchy of

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BADENWEILER, a health resort and watering place of the grand-duchy of

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He had, it is true, been unable to prevent the retention of the grand-duchy of Warsaw by Alexander of Russia; but with the aid of Great Britain and

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In the hurry of the winding-up of the congress, however, the vexed question of the succession to the grand-duchy had not been settled.

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