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capitularies
capitularies , decrees and written commands of the Carolingian kings of the Franks, so called because they were divided into capitula, or chapters. Both legislative and administrative, they were the chief written instrument of royal authority. The ordinances were issued either by the king alone or... Read more
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann 1880-1966, American painter, b. Germany. After earning a considerable reputation as a teacher in Munich, Hofmann moved permanently to the United States in 1930. He opened his own schools of art in New York City and in Provincetown, which were central to the development of abstract exp... Read more
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons name given to the Germanic-speaking peoples who settled in England after the decline of Roman rule there. They were first invited by the Celtic King Vortigern , who needed help fighting the Picts and Scots. The Angles (Lat. Angli ), who are mentioned in Tacitus' Germania, seem to h... Read more
Karl Stein, Freiherr vom und zum
Karl Stein, Freiherr vom und zum , 1757-1831, Prussian statesman and reformer. Rising through the Prussian bureaucracy, he became minister of commerce (1804-7) but was dismissed by King Frederick William III for his attempts to increase the power of the heads of the ministries. He was recalled (1807... Read more
Tacitus
Tacitus (Cornelius Tacitus), c.AD 55-c.AD 117, Roman historian. Little is known for certain of his life. He was a friend of Pliny the Younger and married the daughter of Cnaeus Julius Agricola. In AD 97 he was appointed substitute consul under Nerva, and later he was proconsul of Asia. The first of... Read more
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (Charles the Great or Charles I) [O.Fr.,=Charles the great], 742?-814, emperor of the West (800-814), Carolingian king of the Franks (768-814). King of the Franks Elder son of Pepin the Short and a grandson of Charles Martel , Charlemagne shared with his brother Carloman... Read more
Germans
Germans great ethnic complex of ancient Europe, a basic stock in the composition of the modern peoples of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, N Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, N and central France, Lowland Scotland, and England. From archaeology it is clear... Read more
Germany
Germany , Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est. pop. 82,431,000), 137,699 sq mi (356,733 sq km). Located in the center of Europe, it borders the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France on the west; Switzerland and Austria on the south; the Czech Republi... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Germania"

Germany, Idea of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...singular term was needed, "Alemannia," "Germania," and "Theutonia," for which no...Abbey of a unique manuscript of Tacitus' Germania. It was brought to Rome by 1455 and...each of whom wrote a work entitled Germania (published in 1500 and 1501 respectively...
Gitanos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...the Language of the present-day Rom. Cal ó was entirely distinct from Germania, or "thieves' slang," of Spain, and although it penetrated Germania, the reverse did not occur to any great extent. By the mid-nineteenth century...
Roberto Rossellini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...moments of human kindness. The last of this wartime trilogy, Germania, anno zero ( Germany, Year Zero; (1947), was also powerful...the other two films, Rossellini co-wrote the script. In Germania, anno zero, he explores how the Nazi doctrines corrupt a...
Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures Germany Culture Name German Alternative Names Germania (Latin), Deutschland (German), l'Allemagne (French...Identification. The name Germany is derived from the Latin word Germania, which, at the time of the Gallic War (58 –...
Tacitus, Cornelius
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...a biography of his father-in-law Julius Agricola; and Germania , an ethnographical account of the German tribes which contains...were translated into English by Sir H. Savile (1591), the Germania and Annals by R. Grenewey (1598); and after this Tacitus...
From Late Egyptian Times to the Nineteenth Century
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...and to the east coast of the Adriatic; it then spread to Germania (what is now Germany and some portions of central Europe...common era to malt beverages being consumed by the tribes of Germania (as well as by the Saxons, Celts, Thracians, and Scythians...
Freeman, Max
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Beginning his theatrical career in his native Germany, he made his American debut at New York's German‐language Germania Theatre in 1873. After spending some time at the California Theatre in San Francisco and touring with the Emily Melville Light...
Hammerstein, Oscar
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...operations, and his patents soon made him wealthy. Hammerstein then wrote several one‐act musicals for New York's Germania Theatre, and his success prompted him to become manager of the Stadt Theatre. In 1889 he built his first theatre, the Harlem...
Tacitus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...His small treatise De origine et situ Germanorum [concerning the origin and location of the Germans], commonly called the Germania or Germany, supplies (along with the earlier account of Julius Caesar) the principal written material on the Germanic tribes...
Germans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1st cent. BC) with the Romans. The chief historical sources for the culture and distribution of the Germans are Tacitus' Germania and Agricola and the remnants in later ages of early Germanic institutions. Apart from describing their barbarity and warlikeness...

Dictionary entries related to "Germania"

Nation
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...dynasts. Such groups were given specific names. Tacitus (c. 55 – c. 117) in Germania (98 c.e.) named the people ( gens ) of "Germania," differentiating distinct nations and subnations. However, there was no consistency in...
Tacitus, Cornelius
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...classical commentators . Of his five surviving volumes, the short Germania ( De origine situ moribus ac populis Germanorum , written c...are incidental in the text. Bibliography See Agricola, Germania, Loeb Classical Library No. 35 (Cambridge, Mass., 1968...
Amidei, Sergio
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...xE0; (Shoeshine ) (De Sica); Cronoca nera (Bianchi) 1947 Fatalità (Bianchi); L'altra (Bra gaglia); Germania, anno zero (Germany, Year Zero ) (Rossellini) 1948 Anni difficili (Difficult Years ) (Zampa); Ladri di biciclette...
Franchetti, (Baron) Alberto
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...8. His considerable wealth enabled him to stage his 9 operas which incl. Asrael (1887), Cristoforo Colombo (1892), Germania (1902, CG 1907), La figlia di Jorio (1906), and Notte de Legenda (1915). Wrote sym. and chamber mus. Verdi recommended...
teinm laída
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...xED;da is derived from the Norse teinar-laigðir [thorn staves] and thus is anticipated in Tacitus ’ Germania is now rejected. At present there is no learned agreement over just which procedures would bring teinm laída into...
Rosmerta
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...epithet of Gaulish Mars . Bibliography See J. Alfs , ‘A Gallo-Roman Temple near Bretton (Baden)’, Germania, 24 (1940), 128–40; Colette Bémont, ‘Ro-Smerta’, Études Celtiques...
Rossellini, Roberto
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1945 Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City ) (+ co-sc) 1946 Paisà (Paisan ) (+ co-sc, pr) 1947 Germania, anno zero (Germany, Year Zero ) (+ co-sc) L'amore (Woman, Ways of Love ) (+ sc); Il miracolo (The Miracle...
German
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology German pert. to Germania or Germany. XVI. — L. Germānus , perh. of Celt. orig. (cf. OIr. gair neighbour). So Germanic XVII.
Teuton
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Teuton member of a people of unknown race reckoned among the peoples of Germania. XVIII. — L. Teutonī , Teutones (pl.), f. IE. base meaning ‘people’, ‘...
Boas, Franz
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...friendly assistance. By June 1883 Boas was on his way to Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, on the Polar research schooner Germania . Before setting out for the Arctic, Boas read widely on Eskimo culture and studied the language, apparently intending to...

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FHLBB approves merger of Washington First Federal S&L into Germania F.A.
PR Newswire; 4/30/1986; 700+ words ; ...Ill., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Germania F.A. (NASDAQ-NMS: GMFD), a Southern...Federal Savings and Loan Association into Germania F.A. The terms of the supervisory...association prior to its merger into Germania F.A. Terms of the acquisition, which...
A.M. Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Germania Mutual Group and Its Members.
Business Wire; 11/13/2009; 700+ words ; ...and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a" of Germania Mutual Group (Germania) and its property/casualty members. (See below...Texas Heritage Insurance Company, an affiliate of Germania. The outlook for these ratings is stable. The...
High Ridge Announces Details on the Pacococha and Germania Claims and High Grade Polymetallic Veins in the San Mateo Area, Peru.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 5/17/2007; 700+ words ; ...available to High Ridge for the Pacococha and Germania claims, San Mateo area, Peru. The Pacococha and Germania claims are included in a group of concessions...maps, and sections for the Pacococha and Germania claims were prepared, not in accordance...
High Ridge Announces Details on the Pacococha and Germania Claims and High Grade Polymetallic Veins in the San Mateo Area, Peru
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 5/17/2007; 700+ words ; ...available to High Ridge for the Pacococha and Germania claims, San Mateo area, Peru. The Pacococha and Germania claims are included in a group of concessions...maps, and sections for the Pacococha and Germania claims were prepared, not in accordance...
Die 'Germania generalis' des Conrad Celtis: Studien mit Edition, Ubersetzung un Kommentar.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Die 'Germania generalis' des Conrad Celtis: Studien...humanists through his edition of Tacitus' Germania and the propagation of its ideas, not...situ et moribus Germanie additiones or Germania generalis, which is here presented...
A GATHERING OF SINGERS GERMANIA MAENNERCHOR BRINGS 'AWE-INSPIRING' SAENGERFEST TO TRI-STATE
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current); 4/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...planning by Evansville's 107-year- old Germania Maennerchor. Suddenly, "Germania Maennerchor" (German men's chorus) won...is co- chairing the Saengerfest with fellow Germania member Paul Bockstege. "It'll send chills...
BFC Germania 1888: A legend's rollercoaster ride
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/4/2006; 700+ words ; ...Germany's oldest soccer club, BFC Germania 1888. At first glance the clubroom looks...World Cup. Beside that is a photo of the Germania team from 100 years ago that won the...family to watch a football match and Germania was one of the teams on the pitch. Today...
SANRAD iSCSI SAN Solution Takes Flight with Germania Airlines.
Business Wire; 7/18/2005; 700+ words ; ...SAN solutions, today announced that Germania Airlines, serving commuter air travelers...Switch 3000 and eSeSIX SATA disk arrays. Germania's direct-attached storage architecture...applications on a long-term basis, Germania decided to consolidate servers and data...
Germania Building is sold for $4 million; Investors also own Iron Block Building
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/9/2007; ; 500 words ; Downtown Milwaukee's historic Germania Building has been sold for just more than $4 million to a local investors group. Germania Group LLC, led by Santino "Sonny...for $4.07 million, Bando said. The Germania Building was built in 1896 by George...
GERMANIA FOUNDER 'TRADES IN' RETIREMENT.(BUSINESS)(CROSS COUNTY)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 3/23/2006; 700+ words ; ...nation's dairy industry as the home of Germania milking systems. The man who traveled...In 1973 he started a new company, Germania (the Latin word for Germany). "We...This was our real commercial start." Germania opened a California office. Ralph Rottier...