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Westphalia
Westphalia , Ger. Westfalen, region and former province of Prussia, W Germany. Münster was the capital of the province. After 1945 the province was incorporated into the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, now a state in reunified Germany. The region of Westphalia occupies, roughly, ... Read more
Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Westphalia 1648, general settlement ending the Thirty Years War . It marked the end of the Holy Roman Empire as an effective institution and inaugurated the modern European state system. The chief participants in the negotiations were the allies Sweden and France; their opponents, Spain a... Read more
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia , Ger. Nordrhein-Westfalen , state (1994 pop. 17,759,000), 13,111 sq mi (33,957 sq km), W central Germany. Düsseldorf is the capital. The state is bounded by Belgium and the Netherlands in the west, Lower Saxony in the north and east, Hesse in the southeast, and Rhinelan... Read more
Peace of the Pyrenees
Peace of the Pyrenees 1659, treaty ending the warfare between France and Spain that, continuing after the Peace of Westphalia, had been complicated by French intervention in the revolt of the Catalans (1640-52) and by Spanish intervention in the Fronde . Together with the Peace of Westphalia, it m... Read more
Eschweiler
Eschweiler , city (1994 pop. 55,790), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Aachen. Its manufactures include lignite, iron, steel, rubber goods, limestone, textiles, and plastics. Known in the 9th cent., Eschweiler passed to the duchy of Jülich in 1420 and to Prussia in 1815. Noteworthy struc... Read more
Hagen
Hagen , city (1994 pop. 214,880), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Ennepe River. It is an industrial center in the Ruhr district. Its manufactures include iron and steel, chemicals, machinery, paper, and textiles. Hagen was chartered in 1746 and became famous for its textiles in the late 18... Read more
Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze , 1784-1864, German architect and landscape and portrait painter. He was court architect to Jérôme Bonaparte of Westphalia and to Louis I of Bavaria, for whom he built many structures in the Italian Renaissance and neo-classical styles. His chief works in Munich were the ... Read more
Hans Scharoun
Hans Scharoun , 1893-1972, German architect. A member of the expressionist circle, Scharoun used a dynamic, sculptural approach to design throughout his long career. He conceived the Geschwister Scholl High School in Lunen, Westphalia (1962), as a complex of apartmentlike classrooms, built to create... Read more
Brunswick
Brunswick , Ger. Braunschweig , former state, central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony, Hanover, and Westphalia. The region of Braunschweig is situated on the North German plain and in the northern foothills of the Harz Mts. The land is drained by the Leine and Oker ri... Read more
Herford
Herford , city (1994 pop. 65,680), North Rhine-Westphalia, NW Germany, on the Werre River. Its manufactures include cigars, textiles, chocolate, carpets, machinery, and metal products. The city is also a major producer of furniture in Germany. Herford developed around a 13th-century church (still st... Read more

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Westphalia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Westphalia , Ger. Westfalen, region and former province of...incorporated into the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, now a state in reunified Germany. The region of Westphalia occupies, roughly, a triangle formed by a line...
Westphalia, Peace of (1648)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World WESTPHALIA, PEACE OF (1648) WESTPHALIA, PEACE OF (1648). The Treaties of M ü nster and...Thirty Years' War, are known collectively as the Peace of Westphalia. The main obstacles to a general peace in Germany after 1635...
North Rhine-Westphalia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition North Rhine-Westphalia , Ger. Nordrhein-Westfalen , state...lower Rhine plain, North Rhine-Westphalia includes the Teutoburg Forest and...gross annual product. North Rhine-Westphalia is also the most populous state in...
Westphalia, Peace of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Westphalia, Peace of (1648) Series of treaties among the states involved in the Thirty Years' War . In 1642, peace negotiations began in the cities of Westphalia, leading to the final settlement. In Germany, the peace established...
Peace of Westphalia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Peace of Westphalia 1648, general settlement ending the Thirty Years War . It marked the end of the Holy Roman Empire as an effective institution...
Münster
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1994 pop. 267,367), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, a port and industrial...Its bishops ruled a large part of Westphalia as princes of the Holy Roman Empire...uuml;nster was signed there (see Westphalia, Peace of ). Münster passed...
Augsburg, Religious Peace of (1555)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Golden Bull of 1356 and the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. These three laws formed the...renewed with modifications by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The Peace transferred the...Peace remained unsettled. The Peace of Westphalia, a pair of treaties that ended the...
Johannes Rau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the powerful state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and in 1994 as candidate for chancellor...overcrowding in universities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rau founded six new universities...from 1977 chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia state branch of the SPD; from 1978...
Soest
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Soest , city (1994 pop. 44,917), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany. It is a manufacturing city and an agricultural...the oldest cities of Germany. It was the chief town of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and was a flourishing member of the...
Vehmgericht
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...disorder. To control this lawlessness, there emerged in Westphalia near the end of the 12th cent. extralegal but efficient criminal...seignorial or territorial justice failed, they were strongest in Westphalia; in 1382, Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslaus granted them jurisdiction...

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Westphalia, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Westphalia, Treaty of (1648) The treaty signed at Münster and Osnabrück, which brought the THIRTY YEARS WAR to a conclusion...
Westphalia, Peace of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Westphalia, Peace of (1648). Two treaties which ended the Thirty Years War (q.v.).
Jacobson, Israel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...enthusiastic supporter of Napoleon's Assembly of Jewish Notables. Jacobson himself summoned a similar assembly in Westphalia in 1808 and was instrumental in the founding of the first Reform synagogues both in Westphalia and Berlin.
Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter ( b . Schr ö ttinghausen, Westphalia, Germany, 24 March 1893; d . Bad Salzuflen, Westphalia, Germany, 25 June 1960) astronomy. Baade ’ s father, Konrad, was a schoolteacher...
Frederick William III
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...surrender half his dominions by the creation of the kingdom of Westphalia and the grand duchy of Warsaw. In 1811 he joined NAPOLEON...Hardenberg, and at the Congress of VIENNA he won back for Prussia Westphalia and much of the Rhineland and of Saxony. He signed the HOLY...
Aldegrever, Heinrich
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Aldegrever, Heinrich ( b Paderborn, 1502; d Soest, Westphalia, c. 1555). German printmaker and painter. He worked mainly in Soest and was one of the leading artists in Westphalia in his day. His numerous prints, which include religious...
Behrens, Peter
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Classical : the crematorium at Delstern, near Hagen, in Westphalia (1906–7), is a good example. He became a founder...strong in his Haus Schröder, Hagen-Eppenhausen, Westphalia (1908), and Haus Wiegand, Berlin (1911–13...
Kemper, Werner Walther (1899-1975)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Rhineland, and died in Berlin on September 27, 1975. He was the second of seven children, his father being a village pastor in Westphalia and his mother coming from a family of Rhineland landowners. Having taken the special session of the baccalaureate in 1917...
Nostalgia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...among the Swiss regiments serving the king of France, and among foreign soldiers. There was, for example, a grenadier from Westphalia who had been consumed by Heimweh , which negated the idea that the illness was confined to mountain dwellers. Although nostalgia...
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2019; s father was a civil servant in Minden; his mother was the daughter of a minister named Schrader from Rheme, Westphalia. Bessel had six sisters and two brothers, both of whom became Judges of provincial courts. He attended the Gymnasium in...

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Westphalia Tries to Hold Fast to a Rural Past
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/31/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...the grass is low in the field next to Westphalia's neighborhood playground, a bit...still that way. At the same time, Westphalia residents say they are dealing with...Redell Dukes, president of the Westphalia Civic Association, said of his neighborhood...
Occam Networks' Broadband Loop Carrier Delivers Superior Solution to Westphalia Telephone Company; Occam Also Selected to Provide Active Fiber Solution.
Business Wire; 9/14/2006; 700+ words ; ...telecommunications companies, announced today that Westphalia Telephone Company has selected the company...broadband access solution installed in Westphalia's Michigan network. "We made the...quality," said Dave Fox, president of Westphalia Telephone Company. "We found the Occam...
Policy point-counterpoint: is Westphalia history?
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; Does a discussion of the Treaty of Westphalia, promulgated in 1648, rightfully fall under the...system and its alleged origins in the Treaty of Westphalia. The Treaty of Westphalia is used by social scientists as the foundation of...
Survey office: portal; North-Rhine Westphalia has discovered a new customer approach: since April 2006, the surveying office of the federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia sells its geodata via the new portal for geo base data.
Magazine article from: GEO: connexion; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...or historical maps of North-Rhine Westphalia can be purchased via the surveying office...the topographical map of North-Rhine Westphalia in the scales 1:10.000 and 1:50...other Federal States. North-Rhine Westphalia is the service provider for the central...
Point: the Westphalia legacy and the modern nation-state.
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Thirty Years' War in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia is often viewed as the progenitor of...Protestant Reformation, the Peace of Westphalia further weakened Papal authority throughout...international relations. The significance of Westphalia has nevertheless been scrutinized recently...
Counterpoint: the Westphalia overstatement.
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; Westphalia is no more. This is not the result...the Western world, if it ever did. Westphalia has been seen as epochal for many scholastic...over three centuries old by the time of Westphalia. Beginning in Italy after the decline...
Westphalia waltzes home for Dancer; Champagne winner adds to sire's pool of young talent PEDIGREE ANALYSIS.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 9/18/2008; 700+ words ; Byline: Nancy Sexton on Westphalia THIS season has presented bloodstock...lists for the 2,000 Guineas is Westphalia, another son of Danehill Dancer...more than once. By comparison, Westphalia's six starts do not have such...
NOTES FROM BOOMERANG CREEK History flavors a journey southward to Westphalia
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 10/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...pattern and take a road trip to the Westphalia Vineyard operated by her former neighbors...The plan was to visit the Neuners' Westphalia farm, have lunch and visit Mary's...up for the drive down Highway 63 to Westphalia - a picturesque, 47- mile drive from...
Westphalia mystery deepens
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK); 6/30/2008; 663 words ; ...Hellyer who reckons the writings of Westphalia-on-Sea are nowt to do with him...Paignton ... coincidentally named the 'Westphalia-on-Sea' race evening. A telephone...chairman of Torbay Lib-Dems. Why Westphalia, I asked him? He insisted the site...
Occam Networks' broadband loop carrier delivers superior solution to Westphalia Telephone Company.(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: XDSL News; 9/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...telecommunications companies, announced that Westphalia Telephone Company has selected the company...broadband access solution installed in Westphalia's Michigan network. We made the decision...quality, said Dave Fox, president of Westphalia Telephone Company. We found the Occam...