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Berg
Berg , former duchy, W Germany, along the right bank of the Rhine River between the Ruhr and Sieg rivers. Düsseldorf was its chief city. A county in the 12th cent., Berg passed (1348) to the dukes of Jülich and in 1380 was made a duchy. In 1423 the duchies of Berg and Jülich were united. On the extinction (1511) of the Berg-Jülich line, Berg passed to Duke John III of Cleves (see Cleves, duchy of ), whose line died out in 1609, setting off a virulent struggle over succession that contributed to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618-48). In 1614, Berg was awarded to the Palatinate-Neuburg branch of the Bavarian house of Wittelsbach; the award was confirmed in the Treaty of Cleves (1666). Ceded to France in 1806, Berg was raised to a grand duchy by Napoleon I in favor of Joachim Murat. The Congress of Vienna assigned (1815) the duchy to Prussia. |
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Berg
•Berg, burg, erg, exergue
•Hamburg • Battenberg • Strasberg
•Habsburg • Salzburg • Strasbourg
•Pressburg • Spielberg • Tilburg
•Lindbergh, Strindberg
•Wittenberg • Vicksburg • Pittsburgh
•Ginsberg • Johannesburg
•Königsberg • Gettysburg • Freiburg
•Heidelberg • Heisenberg • iceberg
•Bromberg, homburg, Romberg
•Gothenburg • Warburg • Jo'burg
•Gutenberg • Duisburg • Magdeburg
•Brandenburg • Hindenburg
•Mecklenburg • Wallenberg
•Orenburg • Nuremberg
•Luxembourg • St Petersburg
•Williamsburg • Schoenberg
•Würzburg • Esbjerg
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"Berg." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Berg." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Berg.html "Berg." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Berg.html |
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