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Aachen (district)
The district of Aachen (Städteregion Aachen) is a district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Aachen (district) are Rhineland.
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Aachen Cathedral
Aachen Cathedral (Aachener Dom) is a Catholic church in Aachen, Germany and the cathedral of the Diocese of Aachen.
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Aachen Forest
Aachen Forest (Aachener Wald, Aachen dialect Öcher Bösch, Akenerbos) lies about 3.7 km south of the city centre of Aachen and has an area of 2,357 ha.
Aachen Gospels (Ada School)
The Aachen Gospels (German: Schatzkammer-Evangeliar "Treasury Gospels", or Karolingisches Evangeliar "Carolingian Gospels") are a Carolingian illuminated manuscript which was created at the beginning of the ninth century by a member of the Ada School.
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Aachen Hauptbahnhof
Aachen Hauptbahnhof (German for Aachen main station) is the most important railway station for the city of Aachen, in the far west of Germany near the Dutch and Belgian border.
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Aachen Merzbrück Airfield
Aachen Merzbrück Airfield (Flugplatz Aachen-Merzbrück) is an airfield located near Aachen, Germany.
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Aachen Prison
Aachen Prison is a penal facility located in the Soers in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Aachen Schanz station
Aachen Schanz station is a railway station in Aachen, Germany on the railway line Aachen–Mönchengladbach.
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Aachen thermal springs
The Aachener Thermalquellen, also known as the Thermal Springs of Aachen and Burtscheid, are a system of more than 30 thermal mineral springs located in the area around Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany. Aachen and Aachen thermal springs are spa towns in Germany.
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Aachen Town Hall
Aachen Town Hall (Aachener Rathaus) is a landmark of cultural significance located in the Altstadt of Aachen, Germany.
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Aachen West station
Aachen West station is a railway station in Aachen on the railway lines Aachen – Mönchengladbach and Aachen-West – Tongeren.
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Aachen-Mitte
Aachen-Mitte is one of the seven boroughs of the city of Aachen, Germany, and contains the quarters of Beverau, Bildchen, Burtscheid, Forst, Frankenberg, Grüne Eiche, Hörn, Lintert, Pontviertel, Preuswald, Ronheide, Rothe Erde, Stadtmitte, Steinebrück and West.
Aachen-Rothe Erde station
Aachen-Rothe Erde station is a station in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway.
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Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway
The Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway is a main line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Aachener
The Aachener was a German automobile, built by the Aachen Steel Works and offered for sale in 1902.
Aachener Bachverein
Aachener Bachverein (often abbreviated as ABV) is a German oratorio choir of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in the city of Aachen that was founded in 1913 by Heinrich Boell.
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Aachener Chronik
Aachener Chronik is a town chronicle dated to the late 15th century.
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Aachener Printen
Aachener Printen are a type of Lebkuchen originating from the city of Aachen in Germany.
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Aachener Zeitung
Aachener Zeitung (Aachen Newspaper, AZ) is a daily newspaper published in Aachen, Germany.
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Abbess
An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey.
Abul-Abbas
Abul-Abbas (– 810) was an Asian elephant brought back to the Carolingian emperor Charlemagne by his diplomat Isaac the Jew. Aachen and Abul-Abbas are Matter of France.
Active fault
An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the future.
Alemannia Aachen
Alemannia Aachen or ATSV Alemannia 1900 is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Alfred Rethel
Alfred Rethel (May 15, 1816December 1, 1859) was a German history painter.
Alliance 90/The Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), often simply referred to as Greens (Grüne), is a green political party in Germany.
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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Alsdorf
Alsdorf is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Alsdorf are Aachen (district).
Alternative for Germany
Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) is a far-rightFar-right.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Antipope
An antipope (antipapa) is a person who claims to be Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in opposition to the legitimately elected pope.
Antipope Paschal III
Antipope Paschal III (or Paschal III) was a 12th-century clergyman who, from 1164 to 1168, was the second antipope to challenge the reign of Pope Alexander III.
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Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Artillery
Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Autobahn
The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.
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Basilica of San Vitale
The Basilica of San Vitale is a late antique church in Ravenna, Italy.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Benedictines
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
Benrath line
In German linguistics, the Benrath line (Benrather Linie) is the maken–machen isogloss: dialects north of the line have the original in maken (to make), while those to the south have the innovative (machen).
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
Bonn
Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. Aachen and Bonn are cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland and roman towns and cities in Germany.
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Botanical garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.
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Botanischer Garten Aachen
The Botanischer Garten Aachen (1.2 hectares) is a botanical garden maintained by RWTH Aachen.
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Brand (Aachen)
Brand is a borough of Aachen, Germany, with about 18,000 residents.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Bundesautobahn 4
is an autobahn in two discontinuous segments that crosses Germany in a west–east direction.
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Bundesautobahn 44
is a German Autobahn.
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Bundesliga
The Bundesliga, sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga or 1.
Burtscheid
Burtscheid (Porcetum) is a district of the city of Aachen, part of the Aachen-Mitte Stadtbezirk. Aachen and Burtscheid are spa towns in Germany.
Burtscheid Abbey
Burtscheid Abbey (Abtei Burtscheid) was a Benedictine monastery, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
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Bust of Charlemagne
The Bust of Charlemagne (Karlsbüste) is a reliquary from around 1350 which contains the top part of Charlemagne's skull.
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Byzantine silk
Byzantine silk is silk woven in the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium) from about the fourth century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Canonization
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
Capitoline Hill
The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio; Mons Capitolinus), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
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Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
Carnival
Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Carolingian architecture
Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics.
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Carolingian dynasty
The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.
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Carolingian Empire
The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
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Catalan language
Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
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Central Franconian languages
Central or Middle Franconian (mittelfränkische Dialekte, mittelfränkische Mundarten, mittelfränkische Mundart, Mittelfränkisch) refers to the following continuum of West Central German dialects.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. Aachen and Charlemagne are Matter of France.
Charlemagne Prize
The Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis; full name originally Internationaler Karlspreis der Stadt Aachen, International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen, since 1988 Internationaler Karlspreis zu Aachen, International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen) is a prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification.
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Charles François Dumouriez
Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez (26 January 1739 – 14 March 1823) was a French military officer, minister of Foreign Affairs, minister of War in a Girondin cabinet and army general during the French Revolutionary War.
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Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV (Karel IV.; Karl IV.; Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378Karl IV. In: (1960): Geschichte in Gestalten (History in figures), vol. 2: F–K. 38, Frankfurt 1963, p. 294), also known as Charles of Luxembourg, born Wenceslaus, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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CHIO Aachen
The CHIO Aachen (Concours Hippique International Officiel) is a popular international horse show held in Aachen, Germany, each summer.
Choir (architecture)
A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir.
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Christian Democratic Union of Germany
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands; CDU) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany.
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Church treasury
A church treasury or church treasure is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a cathedral or monastery (monastery treasure).
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Coin
A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.
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Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Aachen and Cologne are Catholic pilgrimage sites, cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, free imperial cities, Rhineland and roman towns and cities in Germany.
Cologne Carnival
The Cologne Carnival (Kölner Karneval) is a carnival that takes place every year in Cologne, Germany.
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Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway
The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project high-speed line Paris–Brussels–Cologne. It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company.
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Computer museum Aachen
The Computer museum Aachen (officially called Computer-Museum der RWTH Aachen) existed from 1987 to 2009.
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Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
The Congress of Aachen (Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle) was assembled on 24 April 1748 in the Imperial Free City of Aachen, in the west of the Holy Roman Empire, to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession.
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Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)
The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, held in the autumn of 1818, was a high-level diplomatic meeting of France and the four allied powers Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, which had defeated it in 1814.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
Conrad II (Konrad II, – 4 June 1039), also known as and, was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
Coronation Gospels
A number of medieval illuminated manuscript Gospel books are called the Coronation Gospels, meaning they have, at least by tradition, had a coronation oath sworn upon them at some point.
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Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor received the imperial regalia from the hands of the Pope, symbolizing both the pope's right to crown Christian sovereigns and also the emperor's role as protector of the Catholic Church.
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Councils of Aachen
A number of significant councils of the Latin Church were held at Aachen (also known in French as Aix-la-Chapelle) in the early Middle Ages.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cross of Lothair
The Cross of Lothair or Lothair Cross (Lotharkreuz) is a (jewelled cross) processional cross dating from about 1000 AD, though its base dates from the 14th century.
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Culinary arts
Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals.
Czech language
Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
David Hansemann
David Justus Ludwig Hansemann (12 July 1790 – 4 August 1864) was a Prussian politician and banker, serving as the Prussian Minister of Finance in 1848.
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Düren
Düren (Ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne, on the river Rur. Aachen and Düren are free imperial cities.
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Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. Aachen and Düsseldorf are cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland.
DB Regio
DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany.
Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
Deutscher Wetterdienst
The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
DHL Group
Deutsche Post AG, trading as DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany.
Die PARTEI
Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative (Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative), or Die PARTEI (The PARTY), is a German political party.
Diptych
A diptych is any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by a hinge.
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.
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Duchy of Jülich
The Duchy of Jülich (Herzogtum Jülich; Hertogdom Gulik; Duché de Juliers) comprised a state within the Holy Roman Empire from the 11th to the 18th centuries.
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Duisburg
Duisburg (Duisborg) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Aachen and Duisburg are cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, free imperial cities and Rhineland.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
E.GO Mobile
Next.e.GO Mobile SE is a German manufacturer of electric vehicles and sustainable mobility systems based in Aachen.
East Francia
East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.
Ecological Democratic Party
The Ecological Democratic Party (Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei, ÖDP) is a conservative and ecologist minor party in Germany.
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Eifel
The Eifel (Äifel) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. Aachen and Eifel are Rhineland.
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Eilendorf (Aachen)
Eilendorf is a borough of Aachen, Germany, that has around 15000 inhabitants.
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Eilendorf station
Eilendorf station is a station in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway.
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Einhard
Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; E(g)inhardus; 775 – 14 March 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier.
Equestrianism
Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.
Erwin Schwab
Erwin Schwab (born 1964) is a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, who works at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, near Darmstadt, Germany.
Eschweiler
Eschweiler (Ripuarian: Eischwiele) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch border, and about east of Aachen and west of Cologne. Aachen and Eschweiler are Aachen (district).
Eupen
Eupen (Ripuarian;; former) is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes).
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Euregiobahn
Euregiobahn is a system of regional trains (RB 20) in the combined area of the AVV (Aachener Verkehrverbund) at the Aachen (district), Düren (district) operated by DB Regio NRW.
European Portuguese
European Portuguese (português europeu), also known as Portuguese of Portugal (português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese (português ibérico), and Peninsular Portuguese (português peninsular), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau.
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European wars of religion
The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Eurostar
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Ewald Mataré
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré (25 February 1887 in Burtscheid, Aachen – 28 March 1965 in Büderich) was a German painter and sculptor, who dealt with, among other things, the figures of men and animals in a stylized form.
Feast of the Ascension
The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.
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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.
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FH Aachen
The FH Aachen – Aachen University of Applied Sciences is one of the biggest Fachhochschulen in Germany with roughly 15,000 students, 250 professors, 470 contract lecturers, and 340 assistants.
First French Empire
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Foehn wind
A Foehn, or Föhn, is a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
Foillan
Saint Foillan (Faélán, Faolán, Foélán, Feuillen) is an Irish saint of the seventh century.
Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
Francis Fabricius
Francis Fabricius (–1572) was a physician and humanist from the Low Countries.
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Franco-German war of 978–980
The Franco-German war of 978–980 was fought over possession of Lotharingia and over personal honour.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Aachen and Frankfurt are populated places established in the 1st century.
Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff (18 August 1902 – 25 March 1945) was a German lawyer who was appointed mayor of the city of Aachen after its capture by Allied forces in World War II.
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Frederick Barbarossa
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (Friedrich I; Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190.
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Frederick William III of Prussia
Frederick William III (Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840.
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Free Democratic Party (Germany)
The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP) is a liberal political party in Germany.
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Free imperial city
In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet. Aachen and free imperial city are free imperial cities.
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Friesenrath
Friesenrath is a small historic village in western Germany, near the spa town Aachen and the tri-border region to Belgium and the Netherlands.
Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
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German Army
The German Army ('army') is the land component of the armed forces of Germany.
German Confederation
The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe.
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German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen cooperation between disciplines and institutions, to strengthen international cooperation of research, and to enhance the international appeal of excellent German universities.
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German-speaking Community of Belgium
The German-speaking Community (Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft), also known as East Belgium (Ostbelgien), is one of the three federal communities of Belgium, with an area of in the Liège Province of Wallonia, including nine of the eleven municipalities of Eupen-Malmedy.
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Gingerbread
Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses.
Gospels of Otto III
The Gospels of Otto III (Munich, Bayer. Staatsbib., Clm. 4453) is considered a superb example of Ottonian art because of the scope, planning, and execution of the work.
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Grannus
Grannus (also Granus, Mogounus, and Amarcolitanus) was a Celtic deity of classical antiquity.
Gratian
Gratian (Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383.
Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Greywacke
Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or sand-size lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
Groschen
Groschen (from grossus "thick", via Old Czech groš) is the (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver coin used in parts of Europe such as France, some of the Italian states, England, various states of the Holy Roman Empire, among others.
Gulpen-Wittem
Gulpen-Wittem (Gullepe-Wittem) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands (in the province of Limburg) with inhabitants as of.
Haaren (Aachen)
The formerly independent municipality of Haaren lies four kilometers north of Aachen, into which it was incorporated in 1972.
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Hadrian
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.
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Hans von Reutlingen
Hans von Reutlingen (1465-1547) was a German goldsmith and seal engraver who was born in, lived, and plied his trade in the city of Aachen.
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Hardiness zone
A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.
Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.
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Heerlen
Heerlen (Heële) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands.
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II (Heinrich II; Enrico II; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor ("Romanorum Imperator") from 1014.
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Herzogenrath
Herzogenrath (Ripuarian: Herzeroa; Hertseraoj; ’s-Hertogenrade) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Aachen and Herzogenrath are Aachen (district).
High Fens
The High Fens (Hohes Venn; Hautes Fagnes; Hoge Venen), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in Liège Province, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands.
High German languages
The High German languages (hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and eastern Belgium, as well as in neighbouring portions of France (Alsace and northern Lorraine), Italy (South Tyrol), the Czech Republic (Bohemia), and Poland (Upper Silesia).
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Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
The Cologne University of Music is a music college in Cologne, Germany.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845.
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HSL 3
The HSL 3 (Hogesnelheidslijn 3, High-Speed Line 3, LGV 3, ligne à grande vitesse 3) is a Belgian high-speed rail line.
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Human rights in Europe
Human rights in Europe are generally upheld.
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Imperial Regalia
The Imperial Regalia, also called Imperial Insignia (in German Reichskleinodien, Reichsinsignien or Reichsschatz), are regalia of the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Independent politician
An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.
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Indication (medicine)
In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery.
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Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
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Institute of technology
An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university, polytechnic school, or just polytechnic) is an institution of tertiary education (such as a university or college) that specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and natural sciences.
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Intercity bus service
An intercity bus service (North American English) or intercity coach service (British English and Commonwealth English), also called a long-distance, express, over-the-road, commercial, long-haul, or highway bus or coach service, is a public transport service using coaches to carry passengers significant distances between different cities, towns, or other populated areas.
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Intercity Express
Intercity Express (commonly known as ICE) is a high-speed rail system in Germany.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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Inversion (meteorology)
In meteorology, an inversion (or temperature inversion) is a phenomenon in which a layer of warmer air overlies cooler air.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Jörg Friedrich (author)
Jörg Friedrich (sometimes spelled Joerg or Jorg in English) (born 17 August 1944 in Kitzbühel) is a German author and historian.
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Jürgen Linden
Jürgen Linden (born January 13, 1947) is a German politician (Social Democratic Party of Germany) and was Lord Mayor of Aachen from 1989 to 2009.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Joséphine de Beauharnais
Joséphine Bonaparte (born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810.
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Kammerchor Carmina Mundi
Kammerchor Carmina Mundi is a professional chamber choir based in Aachen, Germany.
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Karlsschrein
The Karlsschrein (Shrine of Charlemagne) is located in Aachen Cathedral and contains the remains of Charlemagne.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kelmis
Kelmis (La Calamine) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège, named for the historical deposits of calamine (zinc ore) nearby.
Kerkrade
Kerkrade (Ripuarian: Kirchroa; Kirkraoj; Kerkrade or Kirchrath) is a town and a municipality in the southeast of Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands.
Kingdom of Germany
The Kingdom of Germany or German Kingdom (regnum Teutonicorum 'kingdom of the Germans', regnum Teutonicum 'German kingdom', regnum Alamanie "kingdom of Germany") was the mostly Germanic language-speaking East Frankish kingdom, which was formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843.
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Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.
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Kornelimünster
Kornelimünster (Mönster) is a town in the rural Münsterländchen area of Kornelimünster/Walheim, a district of Aachen, Germany.
Kornelimünster/Walheim
Kornelimünster/Walheim is the southernmost Stadtbezirk (borough) of Aachen, Germany, and borders the Eifel area of North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as Belgium.
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Kostroma
Kostroma (Кострома́) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia.
Krefeld
Krefeld (Krieëvel), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Krefeld are cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland.
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat.
Lateran Palace
The Lateran Palace (Palatium Lateranense; Palazzo del Laterano), formally the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran (Palatium Apostolicum Lateranense), is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later the main papal residence in southeast Rome.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Laurensberg
Laurensberg is a quarter (Stadtteil) and borough (Stadtbezirk) of Aachen, Germany.
Lebkuchen
Lebkuchen, Honigkuchen or Pfefferkuchen are honey-sweetened German cakes, moulded cookies or bar cookies that have become part of Germany's Christmas traditions.
Lemiers
Lemiers (Ripuarian: Lemieësj) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg.
Liège Province
Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium.
Limburg (Netherlands)
Limburg, also known as Dutch Limburg, is the southernmost of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands.
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Limburgish
Limburgish (Limburgs or Lèmburgs; Limburgs; Limburgisch; Limbourgeois), also called Limburgan, Limburgian, or Limburgic, is a West Germanic language spoken in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg, and neighbouring regions of Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia). Aachen and Limburgish are Rhineland.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of cities in Germany by population
As defined by the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, a Großstadt (large city) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
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List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population
The following list sorts all cities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with a population of more than 50,000.
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List of German monarchs
This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany (Regnum Teutonicum), from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918.
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List of mayors of Aachen
This is a list of mayors (Oberbürgermeister) and city managers (Oberstadtdirektor) of Aachen, Germany.
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List of minor planets: 274001–275000
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Lothair I
Lothair I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire; Italian: Lotario; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor (817–855, with his father until 840) and king of Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (843–855).
Lothair of France
Lothair (Lothaire; Lothārius; 941 – 2 March 986), sometimes called Lothair II,After the emperor Lothair I. IIICounting Lothair II of Lotharingia, who ruled over modern Lorraine and Belgium.
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Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious (Ludwig der Fromme; Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
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Louis XI
Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483.
Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet
Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (1759 – 7 July 1842) was a French historical painter and a pupil of Jacques-Louis David.
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Lousberg
At 264 meters, the Lousberg is a prominent elevation on the northern edge of the historic center of Aachen, which was laid out as a forest and mountain park at the beginning of the 19th century according to plans by Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe.
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.
Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish (also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; Lëtzebuergesch) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg.
Maastricht
Maastricht (Mestreech; Maestricht; Mastrique) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.
Maastricht Aachen Airport
Maastricht Aachen Airport is a major cargo hub and regional passenger airport in Beek in Limburg, Netherlands, located northeast of Maastricht and northwest of Aachen, Germany.
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Mainz carnival
The Mainz Carnival (Mainzer Fastnacht, "Määnzer Fassenacht" or "Meenzer Fassenacht") is a months-long citywide carnival celebration in Mainz, Germany that traditionally begins on 11 November but culminates in the days before Ash Wednesday in the spring.
Mannerism
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (English:; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.
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Margaret of York
Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503), also known by marriage as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Burgundian State after his death.
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Marienschrein
The Marienschrein (Shrine of Mary) in Aachen Cathedral is a reliquary, donated on the order of the chapter of Mary around 1220 and consecrated in 1239.
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519.
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Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach (Jlabbach) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Mönchengladbach are cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland.
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Mechatronics
Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering, and also includes a combination of robotics, computer science, telecommunications, systems, control, automation and product engineering.
Merovingian dynasty
The Merovingian dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751.
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Meuse
The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
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Meuse–Rhine Euroregion
The Meuse–Rhine Euroregion (Euregio Maas–Rijn, Eurorégion Meuse–Rhin, Euregio Maas–Rhein, Euregio Maas–Rien) is a Euroregion created in 1976, with judicial status achieved in 1991.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle Francia
Middle Francia (Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil war between the grandsons of Charlemagne resulted in division of the united empire.
Migration Period
The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.
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Mineral spring
Mineral springs are naturally occurring springs that produce hard water, water that contains dissolved minerals.
Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
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Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Montebourg
Montebourg is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Mudrock
Mudrocks are a class of fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.
Nagelfar
Nagelfar were a German black metal band.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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National Company of Light Railways
The National Company of Light Railways (Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen, abbreviated as NMVB; Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Vicinaux, abbreviated as SNCV) was a state-owned transportation provider which comprised a system of narrow-gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium, which covered the whole country, including the countryside, and had a greater route length than the mainline railway system.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Naumburg
Naumburg is a town in (and the administrative capital of) the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
New Tivoli
The Tivoli, colloquially known as the new Tivoli, is a football stadium in the Sportpark Soers in Aachen, Germany, that opened on 17 August 2009 replacing the nearby old Tivoli.
Nightclub
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.
Ningbo
Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis.
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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Odo II, Count of Blois
Odo II (985 – 15 November 1037) was the count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Champagne, Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and count of Troyes (as Odo IV) and Meaux (as Odo I) from 1022.
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Odo of Metz
Eudes (also Oto, Odo, Odon) of Metz (Օտոն Մացաեցի; Oton Matsaetsi; 742–814) was an architect, considered of Armenian origin, who lived in the Carolingian Empire during Charlemagne's reign.
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
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Old St. Peter's Basilica
Old St.
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Old Tivoli
The Tivoli, colloquially known as the old Tivoli, was a football stadium in Aachen, Germany.
Opérateur de transport de Wallonie
Opérateur de transport de Wallonie (OTW) (French for: Transport Operator of Wallonia), formerly Société régionale wallonne du transport (SRWT) (French for: Walloon Regional Transport Company), is responsible for the supervision, strategic planning and marketing of a group of five regional public transport directorate branded as TEC or "Transport En Commun" (French for: Public Transport) in Wallonia, Belgium.
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Opus sectile
Opus sectile is a form of pietra dura popularized in the ancient and medieval Roman world where materials were cut and inlaid into walls and floors to make a picture or pattern.
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red, was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983.
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Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto III (June/July 980 – 23 January 1002) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 996 until his death in 1002.
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Otto the Great
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (Otto der Große Ottone il Grande), or Otto of Saxony (Otto von Sachsen Ottone di Sassonia), was East Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973.
Ottonian dynasty
The Ottonian dynasty (Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman Emperors named Otto, especially its first Emperor Otto I. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem duchy of Saxony.
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Palace of Aachen
The Palace of Aachen was a group of buildings with residential, political, and religious purposes chosen by Charlemagne to be the center of power of the Carolingian Empire.
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Palatine Chapel, Aachen
The Palatine Chapel in Aachen is an early medieval chapel and remaining component of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen in what is now Germany.
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Patristics
Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers.
Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.
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Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).
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Pepin the Short
Pepin the Short (Pépin le Bref; – 24 September 768), was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768.
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Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
Pirate Party Germany
The Pirate Party Germany (Piratenpartei Deutschland), commonly known as Pirates, is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base.
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Plombières
Plombières (Bleyberg or Bleiberg, Blieberg; So-on-Mont-d'-Plomb) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Ponttor
The Ponttor in Aachen, Germany, (known in the 17th and 18th centuries as the Brückenpforte or Brückenthor) is one of the two remaining gates of the original city wall of Aachen (the other being the Marschiertor).
Pope Francis
Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
Prefectures in France
In France, a prefecture (préfecture) may be.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Raeren
Raeren is a municipality of the German speaking community of Belgium located in the Walloon province of Liège.
Ravenna
Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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Regional-Express
In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train.
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Regionalbahn
The Regionalbahn (lit. Regional train; abbreviated RB) is a type of local passenger train (stopping train) in Germany.
Reims
Reims (also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France.
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Reims Cathedral
Notre-Dame de Reims (meaning "Our Lady of Reims"), known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of the same name, the archiepiscopal see of the Archdiocese of Reims.
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Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
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Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism was a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.
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Renault
Groupe Renault (also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899.
Renault Kangoo
The Renault Kangoo is a family of vans built by Renault since 1997 across three generations.
Rhenish Massif
The Rhenish Massif, Rhine Massif or Rhenish Uplands (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge,: 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France. Aachen and Rhenish Massif are Rhineland.
Rhenish Republic
The Rhenish Republic (Rheinische Republik) was proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) in October 1923 during the occupation of the Ruhr by troops from France and Belgium (January 19231925) and subjected itself to French protectorate.
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Rheumatism
Rheumatism or rheumatic disorders are conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints or connective tissue.
Rhine Province
The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1945.
Rhineland
The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Richterich
Richterich is a borough and northwestern suburb of Aachen, Germany.
Ripuarian Franks
Ripuarian or Rhineland Franks (Latin: Ripuarii or Ribuarii) were one of the two main groupings of early Frankish people, and specifically it was the name eventually applied to the tribes who settled in the old Roman territory of the Ubii, with its capital at Cologne on the Rhine river in modern Germany.
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Ripuarian language
Ripuarian (also Ripuarian Franconian; Ripuarisch,, ripuarische Mundart, ripuarischer Dialekt, ripuarisch-fränkische Mundart, Ribuarisch, Ripuarisch, Noordmiddelfrankisch) is a German dialect group, part of the West Central German language group. Aachen and Ripuarian language are Rhineland.
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.
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Robert Lefèvre
Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (24 September 1755, in Bayeux – 3 October 1830, in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings.
Roer
The Roer or Rur (Rur; Dutch and Roer,,; Rour) is a major river that flows through portions of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Roer (department)
Roer was a department of the French First Republic and later First French Empire in present-day Germany and the Netherlands.
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Roetgen
Roetgen is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Roetgen are Aachen (district).
Roman people
The Roman people was the body of Roman citizens (Rōmānī; Ῥωμαῖοι) during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
Rothe Erde
Rothe Erde is a district of Aachen, Germany with large-scale development in heavy industry.
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608).
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Ruhr
The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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RWTH Aachen University
RWTH Aachen University, in German Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.
Saint Stephen
Stephen (wreath, crown, and by extension 'reward, honor, renown, fame', often given as a title rather than as a name; c. AD 5 – c. 34) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity.
Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
Sarıyer
Sarıyer is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
Scotch Club
The Scotch Club in Aachen was one of the first discothèque in Germany, opening on 19 October 1959.
Sedentism
In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time.
Sewing needle
A sewing needle, used for hand-sewing, is a long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) to hold the sewing thread.
Sibylle Keupen
Sibylle Keupen (born 14 March 1963 in Mayen) is a German politician (non-party, close to the Green Party) and a qualified pedagogue.
Siegerland
The Siegerland is a region of Germany covering the old district of Siegen (now part of the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia) and the upper part of the district of Altenkirchen, belonging to the Rhineland-Palatinate adjoining it to the west.
Simpelveld
Simpelveld (Zumpelveld) is a municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands.
Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.
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Soers
Soers is a community within Aachen and part of the district of Aachen-Laurensberg.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
Spanish Netherlands
The Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols; Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
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St. Michael's Church, Aachen
St.
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St. Stephen's Purse
Saint Stephen's Purse (Sacculum idem Sanctus Stephanus, Stephansbursa or Stephansburse) is a rectangular gold 9th-century reliquary studded with gem stones.
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Stolberg (Rhineland)
Stolberg (Ripuarian: Stolbersch) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Stolberg (Rhineland) are Aachen (district).
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StreetScooter
B-ON GmbH (formerly Streetscooter GmbH until 2022) is an electric vehicle manufacturer located in Aachen, Germany.
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum
The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum is an art museum in Aachen, Germany.
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Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
Talisman of Charlemagne
The Talisman of Charlemagne is a 9th-century Carolingian reliquary encolpion that may once have belonged to Charlemagne and is purported to contain a fragment of the True Cross.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
Textile industry in Aachen
The textile industry in Aachen has a history that dates back to the Middle Ages.
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The Left (Germany)
The Left (Die Linke), commonly referred to as the Left Party (Die Linkspartei), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany.
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The Ruins of Beverast
The Ruins of Beverast is a German blackened doom metal project formed by Alexander von Meilenwald in 2003.
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Theater Aachen
Theater Aachen is a theatre in Aachen, Germany.
Theodoric
Theodoric is a Germanic given name.
Thermae
In ancient Rome, (from Greek, "hot") and (from Greek) were facilities for bathing.
Thrust fault
A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
Toledo, Spain
Toledo is a city and municipality of Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.
Trams in Aachen
The Aachen tramway network (Straßenbahnnetz Aachen) was the backbone of public transport in Aachen, now in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the surrounding areas from 1880 to 1974.
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668)
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen ended the War of Devolution between France and Spain.
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of Aachen.
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Treaty of Lunéville
The Treaty of Lunéville (or Peace of Lunéville) was signed in the Treaty House of Lunéville on 9 February 1801.
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Treaty of Meerssen
The Treaty of Mersen or Meerssen, concluded on 8 August 870, was a treaty to partition the realm of Lothair II, known as Lotharingia, by his uncles Louis the German of East Francia and Charles the Bald of West Francia, the two surviving sons of Emperor Louis I the Pious.
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Treaty of Verdun
The Treaty of Verdun, agreed in, divided the Frankish Empire into three kingdoms between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I, the son and successor of Charlemagne.
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Uniklinikum Aachen
The Uniklinikum Aachen, full German name Universitätsklinikum Aachen ("University Hospital Aachen", abbreviated UKA), formerly known as Neues Klinikum ("New Clinic"), is the university hospital of the city of Aachen, Germany.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Urban heat island
Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.
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Vaals
Vaals (Ripuarian: Vols) is a town in the extreme southeastern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, itself in the southeast of the Netherlands.
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Vaalserberg
The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of above NAP and is the highest point in the European part of the Netherlands. Aachen and Vaalserberg are Belgium–Germany border crossings.
Variscan orogeny
The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea.
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Veolia Transport Nederland
Veolia Transport Nederland was one of the two Transdev operations in the Netherlands operating bus, train and ferry services.
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Verlautenheide
Verlautenheide is a rural section of northeast Aachen, with a population of around 3500.
Vicus
In Ancient Rome, the Latin term vicus (plural vici) designated a village within a rural area (pagus) or the neighbourhood of a larger settlement.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Villa rustica
Villa rustica was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas.
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.
Waggonfabrik Talbot
Waggonfabrik Talbot was a rolling stock manufacturer founded in Aachen, Germany, in 1838.
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Walheim
Walheim is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with a considerable viticulture.
Walloon language
Walloon (natively walon; wallon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, United States.
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War of Devolution
The War of Devolution took place from May 1667 to May 1668.
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War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Würselen
Würselen (Ripuarian: Wöschele) is a town in the borough of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen and Würselen are Aachen (district).
West Francia
In medieval historiography, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the year 843, from the Treaty of Verdun, to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.
West Germanic languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).
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Wimbledon Championships
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Wurm
The Wurm (Worm) is a river in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany.
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1992 Roermond earthquake
The 1992 Roermond earthquake occurred on 13 April, around 3:20 AM (1:20 UTC) with a moment magnitude of 5.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
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2006 FEI World Equestrian Games
The 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games were held in Aachen, Germany from 20 August to 3 September 2006.
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See also
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- Aachen
- Avalites
- Boudican revolt
- Commagene
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- Domitian's Dacian War
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- Malao
- Zoku-Jōmon period
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Aachen (district)
- Aachen
- Aachen (district)
- Aachen II
- Alsdorf
- Baesweiler
- Eifel Literature Festival
- Eschweiler
- Herzogenrath
- Monschau
- Monschau Hedge Land
- Obersee (Rur)
- Puffendorf (town)
- Roetgen
- Schlangenberg Nature Reserve
- Simmerath
- Stolberg (Rhineland)
- Venn Foreland
- Würselen
Belgium–Germany border crossings
- Aachen
- Eynatten
- Hauset
- Vaalserberg
Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Aachen
- Bergisch Gladbach
- Bielefeld
- Bochum
- Bonn
- Bottrop
- Cologne
- Düsseldorf
- Dortmund
- Duisburg
- Essen
- Gütersloh
- Gelsenkirchen
- Hagen
- Hamm
- Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Korschenbroich
- Krefeld
- Leverkusen
- Mönchengladbach
- Mülheim
- Münster
- Moers
- Neuss
- Oberhausen
- Paderborn
- Recklinghausen
- Remscheid
- Siegen
- Solingen
- Wuppertal
Roman towns and cities in Germany
- Aachen
- Aliso (Roman camp)
- Augsburg
- Augusta Treverorum
- Bonn
- Cologne
- Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
- Colonia Ulpia Traiana
- Contiomagus
- Mainz
- Neuss
- Nida (Roman town)
- Trier
- Waldgirmes Forum
- Wiesbaden
- Xanten
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