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Definition of Duchies
1. duchy [n] - See also: duchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duchies
Literary usage of Duchies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The union of the two duchies with the German Empire grew continually weaker,
especially as after the dissolution of the German Empire in 1806 the duchies ..."
2. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1875)
"The duchies to pay War Expenses of Pr«iria and Austria. 18. Mutual Restitution
of all Captured Ships and their Cargoes, or their Value. ..."
3. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815: New by Sir Spencer Walpole (1912)
"These incomes were supposed in 1837 to amount to ,£50000 The duchies a year.1
... The property belonging to both duchies was essentially distinct from the ..."
4. Introduction to the Study of International Law: Designed as an Aid in by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1897)
"The deputies of the estates of the duchies upon this petitioned the king to
convoke the ... The king's answer not being satisfactory, the duchies revolted, ..."
5. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"... gives up duchies. Even if that cession implied the surrender of the Got- ...
the Danish crown became possessed of the outlying plenum duchies of ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Henceforward, at the cost of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, the King of Denmark might
feel secure in his possession of the duchies. ..."
7. Life of the Emperor Frederick by Margarete Landau Poschinger, Edle von Margarete Landau Poschinger (1901)
"CHAPTER X THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ELBE duchies 1865—1866 BY the Peace of Vienna
the government of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein passed under the joint ..."
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