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Definition of Ostmark
1. Noun. The currency unit of the former German Democratic Republic (aka GDR, DDR, East Germany) until 1990, abbreviated DDM. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ostmark
1. a former East German monetary unit [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostmark
Literary usage of Ostmark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vikings in Western Christendom, A.D. 789 to A.D. 888 by Charles Francis Keary (1891)
"It was on account of this eastern policy of Germany that the ostmark, the Eastern
Mark, ... This ostmark, now that Lewis was getting on in years—he was ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"When, after the victory of Lech, the Germans pressed forward and regained the
old ostmark, Bishop Adalbert (946-971) hoped to extend his spiritual ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... which thus included the whole eastern part (ostmark) of Southern Bavaria and
part of what is now Hungary. The first missionaries to the pagan Hungarians ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"There is no certain record that the lite of Vindobona та« occupied at the time
of the formation of the ostmark, though many considerations make it probable. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"(976) this "East Mark" i ostmark, Oesterreich, Austria) was granted in fief to
the Baben- ... of the ostmark, though many considerations make :' probable. ..."
6. Austria-Hungary: The Polyglot Empire by Wolf von Schierbrand (1917)
"For it was during the reign of Charlemagne, about 800 AD, that that great Frankish
ruler first founded the ostmark, or Eastern Marches, as a bulwark against ..."
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