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Definition of Teutoburger wald

1. Noun. A battle in 9 AD in which the Germans under Arminius annihilated three Roman Legions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teutoburger Wald

Literary usage of Teutoburger wald

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... the Weser and the teutoburger wald, with a great number reminding us of a religion and of events that are forgotten now by the people, that used them, ..."

2. The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton (1894)
"... IN THE TEUTOBURGER-WALD. Upon a rumor of a rising in the north, Varus set his troops in motion. It was about the time of the equinoctial storms, AD 9. ..."

3. The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton (1900)
"... IN THE TEUTOBURGER-WALD. Upon a rumor of a rising in the north, Varus set his troops in motion. It was about the time of the equinoctial storms ..."

4. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"In the north there are two long narrow mountain ridges, the teutoburger wald and the Weser chain converging towards it and cut through by the Weser in the ..."

5. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"In the north there are two long narrow mountain ridges, the teutoburger wald and the Weser chain converging towards it and cut through by the Weser in the ..."

6. The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful (1844)
"North and east of this tract is the teutoburger wald, a woody mountain tract, formed by several ranges which stretch from east to the north-west; ..."

7. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1854)
"From the quantity of water of the rivers of the teutoburger wald and the ... I have calculated that these buried masses of water in the teutoburger wald, ..."

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