grand duchy in English

noun
1
a state or territory ruled by a grand duke or duchess.
June 9, 1815, after 400 years of domination by various European nations, Luxembourg was made a grand duchy by the Congress of Vienna.

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1. By 12 September 90% of the Grand Duchy had been liberated.

2. Alexandrine of Baden (Alexandrine Luise Amalie Friederike Elisabeth Sophie) was born Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, now in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on December 6, 1820

3. Belarus became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which merged with Poland in 1569

4. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania had its own separate army, treasury and most other official institutions.

5. It later annexed the Novgorod Republic in 1478 and the Grand Duchy of Tver in 1485.

6. Abstract: 21 species of Aculeates are new for the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (see first list above)

7. Bpi Luxembourg has been operating in the Grand Duchy for 30 years, creating high-quality new residential, office, service and commercial developments.

8. The development of Byelorussian as a literary language was aided by its use as the official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

9. The development of Byelorussian as a literary language was aided by its use as the official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

10. From Baden, at that time the Grand Duchy, another group immigrated to Poland in 1830 and then in 1836 to Plotzk in Bessarabia

11. The hydraulic and hydrochemical interactions of surface water and groundwater in the riverbank of an alluvial stream in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg were investigated.

12. However, he escaped and returned to Saint Petersburg where he lived illegally before moving to the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1906 to finish his studies.

13. The Grand Duchy of Baden emerged from the Napoleonic Wars strengthened and enlarged, and in 1818 became one of the first German states to institute a constitutional monarchy.

14. The Grand Duchy of Baden is situated in the southwestern part of the German Empire, bounded by Switzerland, Alsace, the Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg, covering an area of …

15. 19 In the Middle Ages it was ruled in succession by the Kievan Rus, the Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire.

16. The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which possessed much of the Ukraine at the time) were attacked in 1487–1491 by the remnant of the Golden Horde.

17. Vladimir Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich was born in Moscow to a land surveyor family who came from the Mogilev province and belonged to the nobility of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania

18. Helmuth von Moltke was born in Biendorf, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and was named after his uncle, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, future Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) and hero of the Unification of Germany.

19. - Air Transport Agreement between the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Government of the State of Israel , done at Luxembourg on 14 June 1994, hereinafter referred to " Israel-Luxembourg Agreement" in Annex 2;

20. The Electorate of Salzburg (Kurfürstentum Salzburg or Kursalzburg), occasionally known as the Grand Duchy of Salzburg, was an electoral principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1803–05, the short-lived successor state of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg

21. Ardennes, also spelled Ardenne, wooded plateau covering part of the ancient Forest of Ardennes, occupying most of the Belgian provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, and Liège; part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; and the French département of Ardennes

22. 83/145/EEC, Euratom, ECSC: Commission Decision of 11 March 1983 concerning the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg pursuant to Article 13 (2) of Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 2892/77 concerning own resources accruing from value added tax (Only the French text is authentic)

23. In the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Zaraysk was one of the fortresses forming a part of the Great Abatis Border, a fortified line of felled trees, barricades, fortresses, ditches, which were built by Russians as a protection against the hordes of the Crimean and Kazan Tatars.

24. This 1820 map of Grodno Province and the Belostok region is from a larger work, Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo (Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire.

25. ‘After Chianti, Merlot is the next top selling red, followed by cabernet.’ ‘It began when the Grand Duchy of Tuscany laid down laws protecting the wines of Chianti in 1716.’ ‘If the wine comes from a well-known village in the Old World, such as Chianti, Burgundy or Rioja, …

26. בריסק דליטא; until 1921 Brest-Litovsk; from 1921 until 1939 Brześć nad Bugiem; after 1939 Brest), capital of Brest district, Belarus.In the medieval grand duchy of *Lithuania, from the 14 th to the 17 th centuries, in particular after the union of Poland and Lithuania in 1569, it was the main center of Lithuanian Jewry.

27. Ernst Abbe, (born January 23, 1840, Eisenach, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach [now Germany]—died January 14, 1905, Jena, Germany), physicist whose theoretical and technical innovations in optical theory led to great improvements in microscope design (such as the use of a condenser to provide strong, even illumination, introduced in 1870) and clearer understanding of …

28. The third persons which were not contacted were, on the one hand, private undertakings or bodies, namely Centre Professionnel des Statistiques de l' Acier ("CPS"), Darlington & Simpson, DSRM, Inter Trade, LME, Steelinter, UES and Valor and, on the other, certain administrative agencies or authorities in Member States or third countries responsible for competition matters, more specifically the Bundeskartellamt, the Office of Fair Trading, the Prisdirektoratet, the US Department of Commerce, the Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes, together with the Permanent Representation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the European Communities.