Smiles on the Rhine

Leverkusen ( ) is a city in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine.

The Oude Rijn (Old Rhine) is a branch of the Rhine delta in the Dutch provinces of Utrecht and South Holland.

In 923 Henry crossed the Rhine twice.

It joined the Confederation of the Rhine on 30 September 1806.

Rhine is a town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States.

Siegen () is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine Westphalia.

The Treaty of Pressburg, in effect, led to the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine.

In 1797, France defeated the Holy Roman Empire and all lands west of the Rhine were lost.

The British Army of the Rhine was the Germany garrison formation, with the main fighting force being I (BR) Corps.

The Grand Duchy of Baden () was a state in the southwest of Germany, on the east bank of the Rhine.

Third, the Convention regulating traffic on the Rhine appears to have been considered in force during the First World War.

The University of Münster (, WWU) is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine Westphalia in Germany.

Merkel had a difficult time in the run up to her recent party conference, because Jürgen Rüttgers, the minister president of the largest German state, North Rhine Westphalia, reminded the Christian Democrats of their historical support for strong social welfare policies.

Bergisch Gladbach (, ) is a town in the Cologne Bonn Region of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch Bergischer Kreis (district).

In the second millennium BC, the region was the boundary between the Atlantic and Nordic horizons, roughly divided by the course of the Rhine.

The Principality of Regensburg () was a principality within the Holy Roman Empire and the Confederation of the Rhine which existed between 1803 and 1810.

Elkhart Lake is a village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States, located within the northwestern part of the county within the Town of Rhine.

BERLIN On the banks of the Rhine and in Prague, NATO and the European Union will pay homage to the new American president in early April.

Politically, it would be a big mistake for Germany to exit the euro, because that would reinstate the Rhine as the border between France and Germany.

Rotterdam has the largest port in Europe, with the rivers Meuse and Rhine providing excellent access to the hinterland upstream reaching to Basel, Switzerland, and into France.

Francia was no longer barbaricum trans Rhenum (barbarians across the Rhine), but a landed political power on both sides of the river, deeply involved in Roman politics.

During excavations of sites dated to the Roman period (around 400 AD) on the Rhine delta there were findings of important breeding sites of the Dalmatian Pelican ( Pelecanus crispus ).

As this region was politically connected to the Rhenish Palatinate, the name Upper Palatinate ( Oberpfalz ) became common from the early 16th century in contrast to the Lower Palatinate along the Rhine.

The Delta Works () is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine Meuse Scheldt delta from the sea.

On February 23, a day after addressing America s allies in Brussels, President George W. Bush will meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the old city of Mainz on the Rhine.

From the pro consulate of Julius Caesar until 1945, there was most likely at least one army crossing or about to cross or thinking of crossing the Rhine in arms.

Danish and Frisian were spoken predominantly in the north of the Prussian province of Schleswig Holstein and Dutch in the western border areas of Prussia (Hanover, Westphalia, and the Rhine Province).

On the same day, German Army Group G ( Heeresgruppe G ) and Army Group Upper Rhine ( Heeresgruppe Oberrhein ) launched a major offensive against the thinly stretched, line of the Seventh U.S. Army.

The area to the north of the Rhine, inhabited by the Frisii, remained outside Roman rule (but not its presence and control), while the border tribes Batavi and Cananefates served in the Roman cavalry.

Requests the UNCCD secretariat to continue developing its relations with the Government of Germany, the State of North Rhine Westphalia and the City of Bonn, as well as with academia and the private sector

In 1807 Prussian East Frisia and Jever were added to the kingdom but in 1809, after a British invasion, Holland had to give over all territories south of the river Rhine to France.

The secretariat has also maintained fruitful relations with Federal States, in particular with North Rhine Westphalia, where the secretariat is located, and with Hamburg and Bavaria, as well as with the City of Bonn.

The Grand Duchy of Berg () was established by Napoleon Bonaparte after his victory at the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz on territories between the French Empire at the Rhine river and the German Kingdom of Westphalia.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

It takes a very close look at the results of the recent elections in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia to find among the list of Others the tally for The Greys they got 0.1 of the vote.

The Ubii were a Germanic tribe first encountered dwelling on the right bank of the Rhine in the time of Julius Caesar, who formed an alliance with them in 55 BC in order to launch attacks across the river.

One consequence of that was eight months later on 6 August 1806, Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, due to the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine by France, as he did not want Napoleon to succeed him.

Politically, it would be a big mistake for Germany to exit the euro, because that would reinstate the Rhine as the border between France and Germany. Franco German reconciliation, the greatest success of the postwar period in Europe, would be in jeopardy.

They are spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, South Africa, Namibia, the western tip of Germany (in the West German Lower Rhine region, former Duchy of Cleves), Suriname, the Caribbean as well as in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

(b) To recommend that the secretariat continue to develop its relations further with the host country Government, the state of North Rhine Westphalia and the City of Bonn, and with private organizations in Germany in order to strengthen their support to the UNCCD

Next winter, it will be sixty years since an army crossed the Rhine River bringing death and destruction the longest such period since at least the late second century B.C., when the Cimbri and Teutones challenged the army of the Roman Consul Gaius Marius in the Rhone Valley.

By 1460, the confederates controlled most of the territory south and west of the Rhine to the Alps and the Jura mountains, particularly after victories against the Habsburgs (Battle of Sempach, Battle of Näfels), over Charles the Bold of Burgundy during the 1470s, and the success of the Swiss mercenaries.

Up, up, up.

Low Franconian, Low Frankish, sometimes equated with Istvaeonic, is a group of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium (Flanders), in the northern department of France, in western Germany (Lower Rhine), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia that originally descended from Old Frankish.