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

Course The aqueduct began at a spring in the area of Nettersheim in the Urft river valley.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 ).

Smiles on the Rhine

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

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.

1975 Commissioned by the Swiss Government to investigate suspect payments to the Northrop Corporation at the time Switzerland was to purchase fighter planes.

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.

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 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.

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

In 923 Henry crossed the Rhine twice.

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.

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.

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 river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

The Niger is the third longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo River.

It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.

The Reuss is a river in Switzerland.

The is located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

The Avon River is a river in Western Australia.

The Krishna River is the third longest river in central southern India, after the Ganges and the Godavari.

The longest river is the Cagayan River in northern Luzon.

The São Francisco () is a river in Brazil.

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.

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

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

River

Cetina () is a river in southern Croatia.

The , at long, is the third longest in Japan and the longest in Hokkaidō.

Erstein is a commune in the Bas Rhin department in the Alsace region in France.

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.

The Inn ( ) is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy.

Staaten River is a river in the Cape York Peninsula, Australia.

The James River is formed by the confluence of the Jackson River and the Cowpasture River.

The Belice (Sicilian Bèlici) is a river, long, of western Sicily.