Bavaria
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- proper noun
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Baviera
- The conservative politician from Bavaria admits he has a bee in his bonnet about Germany's gold reserves.
- Isabeau of Bavaria
- Lower Bavaria
- Bavaria (Germany)
Actually, in Munich a workers council forces the Last King of Bavaria Ludwig the Third to abdicate and a Bavarian Free State is declared.
- Actually, in Munich a workers council forces the Last King of Bavaria Ludwig the Third to abdicate and a Bavarian Free State is declared.
- His son Charles would get the north, his son Pepin would get Lombardy and Bavaria, and his son Louis would have Aquitaine.
- Heino is is a pretty big star in Bavaria.
- on Monday and then Monday night flight to Bavaria.
- You do have the OR in Austria and in Bavaria, and Rosemary Waldrop was born in Bavaria.
- And you look around in Bavaria or elsewhere, you tend to find that there are a lot of Jews in visible positions on the German left.
Examples
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Sylvania Gratz Lafont, born in Bavaria in 1842, died in the US in 1898.
Fiction book (2002) -
Visitors can experience a taste of Bavaria without having to travel overseas, convert currency, or speak another language.
Academic text (2000) -
Here in Bavaria they take good care of you
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So, tell me all about Bavaria.
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Their family owns the oldest brewery in Bavaria.
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"I've always been curious about Bavaria, the land of beer."
Fiction book (1992) -
In the short term, keeping industrial jobs in Bohemia could mean losing them in Bavaria.
Academic text (1994) -
Ulrike has now decided to become a nurse in a military hospital run by an order of nuns in Bavaria.
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The village I call Linden lies in the northwestern part of Bavaria, close to Hesse.
Academic text (1993) -
Here in Bavaria, they take good care of you.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bavaria comes from the old name Baiuvarii, which combines Boii, the name of a Celtic tribe, and varii meaning 'men' or 'people'. So Bavaria originally meant 'the land of the Boii people', which is why it is the name for that region in southern Germany.