Hohenzollern
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- proper noun
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Hohenzollern
- The Hotel Kaiserhof, the British Embassy, the Cafe Hohenzollern, and the gymnasium of the barracks of the 2nd Ulans.
- Hapsburg and Hohenzollern
Examples
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(I raise this comment because a parishioner, Zeldamena Maria Theresa von Hohenzollern, lived in a parish where I served decades back.
Blog text (31) -
Come 1933, they had left town rather suddenly, and the place became the property of a cadet branch of the former royal family, the Hohenzollern-Emden, named for WWI naval heroics.
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History will remember this as the great retreat from the Cafe Hohenzollern.
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A descendant of the Hohenzollern royal family, she demanded that her host be from the priest's host.
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The Hohenzollern Castle at Sigmaringen and the Zornhof Mansion have dominion over their fiefs and are centers from which their dominion is enforced.
Academic text (1993) -
Before World War I, four dynasties—the Hapsburg, the Hohenzollern, the Ottoman, and the Romanov—had governed central and eastern Europe.
Academic text (2006) -
The Hohenzollern family has a rich history tied to the German Empire and its rulers.
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Many important events in European history were influenced by the Hohenzollern dynasty.
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The legacy of the Hohenzollern family can still be seen in modern Germany.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hohenzollern comes from the name of a castle and family in Germany: hohen means 'high' and Zollern was the place or family name. So the name brings to mind a 'high' castle on a hill, and that's why it became the name of the noble family that ruled Brandenburg, Prussia and later the German Empire.