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Westphalia

Westphalia

1 9.9
A short-lived kingdom in central Germany created by Napoleon
  • proper noun
  • /wɛstˈfeɪliə/
translation icon : Reino de Westfalia
  • After the fall of the Kingdom of Westphalia, it was integrated back into the territories of Prussia.

Examples

  • Signore, with bounteous pleasure, I, Mercurio Cavaldi, present to you the renowned, the legendary, the General Vavarin Delatombe, the military commander of the kingdom of Westphalia, formerly known as...

    The Brothers Grimm (2005)

  • Napoleon established the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 to serve as a satellite state of his empire.

  • The most populous West German state, North Rhine-Westphalia, alone has a population about as large as all of former East Germany.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The brief history of the Kingdom of Westphalia includes its establishment by Napoleon during the early 19th century.

Compounds

Peace of Westphalia
  • Formal
1 9.8

A set of treaties signed in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War and made states independent

Surface Forms

Westphalia main

Etymology

Westphalia was used as the name of a short-lived kingdom because rulers took the region's name for their state; the parts West- 'west' and -phalia 'people' or 'land' show it meant the 'land in the west'.