Westphalia
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8.8
- proper noun
- /wɛstˈfeɪliə/
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Westfalia
- Baade always considered himself a German and a European; he loved his native land and especially Westphalia, the region of his birth.
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Westphalia, Germany
- Rhine-Westphalia
Examples
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A few anomalous imperial practices persisted after 1648, and many elements of the system of sovereign states had appeared much earlier than Westphalia.
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Westphalia set new standards for each of sovereignty's three faces.
Academic text (1995) -
I have quite a few nice breweries around the corner here in North Rhine-Westphalia, too.
Blog text (19) -
Lothar Collatz was born on 6 July 1910 in Amsberg, Westphalia.
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Most pupils unaware of the past were from North Rhine-Westphalia—the region worst affected by bombing outside Berlin.
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In a broader historical perspective, however, in which the state becomes the legitimate polity at Westphalia or colonies attain independence in the 20th century, both internal and external sovereignty are at issue.
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Westphalia solidified cuius regio, euis religio as well.
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Baade always considered himself a German and a European; he loved his native land and especially Westphalia, the region of his birth.
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Ludwig von Vincke, the regional president of Westphalia, argued in 1808 that reform was impossible if the character of the nation determined its institutions.
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Hulsen was born in Munster in Westphalia, Germany, into a family of silversmiths and studied with his father from 1641 to 1647.
Compounds
- Formal
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9.8
A set of treaties signed in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War and made states independent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Westphalia comes from old German parts West- 'west' and -phalia a word for 'people' or 'land', so it originally meant 'western land'.