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Housing Units (2000): 411
Land area (2000): 1.314970 sq. miles (3.405756 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.314970 sq. miles (3.405756 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71130
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.163614 N, 95.434944 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51461
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Schleswig
Wikipedia
Schleswig may refer to
- Duchy of Schleswig, a region on the German/Danish border
- Northern Schleswig or South Jutland County, the Danish part of Schleswig
- Southern Schleswig or Sydslesvig, the German part of Schleswig
- Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, a city in Germany
- Schleswig, Iowa, a city in the United States
- Schleswig, Wisconsin, a city in the United States
Usage examples of "schleswig".
Both Germany and Denmark claimed Schleswig and Holstein, and the people living there were forever arguing about who they should belong to.
It, like Schleswig and Holstein, has ties both with Germany and Denmark.
You know that Strackenz and Schleswig and Holstein are bitterly divided between Dane and German.
Like Schleswig and Holstein, it is buried in the German empire that Otto Bismarck built.
Eider Danes, a faction who wished to make Schleswig Danish as far as the River Eider.
With Austria defeated as a rival, Bismarck by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 united Germany minus Austria, and Schleswig and Holstein became part of the German Empire.
But the Germans in Holstein were very loud in their abuse of the Danes and the Danes in Schleswig made a great ado of their Danishness, and all Europe was discussing the problem and German Mannerchors and Turnvereins listened to sentimental speeches about the ``lost brethren'' and the different chancelleries were trying to discover what it was all about, when Prussia mobilised her armies to ``save the lost provinces.