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A historical region of southern Germany
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thuringia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
region in Germany, German Thüringen , named for the ancient Thoringi people.
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The Free State of Thuringia (; , ) is a federal state in central Germany . It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states. Most of Thuringia is within ...
Usage examples of thuringia.
The scene is laid in Nordhausen, a free city in Thuringia, where the Jews, living, as the deemed, in absolute security and peace, were caught up in the wave of persecution that swept over Europe at that time.
KPD laid elaborate plans to enter the left Social Democractic governments of Saxony and Thuringia, which were under serious threat from the central government.
A knightly minstrel, who has taken part in one of the tournaments of song which tradition says used to be held at the court of the Landgrave of Thuringia in the early part of the thirteenth century, has, by his song and bearing, won the heart of Elizabeth, niece of the Landgrave.
There was a Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia whose court was held in the Wartburg--that noble castle which in a later century gave shelter to Martin Luther while he endowed the German people with a reformed religion, their version of the Bible and a literary language.
Adelbert, Knight of Thuringia, was one of those who experienced the delights of the Cave of Venus, yet, unlike Tannhauser in the original legend, was saved at the last.
Barnhelm, coming from her estate in Thuringia, together with her lady in waiting and two men servants.
Where were you then, when the Major was quartered in Thuringia with us that winter?
Yet, if I remember rightly, when I was in Thuringia you were not with me.
He had Pappenheim, of course, but he also brought with him tangible proof that his new regime had secured at least one redoubtable ally: the United States in Thuringia, if not perhaps the entire Confederated Principalities of Europe.
Almost all of the immigrants who had come since then, since Thuringia and central Germany settled down, were looking for jobs.
Brothers who didn't have cousins, godsons, sons of godfathers, or in-laws of cousins all over central Thuringia.
Meroveus and his Franks, observing a prudent distance, and magnifying the opinion of their strength by the numerous fires which they kindled every night, continued to follow the rear of the Huns till they reached the confines of Thuringia.
Boniface, who preached the gospel among the savages of Hesse and Thuringia.
Although the Wettin family were natives of Thuringia and Saxony rather than of the Palatinate, there was little doubt in Bö.
For that matter, you can argue till the cows come home whether Suhl is really part of Franconia or Thuringia in the first place.