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    Gau (German: [ɡaʊ] ; Dutch: gouw [ɣʌu] ; West Frisian: gea [ɡɪə] or goa [ɡoə]) is a Germanic term for a region within a country, often a former or current...
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    Rhineland-Palatinate (see also: Palatinate region). The territory of Oldenburg Birkenfeld was also annexed to the Gau in 1934. With the return of the Saar Basin to...
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    Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia on 27 January 1941. The Gau included territory annexed by...
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  • börde. Gau (territory) – also gives the etymology and language history of Gäu Gäu – regions with the name Natural regions referred to as Gäu plateaus:...
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  • Look up GAU, Gau, gau, or gấu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gau or GAU may refer to: Gaugericus (c. 550–626), Bishop of Cambrai Gau Ming-Ho (born...
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    Hrodna (German: Garten) also became part of the Gau. After the war, the territory of the former Gau became part of the Russian SFSR exclave of Kaliningrad...
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    [ˈʃtɔʁmaʁn] ) was a gau which, alongside Holstein and Dithmarschen, was one of the three Northern Albingian Saxon gaus. The Gau of Stormarn lay in the...
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    Brandenburg. The Gau was dissolved in 1945, following Allied Soviet occupation of the area and Germany's formal surrender. After the war, the territory of the former...
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    Friesenfeld (category Former states and territories of Thuringia)
    The Friesenfeld was a Gau (territory), in modern-day north Thuringia and south Saxony-Anhalt in the area between Allstedt and Merseburg and which bordered...
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    The Gau Düsseldorf was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Düsseldorf region of the Prussian Rhine Province. Before that...
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  • Philippines Gau (territory), an administrative division formerly used in Germany (pluralized as Gaue in German, but often as gaus in English) Gaus Electronics...
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    The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...
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    Province of Hohenzollern (category States and territories established in 1850)
    placed under direct rule. The Hohenzollern Lands belonged to the Nazi Gau (territory) of Württemberg-Hohenzollern under Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich...
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    The Gau Westphalia-North (German: Gau Westfalen-Nord) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Free State of Lippe, the Free State...
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    the Nazi Party in that area. Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick was abolished after Germany's defeat in 1945. The territory after the war became part of Lower...
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    The Gau Essen was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the northern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province. Before that, from...
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    Zehntverzeichnis) is a list of the places and castles in the Friesenfeld Gau (territory) and in Hassegau, from which Hersfeld Abbey received tithes. The original...
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    annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, the Greater Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish Corridor), and the Regierungsbezirk West Prussia of Gau East Prussia...
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  • Thumbnail for Gau Bayreuth
    Gau Bayreuth (until June 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark, 'Bavarian Eastern March') was an administrative division of Nazi Germany formed by the 19 January...
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    The Gau Moselland, formed as Gau Koblenz-Trier in June 1931, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Prussian Rhine Province...
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  • may be an old spelling of the German surname Gau, which originated as a toponymic surname; see Gau (territory). Finally, it may be an Anglicisation of the...
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    The Gau Westphalia-South (German: Gau Westfalen-Süd) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Arnsberg Region in the southern part...
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    The Gau Main Franconia (German: Gau Mainfranken), formed as Gau Lower Franconia (German: Gau Unterfranken) on 1 March 1929 and renamed Gau Main Franconia...
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    The Gau Baden, renamed Gau Baden–Alsace (German: Gau Baden-Elsaß) in March 1941, was a de facto administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945...
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  • Papua New Guinea Nightmare (2000 film) (가위; Gawi), South Korean film Gau (territory) (Gothic: Gawi), Germanic term for a region Gawi, a dialect of the Mser...
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    The Territory of the Saar Basin (German: Saarbeckengebiet, Saarterritorium; French: Territoire du bassin de la Sarre) was a region occupied and governed...
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  • Thumbnail for Gau Swabia
    Gau Swabia (German: Gau Schwaben), formed on 1 October 1928, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Swabia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945. From...
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  • Thumbnail for Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria
    Gau Schwaben (Gau of Swabia) Gau München-Oberbayern (Gau of Munich–Upper Bavaria) Gau Mainfranken (Gau of Main–Franconia) Gau Bayerische Ostmark (Gau...
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    The Gau Berlin was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the German capital Berlin. Before that, from 1928 to 1933, it was the...
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    a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a Gau or Reichsgau. Gauleiter was the third-highest rank in the Nazi political...
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