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    Hesse or Hessia (German: Hessen [ˈhɛsn̩] ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden...
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    Hesse following the Empire's dissolution in 1806. Like many petty German states, the landgraviate comprised a number of disconnected pockets of land (exclaves)...
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    "Monica Hesse and 'American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land". niemanstoryboard.org. Retrieved July 17, 2018. "Monica Hesse". The Washington...
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    Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include...
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    the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen). It assumed the name Hesse und bei Rhein in 1816...
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    This is a list of monarchs of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively...
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    Hesse-Homburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and a sovereign member of the German Confederation. It was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622...
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    states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district),...
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    the southwest, and on South Hesse beyond the Rhine. The Rhenish-Hessian Hills along the Selz river, also called the "land of the thousand hills", reach...
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    Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (Georg Donatus Wilhelm Nikolaus Eduard Heinrich Karl, 8 November 1906 – 16 November 1937) was the first...
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    were Baden (until 1952), Bavaria (in German: Bayern), Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse (Hessen), Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)...
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    Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (24 December 1787 – 5 September 1867) was the first son of Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen...
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    Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (legally Moritz Friedrich Karl Emanuel Humbert Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen; 6 August 1926 – 23 May 2013) was the son of Prince...
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    of Hesse-Kassel (24 June 1532 – 25 August 1592), also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)...
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    modern Germany. However, Baden-Württemberg, southern Bavaria, southern Hesse and the western Rhineland had been incorporated into Roman provinces. Around...
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    Greater Hesse (German: Groß-Hessen) was the provisional name given for a section of German territory created by the United States military administration...
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    Louise of Hesse-Kassel (German: Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie, Danish: Louise Wilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie; 7 September...
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  • The following list sorts all cities in the German state of Hesse with a population of more than 20,000. As of December 31, 2017, 59 cities fulfill this...
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    Bischofsheim is a municipality in Groß-Gerau district in Hesse, Germany with a population of more than 13,000. Bischofsheim lies south of the Main and...
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    The civil flag of Hesse, Germany consists of a bicolor of a red top and a bottom white stripe, in the proportion 3:5. The state flag is similar, except...
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    Upper Hesse from 1308 and then Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1311 until his death. Otto was born in Marburg, a son of Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse and his...
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    provision until his death. Ludwig II initially decided on Lower Hesse and left Marburg and the land on the Lahn to Heinrich, where he ruled as Heinrich III....
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    Hesse (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Adolf von Hessen-Kassel; 26 November 1820 – 14 October 1884) was the only son of Wilhelm I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim...
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    Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (11 July 1722 – 21 June 1782) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was born in Darmstadt. He was the second son...
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  • area of land north of the River Main. The provincial capital and largest town of the rural provinces was the university town of Gießen. Upper Hesse lies...
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  • "Regensburg zieht Hesse an Land" (in German). kicker.de. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014. Uwe Hesse at fussballdaten.de (in German) Uwe Hesse at FuPa...
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    was doubly landlocked as it bordered the Electorate of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Hesse-Homburg, and Nassau. In the German Confederation there were...
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    The minister-president of Hesse (German: Ministerpräsident des Landes Hessen), also referred to as the premier or minister-president (also translated...
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  • boundary of East Hesse with North Hesse, Middle Hesse and South Hesse. In older sources, a landscape, roughly identical with the current East Hesse area, was...
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    Hessian (soldier) (category Hesse)
    mercenaries from other German states, but Hesse-Kassel employed only Landeskinder (literally "children of the land", or native men). The military was the...
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