duchies came into existence at the end of the Early Middle Ages within the Holy Roman Empire and were thought to have been continuations of earlier tribal lands...

Catholic Churches which celebrate the pre-1955 Holy Week. In the ordinary form of the Roman Rite the readings on Holy Wednesday are Isaiah 50.4–9a and Matthew...

Habsburg monarchy for over five centuries (1466–1918) and part of the Holy Roman Empire for nine centuries, many of the words are of German and Hungarian...

disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire it became independent as a Kingdom. The complicated political history of the Holy Roman Empire during Middle Ages...

originally spoke Germanic languages, quickly adopted late Roman culture and the Vulgar Latin dialects of the peninsula and over the next 300 years totally...

span the duration of the Holy Roman Empire. The 19th and 20th centuries saw the rise of Standard German and a decrease of dialectal variety. The earliest...

claimed to be the Roman Empire's successor. The Holy Roman Empire was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman emperor. The Russian...

imperial Roman river fort, the city has been the political, economic and cultural centre of the surrounding region. Later, under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire...

Duchy of Oświęcim became a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Bohemia within the Holy Roman Empire. In the 15th century, Jan Długosz lists the settlement in the diocese...

to the rites of the Roman Church; seven penitentiary psalms; Offices of the Holy Cross; Offices for the dead; Offices of the Holy Spirit as well as numerous...

Polabian Slavs like Obodrites and Veleti came under the domination of the Holy Roman Empire and were strongly Germanized. The Bohemians established the Duchy...

living within the Holy Roman Empire. However, variants of the same term were also used in the Low Countries, for the related dialects of what is still...

of lamb typical of the Roman cuisine. It is a product protected by the European Union with the PGI mark. In Romanesco dialect, the offspring of the sheep...

German dialects spoken in north-eastern Germany as well as by minorities in northern Poland. Together with West Low German dialects, it forms a dialect continuum...

Heritage Site. Originally a county, it was elevated to a margravate of the Holy Roman Empire under Count Aleramo in 961, following the transition of power in...

borders of Roman Syria. Since Aramaic was used by various Middle Eastern peoples, having several variants (dialects), this specific dialect that originated...

Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and...

the Holy Land, 634–1800. Arc Humanity Press. ISBN 978-1-64189-222-3. OCLC 1310046222. Yizhar Hirschfeld, Katharina Galor, ‘New Excavations in Roman, Byzantine...

16th century, Holland proper was a unified political region within the Holy Roman Empire as a county ruled by the counts of Holland. By the 17th century...

well as holy men and women, attracted cult veneration, sometimes very soon after their death. A great number of locally venerated Gallo-Roman and Merovingian...

branches of the family were raised to the rank of principalities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1744 and 1764 respectively; in 1806 they lost their independence...

The Holy Grail (French: Saint Graal, Breton: Graal Santel, Welsh: Greal Sanctaidd, Cornish: Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian...

Arabs and speak Levantine Arabic, a dialect of Arabic descended from Hejazi Arabic and pre-Islamic Arabic dialects of Syria, with much influence from Western...

feudal secular and ecclesiastical lordships, a common process in the Holy Roman Empire. Alsace experienced great prosperity during the 12th and 13th centuries...

Sikh holy scripture Guru Granth Sahib. It is different from the various dialects of Punjabi that exist today. Vedic & Classical Sanskrit, the dialects of...

dialect Byala Slatina-Pleven dialect Southwestern Vratsa dialect Botevgrad dialect Ihtiman dialect Samokov dialect Elin Pelin dialect Sofia dialect (in...

of Germans of the Bavaria region, a state within Germany. The group's dialect or speech is known as the Bavarian language, native to Altbayern ("Old...

can be thought of as either a continuation of, or a dialect heavily based on, the Florentine dialect of Tuscan. The indigenous Romance languages of Italy...

German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France...

century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC), Roman Empire (27 BC– 395 AD), and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the...