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Hohenzollern

a German noble family, the younger (Franconian) branch of which provided rulers of Brandenburg (1417--1701) and Prussia (1701--1918). The last kings of Prussia (1871--1918) were also emperors of Germany
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The court found that the castle was transferred to the administration not as the Hohenzollerns' private property but as a "special asset" of the royal family.
Caption: Hohenzollern Castle, above Hechingen, Germany, was built between 1846 and 1867.
The 23-year-old, from Cannock and a member of the Hednesford Territorials, was shot in the face, left shoulder and arm during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
On September 30,1922, he described for Toronto Star readers a violent mob that attempted to hack down one of the statues of the Kaiser along Cologne's Hohenzollern bridge; in that piece, Hemingway refers derisively to the ex-Kaiser by his civilian name, Wilhelm Hohenzollern (Dateline 274-275).
Steel tycoon Princess Viola von Hohenzollern sold 14th-century Killochan Castle, near Girvan, Ayrshire, last month to a Saudi businessman for more than PS2.2million.
With the disappearance of the state of which it had once been a focal point, this remarkable modernist behemoth became a victim of the will to cover the traces of a rejected past; the plan is to use the site for a reconstruction of the building the Palast succeeded, the Hohenzollern royal palace, which was built in the eighteenth century and extensively damaged during World War II.
The Prime Minister said the people of Pakistan and the government were looking forward to welcome princess Maja von Hohenzollern when she would arrive the country at the invitation of President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.
Bu unsurlar arasinda ozellikle istanbul'daki Alman askeri temsilcileri, Alman hanedan ailesi Hohenzollern, Alman Disisleri Bakanligi ve istanbul'daki Alman Buyukelciligi ile Osmanli sultanlari ile ust duzey devlet yetkilileri one cikmaktadir.
Born on October 25, 1921, a descendant of the German Hohenzollern dynasty, Michael reigned from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1940 to 1947 when he was banned from returning to his homeland for 45 years.
The Prussian Hohenzollern kingdom and the Austrian Habsburg empire had emerged as chief rivals, while "the third Germany" of smaller states was trying to maintain the old balance of powers.
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