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1634: The Ram Rebellion

The initial main thread is called the "Western and North-Central Europe thread" (encompassing northern and western Germany, Denmark, England, France, the Low Countries, Sweden and the Baltic; the second plot line, encompassing events in Italy, Spain, the Mediterranean region, and France, the "South European thread", and this book can be considered the starting novel of the "South-Central/South-East thread" being set in southern Germany, Austria, Bavaria, and Bohemia.

1636: The Saxon Uprising

When Bavaria invades the Upper Palatinate the only soldiers available to meet them are the Thuringia-Franconia National Guard and one battalion of USE forces.

1995–96 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Forest lost 2-1, and any remaining hopes of a semi-final place were crushed in the second leg when the Bavarians thrashed Frank Clark's men 5-1 at the City Ground.

Agent Axis

During a battle in Bavaria the World's Finest Team manages to activate the chronal transponder near the Ravager, returning the heroes to their proper time and place with no memory of the prior events.

Anglo-Bavarian Brewery

It has been asserted that this was in reference to the employment, by the new owners, of some brewers from Bavaria in order to produce a German-style beer, and that what is now called lager was brewed from that year.

Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons

In Athens, Greece on December 24, 1839 she married Philipp Hartmann Veit von Würtzburg (1811–1897), Baron von Würtzburg, in Bavaria.

Anton Schlüter München

Anton Schlüter München (also spelled: Anton Schlueter Muenchen) was a German tractor manufacturer in the region of Munich, Bavaria.

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Nowadays, the only existing specimen of a Profi Trac 5000 TVL is possessed by a private person in Bavaria.

Armored Command

Armored Command is a 1961 World War II film directed by Byron Haskin filmed in Hohenfels, Bavaria but takes place in the Vosges Mountains during the Southern France campaign.

Bardonia, New York

Bardonia is named for the Bardon Brothers - John and the twins Phillip and Conrad - who came from Bavaria in 1849 and opened several businesses.

Bavarian

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

Charles Zeitler

Zeitler was born to a family of Bavarian immigrants in Clay Township, just north of South Bend, Indiana.

Counts of Castell

The family was mediatized in 1806 and 1815, however without loss of its equal-to-royal rank, its two states incorporated into Bavaria.

Cryptocephalus virens

These beetles can be found in Southern and Central Europe from Italian Alps and Bavaria to Southern Poland, Russia, Turkey, East Palearctic ecozone and the Near East.

Delaware Sängerbund

The Delaware Sängerbund Oktoberfest is named after the widely known festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria.

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There, the first Oktoberfest was celebrated as a wedding festival of the Bavarian crown prince Ludwig on October 12, 1810.

Dietramszell

Dietramszell is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany.

Driving Out a Devil

The play charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village.

English claims to the French throne

Maria Theresia, Princess of Modena and later Queen consort of Bavaria (20 November 1875 – 3 February 1919), his niece.

Ensdorf Abbey

Ensdorf Abbey (Kloster Ensdorf) was a house of the Benedictine Order located at Ensdorf in Bavaria in Germany.

Friedrich von Hermann

From the year 1836 he acted as inspector of technical instruction in Bavaria, and made frequent journeys to Berlin and Paris in order to study the methods there pursued.

Gau Bayreuth

Gau Bayreuth (until 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark (English: Bavarian Eastern March)) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

Gau Franconia

Gau Franconia (German: Gau Franken) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

Gau Mainfranken

The Gau Mainfranken (English: Gau Main-Franconia) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

George Conrad Hutzler Farm

George Conrad Hutzler was born in about 1822 and lived in a small village near Krumbach, Bavaria.

Graf Yoster

Although he lived in a castle in Bavaria (where especially in the beginning a great deal of the show was shot) he wouldn't have the slightest Bavarian accent and his appearance was as British as his Rolls Royce.

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia

The Bavarian government granted Olga the title of Countess of Hohenfelsen in 1904, but the marriage caused a scandal in the Russian Court.

Gustav Bischof

Karl Gustav Bischof (January 18, 1792 – November 30, 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria.

Heidenheim

Heidenheim, Bavaria, municipality in the Hahnenkamm, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, Bavaria, Germany

Hermann AVA

Stone Hill's cellars were constructed in 1847, the Hermanhoff Winery was founded in 1852 and in 1855, the Adam Puchta Winery was founded by immigrants from Oberkotzau, Bavaria who had struck gold during the California Gold Rush before returning to Hermann.

Historia naturalis palmarum

Their expedition was sponsored by the King of Bavaria, Maximilian I, with instructions to investigate natural history and tribal Indians.

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

There are no reliable records of the beginnings of the Jewish community; but it has been ascertained that between 1838 and 1844 a small number of Jews, mostly from Baden, Bavaria, and Württemberg, settled in and around Pittsburgh.

Hohenfels

Hohenfels, Bavaria municipality in Landkreis Neumarkt in Oberpfalz in Bavaria.

Hohneck

Hohneck, unincorporated community of Kansas, United States

Holašovice

The monastery gradually repopulated the village with settlers from Bavaria and Austria.

Hugh Lygon

Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Hutzler's Barn

George Johann Hutzler was born in about 1815 and lived in a small village near Krumbach, Bavaria.

Igrejinha

The most significant period for tourism is during Oktoberfest, a traditional Bavarian beer festival, which sold 186,000 tickets at its pavilions in 2005—at which 209,561 liters of beer were drunk.

Johann Nepomuk Krieger

Johann Nepomuk Krieger (4 February 1865, Unterwiesenbach – 10 February 1902, Sanremo) was a draftsman and selenographer.

Johann Stegner

From 19 March 1920 until the election on 7 November 1920, initially in an advisory capacity, he represented the Coburger Land with Hermann Mämpel and Hans Woldemar Schack in the Landtag of Bavaria.

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Johann Stegner (20 December 1866, Frohnlach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 7 January 1954, Coburg, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

John Eberhard Faber

John Eberhard Faber (sometimes Johann Eberhard Faber) (December 6, 1822 – March 2, 1879), was born in Stein, Bavaria, Germany.

John II, Duke of Bavaria

He was the third son of Stephen II and Elizabeth of Sicily.

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Duke John II of Bavaria-Munich (1341 – 1397), (German: Johann II, Herzog von Bayern-München), since 1375 Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

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Otto II, Duke of Bavaria

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John II was succeeded by his sons Ernest and William III who finally managed to enforce their sole rule over Bavaria-Munich against Stephen III.

Kampfbund

The purpose was to consolidate and streamline their agendas and also prepare to take advantage of the split between Bavaria and the central government.

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The Kampfbund ("Battle-league") was a league of patriotic fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s.

Kassel conversations

Translation: "Roman ("uualha") people are stupid, Bavarians are smart; there is little smartness in the Romans; they have more stupidity than smartness."

Kemnath

Kemnath is a small city in the district of Tirschenreuth, in Bavaria, Germany.

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht

It is set in the German Empire shortly before World War I and revolves around the court proceedings of the Königlich Bayrisches Amtsgericht in the fictional Bavarian small town Geisbach.

Kreisliga Bayern

The Kreisliga Bayern (English: District league Bavaria) was the highest association football league in the German Kingdom of Bavaria and, later, the state of Bavaria from 1909 to 1923.

Kurt Hellmann

Kurt Hellmann was born in Nürnberg, Bavaria, in May 12, 1922 where he attended primary school from 1927 to 1932 and the first year of the ‘Reformgymnasium’ before having to emigrate as a 10 year old boy with his parents and his elder brother to England in March 1933.

Landesstraße

In the free states of Bavaria and Saxony – but not, however, in the Free State of Thuringia – Landesstraßen are known as Staatsstraßen.

Langenfeld

Langenfeld, Bavaria, in the Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district of Mittelfranken, Bavaria

Langheim Abbey

Langheim Abbey was a well-known Cistercian monastery in Klosterlangheim, part of the town of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, in the Bishopric of Bamberg.

Lauter

Lauter, Bavaria, village in the district of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany

Lebia cruxminor

The species can be found in Irkutsk, Russia, and various German towns such as: Kulbach district of Bavaria, and Upper Franconia.

Leopold Feldmann

Leopold Feldmann (born Munich, Bavaria, 22 May 1802; died Vienna, 26 March 1882) was a German-Austrian dramatist.

Man on a Tightrope

Cernik, inspired by a recent spate of escapes from behind the Iron Curtain, has decided to escape over the border to Bavaria.

Marie d'Alençon

She married firstly in 1411, Peter d' Évreux, Infante of Navarre, Count of Mortain, and secondly on 1 October 1413, Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria–Ingolstadt.

Maurus Corker

On the accession of James II of England in 1685, Father Corker was released and kept at the court as resident ambassador of Prince-Bishop Ferdinand of Bavaria, the Elector of Cologne.

Michelin Guide

Guides were introduced for Algeria and Tunisia (1907); the Alps and the Rhine, covering northern Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria and the Netherlands (1908); Germany, Spain and Portugal (1910); the British Isles (1911); and "The Countries of the Sun" ("Les Pays du Soleil") covering northern Africa, southern Italy and Corsica (1911).

Mittersill castle

The first records known of the castle date to the 12th century while Pinzgau was under the control of the Duchy of Bavaria, when the Counts of Lechsgemünd (subsequently: Mittersill) decided to establish their family seat there.

Oberreichenbach

Oberreichenbach, Bavaria, a town in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bavaria

Patrick Bernard Malone

He was twice married: firstly to Mary Sabina Benkut of Bavaria, and secondly to Anetta Slater.

Phyllobrostis hartmanni

It is listed as in the endangered on the Red List of Bavaria.

Popstars – On Stage

Dancers and singers were sent to Füssen, Bavaria and took part in workshops to improve their dancing and singing skills.

Pradeeban Peter-Paul

When he left Germany in 1993 he was on the Bavarian provincial team and had won a junior doubles title.

Reichenbach Castle

Some outbuildings were built, such as the brewery, which was added to provide for the Bavarian post office workers, who worked for Fischerpost.

Rosenheim Poltergeist

The Rosenheim Poltergeist is the name given to claims of a poltergeist in Rosenheim in southern Bavaria in the late 1960s by German parapsychologist Hans Bender.

Seeta Devi

All three of these films were made through the collaboration of German film director Franz Osten and Indian actor-producer Himanshu Rai along with Bavarian company Emelka.

Sophie Amalie Lindenov

Her parents were Hans Lindenov, a nobleman of Bavarian origins who had been made a Knight of the Order of the Elephant in 1648 and was a member of the Danish Council of State, and Countess Elisabeth Augusta af Schleswig-Holstein, a morganatic daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway.

That's How You Know

As Giselle sings and dances through the park, she is joined by other people in the park including buskers, a steelband, elderly dancers, Bavarian dancers, and rollerbladers.

The Kiss of the Vampire

Gerald (Edward de Souza) and Marianne Harcourt (Jennifer Daniel), are a honeymooning couple in early 20th-century Bavaria who become caught up in a vampire cult led by Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) and his two children Carl (Barry Warren) and Sabena (Jacquie Wallis).

Thule Society

The Thule Society attracted about 250 followers in Munich and about 1,500 in greater Bavaria.

Wilhelmsdorf

Wilhelmsdorf, Bavaria, in the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim

Witch trial of Fuersteneck

The town of Fuersteneck, near Grafenau in Bavaria, Germany, was the location of a witch trial in 1703.

Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Churchill was given this palace in honour for his victories over the French and the Bavarians at Blenheim in 1704.


Al Gromer Khan

Né Alois Gromer, Al Gromer Khan was born on April 8, 1946 at Frauenzell (municipality Altusried/Allgäu) in alpine foothills of Bavaria between Lake Constance and Munich.

Albert Pudas

In 1936 Pudas coached the Port Arthur Bearcats who represented Canada in the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.

Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

Ambros Seelos

Ambros Seelos (born January 30, 1935, Töging am Inn, Bavaria, Germany), a German music composer, singer, arranger, conductor, beginning in the 1960s-2000s.

Anna Caroline Oury

Anna Caroline (Charlotte) de Belleville-Oury was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany.

Antoria

Some Antoria guitars may have been manufactured in Bavaria by Framus.

Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

When the streamlining Nazi Gleichschaltung did formally away with statehood of the German states and established a centralised dictatorship in 1934, Bavaria was not to hold diplomatic ties of its own any more.

Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria

Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (1589–1631), daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Inner Austria, and Maria Anna of Bavaria, wife of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Arzberg

Arzberg porcelain, a manufacturer of porcelain, originally located in Arzberg, Bavaria

Attic helmet

The closest surviving Imperial Roman helmet to the type illustrated in relief sculpture dates to the 2nd century AD, and was found in Bavaria.

Audi Tunnel

The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Bavarian Localbahn Society

The Bavarian Localbahn Society (Bayerischer Localbahnverein e.V. or BLV), with its headquarters in Tegernsee, is a society that is concerned with the history of the railways in Bavaria.

Bavarian pine vole

This rodent was previously known from only one location in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, which has since been altered by the construction of a hospital in the 1980s.

Bezirksliga Bayern

In its second season, the league started to incooperate clubs from the city of Ulm, Württemberg, which lays right across the border from Bavaria.

Counts of Andechs

The noble family originally resided in southwestern Bavaria at the castle of Ambras near Innsbruck, controlling the road to the March of Verona across the Brenner Pass, at Dießen am Ammersee and Wolfratshausen.

Duke in Bavaria

The members of the family used the title Duke or Duchess in Bavaria, with the style of Royal Highness.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Ensdorf

Ensdorf, Bavaria, a village in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany

Erhard Reuwich

In December 1486 a "Meister Erhard von Mainz" is recorded as installing stained-glass panels in the "Amtskellerei" in Amorbach in Bavaria; this could be him.

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (1828–1901) was a German lichenologist and taxonomist born in Ansbach, Bavaria.

Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

The Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, HLB), which was established in the Grand Duchy of Hesse recognized the importance of the HLB for the expansion of railway services in the Rhine-Main region, particularly to the province of Upper Hesse (an exclave of the Grand Duchy), from the Rhine-Main area to Bavaria and via the Kinzig valley to Bebra.

George, Duke of Bavaria

The most southern districts of Bavaria-Landshut Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Rattenberg passed to Emperor Maximilian and were united with Tyrol.

Giebelstadt Army Airfield

Giebelstadt Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located in Germany southwest of Giebelstadt (Bavaria); approximately 250 miles southwest of Berlin.

Homburg–Neunkirchen railway

Historically, the Homburg–Bexbach section was in Bavaria and was built as part of the Palatine Ludwig Railway.

Jock Hamilton-Baillie

As a result of his efforts, Hamilton-Baillie was moved to Oflag VII-D at Tittmoning, a medieval castle on an isolated plateau in Bavaria, Germany.

Johann Halbig

He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.

John James Maximilian Oertel

John James Maximilian Oertel (born at Ansbach, Bavaria, 27 April 1811; died at Jamaica, New York, 21 August 1882) was a German-American journalist.

Leeuwenhosen

Bavaria again distributed orange memorabilia in the Netherlands before the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, as is customary of breweries in the Netherlands.

Leonhard Päminger

Leonhard Päminger also Paminger and Panninger (Aschach an der Donau, 29 March 1495 - Passau 1567) was an Upper-Austrian born Lutheran theologian, poet and composer in Catholic Bavaria.

Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria

Louis IX (also known as Louis the Rich; 23 February 1417, Burghausen, Bavaria – 18 January 1479, Landshut), (German: Ludwig IX, Herzog von Bayern-Landshut) was Duke of Bavaria-Landshut from 1450.

Lower Bavaria

After the reunification in 1340 Bavaria was divided again in 1349, in 1353 Bavaria-Straubing and Bavaria-Landshut were created in Lower Bavaria.

Maria Mandl

In May 1945, Mandl fled from Mühldorf into the mountains of southern Bavaria to her birthplace of Münzkirchen, Austria.

Mathias Loras

His connections and influence in Europe had enabled him to secure necessary financial assistance from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith of Lyons, France, the Leopoldine Society of Vienna, Austria, and the Foreign Mission Society of Munich, Bavaria.

Seefeld

Seefeld, Bavaria, a town in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany

Sophie Charlotte

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847–1897), Duchess of Alençon and born Duchess in Bavaria

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.

Trimberg

Trimberg is a town in the Elfershausen municipality in Bavaria, Germany.

Viva Colonia

For example, during carnival and during Oktoberfest in Munich, Bavaria, the song remains essentially the same except "Viva Bavaria!" is substituted for "Viva Colonia!"

William III, Duke of Bavaria

After the extinction of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria-Straubing, counts of Holland and Hainaut, William and his brother Ernest struggled with their cousins Henry and Louis but finally received half of Bavaria-Straubing in 1429.