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Definition: Rhine Province from Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary

Former province of Prussia; ✽ Koblenz; formed 1824 from Prussian territories on right and left banks of Rhine; after WWII absorbed by West German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate (qq.v.).


Rhine Province

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ger. Rheinprovinz , former province of Prussia, W Germany. The province was also known as Rhenish Prussia and as the Rhineland . The northern section of the former province (which contained part of the industrial Ruhr district) is now included in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, and the southern section (with its famous wine districts along the Moselle and Rhine rivers) is in Rhineland-Palatinate. The province bordered in the W on the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg and in the S on France. Koblenz (the former capital), Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, and Wuppertal were among the chief cities. The region is traversed by the Rhine, Moselle, and Wupper rivers and by the lower course of the Ruhr. The Rhenish Slate Mts. are in the south. After the breakup (11th cent.) of the duchy of Lower Lorraine (see Lotharingia ), of which the area was a part, the region split into more than 100 ecclesiastic and secular fiefs; Aachen and Cologne became free imperial cities. Chief among the…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ger. Rheinprovinz , former province of Prussia, W Germany. The province was also known as Rhenish Prussia and as the Rhineland . The northern section of the former province (which contained part of the industrial Ruhr district) is now included in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, and the southern…
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Full text Article North Rhine–Westphalia

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(nôrth rīn-wĕstfāl'yӘ), Ger. Nordrhein-Westfalen (nôrt'rīn-vĕst´´fä'lӘn), state (1994 pop. 17,759,000), 13,111 sq mi (33,957 sq km), W central Germany. Düsseldorf is the capital. The state is bounded by Belgium and the Netherlands in the west, Lower Saxony in the north and east, Hesse in the…
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Full text Article Feldhofer Grotto ‡

From Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
Archaeological site found in 1856 at a limestone mine in the Neander gorge, Rhine province near Düsseldorf, Germany, dated to an estimated 100-30 kya ; only hominid remains were recovered. A skull cap (1033-1234 cm 3 , but 1525 cm 3 by another estimate) and 13 postcranial bones (the species' type…
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Full text Article Rhineland-Palatinate

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(rīn'lănd pӘlăt'ĭnĭt´´), Ger. Rheinland-Pfalz , state (1994 pop. 3,926,000), 7,658 sq mi (19,834 sq km), W Germany. Mainz is the capital. The state was formed in 1946 by the merger of the Rhenish Palatinate , Rhenish Hesse, the southern portion of the former Rhine Province of Prussia (including…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Administrative region (German Land ) in southwest Germany, bordered to the north by North Rhine-Westphalia, to the east by Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, to the south by France, to the southwest by the Saarland, and to the west by Luxembourg and Belgium; area 19,847 sq km/7,663 sq mi; population (2003…
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Full text Article Rhineland

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(rīn'lănd´´), Ger. Rheinland , region of W Germany, along the Rhine River. The term is sometimes used to designate only the former Rhine Province of Prussia, but in its general meaning it also includes the Rhenish Palatinate , Rhenish and S Hesse , and W Baden . (For a description, see Rhine .) …
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Full text Article North Rhine-Westphalia

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Administrative region (German Land ) in northwestern Germany, bordered to the north and northeast by Lower Saxony, to the east by Hesse, to the south by the Rhineland-Palatinate, and to the west by Belgium and the Netherlands; area 34,079 sq km/13,158 sq mi; population (2003 est) 17,986,700. A…
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