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BOPPARD , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Rhine, 12 M. S. of See also:Coblenz on the See also:main See also:line to See also:Cologne. Pop. (1900) 58o6. It is an old town still partly surrounded by See also:medieval walls, and its most noteworthy buildings are the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church (12th and 13th centuries); the Carmelite church (1318), the former See also:castle, now used for administrative offices; the Evangelical church (1851, enlarged in 1887); and the former See also:Benedictine monastery of the See also:Marienberg, founded 1123 and since 1839 a hydropathic See also:establishment, crowning a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill See also:loo ft. above the Rhine. Boppard is a favourite tourist centre, and being less pent in by hills than many other places in this See also:part of the picturesque See also:gorge of the Rhine, has in See also:modern times become a residential town. It has some comparatively insignificant See also:industries, such as tanning and See also:tobacco manufacture; its See also:direct See also:trade is in See also:wine and See also:fruit.
Boppard (Baudobriga) was founded by the See also:Romans; under the Merovingian See also:dynasty it became a royal See also:residence. During the See also:middle ages it was a considerable centre of See also:commerce and See also:shipping, and under the See also:Hohenstaufen emperors was raised to the See also:rank of a See also:free imperial See also:city. In 1312, however, the See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VII. pledged the town to his See also:brother See also:Baldwin, See also:archbishop-elector of See also:Trier, and it remained in the See also:possession of the See also:electors until it was absorbed by See also:France during the Revolutionary See also:epoch. It was assigned by the See also:congress of See also:Vienna in 1815 to See also:Prussia.
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