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GELDERN , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in Rhenish See also:Prussia, on the Niers, 28 m. N. W. of See also:Dusseldorf, at the junction of See also:railways to See also:Wesel and See also:Cologne. Pop. (19o5) 6551. It has an Evangelical and two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches and a town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall with a See also:fine See also:council chamber. Its See also:industries include the manufacture of buttons, shoes, cigars and See also:soap. The town See also:dates from about 11oo and was See also:early an important fortified See also:place; until 1371 it was the See also:residence of the See also:counts and See also:dukes of See also:Gelderland. Having passed to See also:Spain, its fortifications were strengthened by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II., but they were razed by See also:Frederick the See also:Great, the town having been in the See also:possession of Prussia since 1703.
See Nettesheim, Geschichte der Stadt and See also:des Amtes Geldern (See also:Crefeld, 1863) ; Henrichs, Beitrage zur innern Geschichte der Stadt Geldern (Geldern, 1893) ; and Real, Chronik der Stadt and Umgegend von Geldern (Geldern, 1897).
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