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ZWEIBRUCKEN , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:Palatinate, on the Schwarzbach, and on the railway between See also:Germersheim and See also:Saarbrucken. Pop. (1905) 14,711. The town was the See also:capital of the former duchy of Zweibriicken, and the See also:Alexander-Kirche contains the tombs of the See also:dukes. The ducal See also:castle is now occupied by the See also:chief See also:court of the Palatinate. There is a See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:Catholic 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. See also:Weaving and See also:brewing and the manufacture of machinery, See also:chicory, cigars, See also:malt, boots, See also:furniture and See also:soap are the chief See also:industries.
Zweibrucken (" two See also:bridges ") is the Latin Bipontinum; it appears in See also:early documents also as Geminus Pons, and was called by the See also:French Deux-Ponts. The See also:independent territory was at first a countship, the See also:counts being descended from 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 I., youngest son of See also:Simon I., See also:count of Saarbrucken (d. 118o). This See also:line became See also:extinct on the See also:death of Count See also:Eberhard (1393), who in 1385 had sold See also:half his territory to the count See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine, and held the other half as his feudatory. See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis (d. 1489), son of See also:Stephen, count palatine of Zimmern-Veldenz, founded the line of the dukes of Zweibrucken, which became extinct in 1731, when the duchy passed to the See also:Birkenfeld See also:branch, whence it came under the sway of See also:Bavaria in 1799. At the See also:peace of See also:Luneville Zweibrucken was ceded to See also:France; on its See also:reunion with Germany in 1814 the greater See also:part of the territory was given to Bavaria, the See also:remainder to See also:Oldenburg and See also:Prussia. At the ducal See also:printing See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office at Zweibrucken the fine edition of the See also:classics known as the Bipontine See also:Editions was published (1799 sqq.).
See See also:Lehmann, Geschichte See also:des Herzogtums Zweibrucken (See also:Munich, 1867).
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