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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former kingdom of western Europe west of the Rhine River. Created in the partition of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, Lotharingia was split in the 10th century into the duchies of Lower Lotharingia (in the present-day Low Countries and northwest Germany) and Upper Lotharingia (present-day Lorraine).
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The middle part, called Lotharingia, soon broke up, and was finally absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire in the beginning of the 10th century.
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The middle part, called Lotharingia, soon broke up, and was finally absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire in the beginning of the 10th century.
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"Lotharingia" which did not exist prior to 855, the mention of the musical chant written on four lines, a custom which does not date back further than 1022, and finally the silence of all the writers of the ninth and tenth centuries regarding this so-called book of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Arnor eventually broke up into three separate principalities, just as the empire of the Franks (theoretically a revival of the Western Roman Empire) broke up into the three realms of Neustria, Austrasia, and Lotharingia.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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At Lothair I's death, his lands were divided as follows among his sons: Louis II received Italy; Charles (d. 863), the newly formed kingdom of Provence (centered around the city of Arles); and Lothair II, the inchoate aggregate (from Frisia to the Alps and from the Rhine to Scheldt) which began to be called Lotharii regnum or Lotharingia (modern Lorraine).
795-96 2001
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The provinces of the Low Countries (so called because much of the land lies below sea level), originally inhabited by Batavians and other Germanic tribes, had formed a part of the empire of Charlemagne and, after the treaty of Mersen (870), belonged in large part to Germany, forming a dependency of the kingdom of Lotharingia.
c. The Netherlands 2001
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A second reforming monastic impulse, springing from Gorze (founded 933) in Lotharingia (modern Lorraine) exercised an influence in Germany and central Europe.
983 2001
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During World War II, he was already envisioning a modern Lotharingia—as the middle of three kingdoms created by Charlemagne's grandsons had been called a thousand years earlier.
The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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Though fond of recalling as precedents both the ancient Burgundian kingdom and early medieval Lotharingia, they were unable to secure royal status for themselves, in spite of several attempts by both Philip the Good and Charles.
The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good Edward A. Tabri 1990
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Duchess of Burgundy and Lotharingia, of Brabant and Limbourg, of
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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