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- proper noun now historical The question of which state(s) possessed control over (which parts of)
Schleswig-Holstein .
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The issue was forced by the developments of the tangled Schleswig-Holstein Question (_q. v._), which led to the definitive breach between the two great German powers, to the campaign of 1866, and the collapse of Austria on the field of Koniggratz
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Denmark and the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 322, 323
Lord John Russell 1887
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