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Teutoburg Forest, the Glossary

The Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburger Wald) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.^[1]

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Forests and woodlands of Germany
Forests and woodlands of Lower Saxony

Arminius

Arminius (18/17 BC–AD 21) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed.

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Bad Iburg

Bad Iburg (Westphalian: Bad Ibig) is a spa town in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.

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Bielefeld

Bielefeld is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Central Uplands

The Central UplandsDickinson (1964), p.18 ff.

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Cereal

A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Dörenberg

The Dörenberg is a hill,, in the Teutoburg Forest in the district of Osnabrück, in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Detmold

Detmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of.

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Diemel

The Diemel is a river in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Egge (Lower Saxon Hills)

The Egge Hills (Eggegebirge), or just the Egge (die Egge) is a range of forested hills, up to, in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Teutoburg Forest and Egge (Lower Saxon Hills) are Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Ems (river)

The Ems (Ems; Eems) is a river in northwestern Germany.

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Externsteine

The Externsteine is a distinctive sandstone rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg in the Lippe district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Hase

The Hase is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Hermannsdenkmal

Aerial view of the Hermannsdenkmal The Hermannsdenkmal (German for "Hermann Memorial") is a monument located southwest of Detmold in the district of Lippe (North Rhine-Westphalia), in Germany.

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Hermannsweg

The Hermannsweg is a long hiking trail which follows the ridge of the Teutoburg Forest, running from Rheine to Velmerstot in Germany.

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Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.

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Horn-Bad Meinberg

Horn-Bad Meinberg (Low German: Häoern-Möomag) is a German city in the Lippe district in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of the Teutoburg forest.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.

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Kaiser

Kaiser is the German word for "emperor".

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Kalkriese

Kalkriese is a village now administratively part of the city of Bramsche in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Lippe Uplands

The Lippe Uplands (Lipper Bergland,, or Lippisches Bergland) is a range of hills in Ostwestfalen-Lippe within the administrative district of Detmold in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state in northwestern Germany.

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Manchester Regiment

The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Nature park

A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected natural area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments.

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.

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Osnabrück

Osnabrück (Ossenbrügge; archaic Osnaburg) is a city in Lower Saxony in western Germany.

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Paderborn

Paderborn (Westphalian: Patterbuorn, also Paterboärn) is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district.

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Philipp Clüver

Philipp Clüver (also Klüwer, Cluwer, or Cluvier, Latinized as Philippus Cluverius and Philippi Cluverii) (1580 – 31 December 1622) was an Early Modern German geographer and historian.

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Ralph Elliott

Ralph Warren Victor Elliott, (born Rudolf W. H. V. Ehrenberg; 14 August 1921 – 24 June 2012) was a German-born Australian professor of English, and a runologist.

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Ravensberg Basin

The Ravensberg Basin (Ravensberger Mulde) or Ravensberg Hills (Ravensberger Hügelland) is a natural region in the governorate of Detmold (italic) in the northeastern part of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia; small elements also fall within the neighbouring state of Lower Saxony.

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Rheine

Rheine is a city in the district of Steinfurt in Westphalia, Germany.

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States of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states.

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Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.

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TERRA.vita Nature Park

The TERRA.vita Nature Park (Naturpark TERRA.vita) is located in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia and is divided into northern and southern areas.

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Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park

The Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park (Naturpark Teutoburger Wald / Eggegebirge) is a nature park founded in 1965 in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Teutons

The Teutons (Teutones, Teutoni, Τεύτονες) were an ancient northern European tribe mentioned by Roman authors.

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Velmerstot

The Velmerstot is the northernmost and highest hill in the Eggegebirge ridge in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Teutoburg Forest and Velmerstot are Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Werre

The Werre is a river in the Detmold region (Regierungsbezirk) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, left tributary of the Weser.

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Weser Uplands

The Weser Uplands (German: Weserbergland) is a hill region in Germany, between Hannoversch Münden and Porta Westfalica, along the river Weser.

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Westphalian Lowland

The Westphalian Lowland, also known as the Westphalian Basin is a flat landscape that mainly lies within the German region of Westphalia, although small areas also fall within North Rhine (in the extreme southwest) and in Lower Saxony (on the northern periphery).

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William I, German Emperor

William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutoburg_Forest

Also known as Osning, Saltus Teutoburgiensis, Teutenberg Forest, Teutoberg Forest, Teutoberger Wald, Teutobergerwald, Teutoborger Wald, Teutoburger Forest, Teutoburger Wald, Teutoburgian Forest.

Teutoburg Forest, the Glossary

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Forests and woodlands of Germany

Forests and woodlands of Lower Saxony

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