Rhineland
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The profusion of killing leads Mr. Winder to describe the contested Rhineland, across which so many rival armies have fought, as “a battlefield interrupted, every now and then, by a truce.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Hildegard is best known for the music she produced in her Rhineland German monastery and for the transcriptions of her luminous visions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Among those arrested were four people in Bavaria, 15 in North Rhine-Westphalia, and 10 in the southwestern German state of Rhineland Palatinate, and police seized potential evidence at dozens of locations including homes and offices.
From Reuters ● May 3, 2023
Each group shared the same genetic ancestry, dating back to a small founder population that most likely emigrated from Southern Europe and reached the German Rhineland at the turn of the first millennium.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
However, the reoccupation of the Rhineland had not come without some cost.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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