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Rhineland

American  
[rahyn-land, -luhnd] / ˈraɪnˌlænd, -lənd /

noun

  1. that part of Germany W of the Rhine.

  2. Rhine Province.


Rhineland British  
/ ˈraɪnˌlænd, -lənd /

noun

  1. German name: Rheinland.  the region of Germany surrounding the Rhine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Rhineland Cultural  
  1. Picturesque region of Germany, along the Rhine River.


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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

“Ashkenazi Jews emerge in the Rhineland as migrants,” says Leonard Rutgers, a historian at Utrecht University and a co-author on the Cell paper.

From Science Magazine Nov. 30, 2022

On May 30, 1942, one thousand British planes attacked Cologne, Germany, leaving the Rhineland city in flames.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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