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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

Germany’s Rhineland region was the source of the brass used to make many of the famous artworks called the Benin Bronzes, created in the West African kingdom of Benin, a study has found.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 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

The European floods, which began on Wednesday, have mainly hit the German states of Rhineland Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia as well as parts of Belgium.

From Reuters • Jul. 19, 2021

But the next year, in March 1936, Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland, the buffer zone between Germany and France.

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