Slesvig
Americannoun
noun
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What would such a government do about Nord Slesvig, which the allies took from Germany and restored to a grateful Denmark?
From Time Magazine Archive
This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Germany, whose future was on the sea, had not acquired Slesvig, would Kiel and the good Danish sailors she acquired with Slesvig, have been possible as a means of her aggrandisement?
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
And yet Denmark, in the province of Slesvig, has endured these things since 1864.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
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