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
Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border.
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
In a word, the German influence, under the eyes of a Danish king and government, was driving out all the safeguards of Danish national life in Slesvig.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
Desiring to bring it under German domination, Uve Lornsen, a Frisian lawyer, proposed to make the Duchies of Slesvig and Holstein self-governing states, separated from Denmark, and entirely under German influence.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
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