In Gallo-Roman religion, Arvernus was an epithet of the Gaulish Mercury.

Although the name refers to the Arverni, in whose territory Mercury had at important sanctuary at the Puy-de-Dôme, all of the inscriptions to Mercury Arvernus are found farther away along the Rhenish frontier.

* Mercurius Arvernus, a combination of the Celtic Arvernus with Mercury.

Apollo Delphinios was a sea-god especially worshiped in Crete and in the islands, and his name indicates his connection with Delphi and the holy serpent Delphyne ( womb ).

The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.

Augustine's City of God was closely identified with the Church, the community that worshiped the Trinity.

He gives no precise indication of their geographical situation but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshiped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was located on " an island in the Ocean ".

It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis.

Like her mother and brother, who was widely worshiped at Troy, Artemis took the side of the Trojans.

As Aeginaea, she was worshiped in Sparta ; the name means either huntress of chamois, or the wielder of the javelin ().

Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria.

Several Biblical stories allude to the belief that the Canaanite gods all existed and possessed the most power in the lands that worshiped them or in their sacred objects ; their power was real and could be invoked by the people who patronised them.

According to this view, human society was formerly a matriarchy, with communities being egalitarian, pacifistic and focused on the worship of the Goddess ; such a society was subsequently overthrown by violent patriarchal hordes who worshiped male sky gods and who continued to rule through the form of Christianity.

Osiris was widely worshiped as Lord of the Dead until the suppression of the Egyptian religion during the Christian era.

She survived in Greek folklore as the consort of Dionysos, with whom she was worshiped in some local cults.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

" The result was a syncretistic religion, in which national groups worshiped the Hebrew god, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.

He was historically worshiped as the progenitor of their famous staff method by the monks themselves.

Further evidence includes the many female figurines unearthed in ancient Israel, supporting the view that Asherah functioned as a goddess and consort of Yahweh and was worshiped as the Queen of Heaven.

Davidson adds, on the other hand, that it is attested that the Germanic peoples worshiped their deities in open forest clearings and that a sky god was particularly connected with the oak tree, and therefore " a central tree was a natural symbol for them also ".

Their system of gods and goddesses was loose, there being certain deities which virtually every Gallic person worshiped, as well as tribal and household gods.

At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.

As a result of rises and falls in Arianism's influence after the First Council of Nicaea, Emperor Constantine I banished him from Alexandria to Trier in the Rhineland, but he was restored after the death of Constantine I by the emperor's son Constantine II.

During the Middle Ages, Anthony, along with Quirinus of Neuss, Cornelius and Hubertus, was venerated as one of the Four Holy Marshals ( Vier Marschälle Gottes ) in the Rhineland.

As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.

He held lay positions in, and was a member of, the Synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

" Goebbels asked rhetorically in a debate with Theodor Vahlen, Gauleiter ( regional party head ) of Pomerania, in the Rhineland party newspaper National-sozialistische Briefe ( National-Socialist Letters ), of which he was editor, in mid-1925.

Joachim had given Brahms a letter of introduction to Robert Schumann, and after a walking tour in the Rhineland, Brahms took the train to Düsseldorf, and was welcomed into the Schumann family on arrival there.

This incident spurred reprisal killings and sabotage across the Rhineland, and when Krupp held a large, public funeral for the workers, he was fined and jailed by the French.

The League was mostly silent in the face of major events leading to the Second World War, such as Hitler's re-militarization of the Rhineland, occupation of the Sudetenland and Anschluss of Austria, which had been forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles.

The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia.

After the Congress of Vienna, Prussia was awarded with the entire Rhineland, which included the Grand Duchy of Berg, the ecclesiastic electorates of Trier and Cologne, the free cities of Aachen and Cologne, and nearly a hundred small lordships and abbeys.

Frederick in the meantime was focused on restoring peace in the Rhineland, where he organized a magnificent celebration of the canonization of Charles the Great ( Charlemagne ) at Aachen, done under the authority of the antipope Paschal III.

After World War I, Wiesbaden fell under the Allied occupation of the Rhineland and was occupied by the French army in 1918.

He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his wife, Sophia of the Rhineland Palatinate.

“ Frederick Town ” was laid out by Daniel Dulany — a land speculator — in 1745 ; it was settled by a German immigrant party led by a young German Reformed schoolmaster from the Rhineland Palatinate named Johann Thomas Schley ( d. 1790 ), who came to the Maryland colony with his wife, Maria Winz.

Following the First World War of the early 20th century, the western part of Rhineland was occupied by Entente forces, then demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles.

In 1946, the Rhineland was divided into the newly-founded states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

In the Rhineland, he was also a patron saint of lovers.

Cornelius, along with Quirinus of Neuss, Hubertus and Anthony the Great, was venerated as one of the Four Holy Marshals in the Rhineland during the late Middle Ages.

One issue that had not changed was a dispute over the long running Eastern Frontier and control of the German province Rhineland.

The British ambassador reported in December 1918 on Clemenceau's views on the future of the Rhineland: " He said that the Rhine was a natural boundary of Gaul and Germany and that it ought to be made the German boundary now, the territory between the Rhine and the French frontier being made into an Independent State whose neutrality should be guaranteed by the great powers ".