* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

After some initial success in his efforts to take possession, Albert was driven from Saxony, and also from his Northern march by Henry, and compelled to take refuge in south Germany.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

His position and the missionary activity of the church of Bremen allowed him to gather information on the history and the geography of Northern Germany.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

In the 12th century, bricks from Northern-Western Italy were re-introduced to Northern Germany, where an independent tradition evolved.

It was the consequence of this lengthy episode that a whole generation grew up in Germany and Northern Italy in an atmosphere of war, doubt and scepticism.

Customs of erecting decorated trees in wintertime can be traced to Christmas celebrations in Renaissance-era guilds in Northern Germany and Livonia.

* The Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany

The domination of Estonia after the Northern Crusades, from the 13th century to 1918 by Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Russia delayed indigenous literacy in Estonia.

Later, during the Continuation War, Finland declared " co-belligerency " with Nazi Germany, and allowed Northern Finland to be used as a German attack base.

Northern and some western parts of Greater Poland remained in Germany, where they formed much of the province of Posen-West Prussia ( 1922 – 1938 ), whose capital was Schneidemühl ( Piła ).

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

Hamburg is a major transport hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe.

Collectively known as the " Anglo-Saxons ", these were mainly Saxons from Northern Germany, and Angles and Jutes from the Jutland peninsula.

In the district of Groß-Buchholz the 282 metres high Telemax is located, which is the tallest building in Lower Saxony and the highest television tower in Northern Germany.

It is the largest Volksfest of its kind in Northern Germany.

In what is now Northern Germany horse head gables, or gable signs adorned with two rampant horse figures, were referred to as " Hengist and Hors " up until the late 19th century.

The East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians and " all those north of Humber " arrived from the region of Anglia ( a peninsula in Southern Schleswig, Northern Germany ) " which has ever since remained waste between the Jutes and Saxons ".

On farmhouses in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany, horse head gables were referred to as " Hengist and Hors " as late as around 1875.

File: Pferdeköpfe Dachschmuck. png | Sketch of horses ' heads carving on a farmhouse gable in Northern Germany

File: Pferdeköpfe Giebel. jpg | Horse head gables in Wedemark, Hannover, Northern Germany

File: Giebelschmuck Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Pferdeköpfe. JPG | Horse head gables in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Northern Germany

Strmiska notes that Hecate, conflated with the figure of Diana, appears in late antiquity and in the early medieval period as part of an " emerging legend complex " associated with gatherings of women, the moon, and witchcraft that eventually became established " in the area of Northern Italy, southern Germany, and the western Balkans.

Orange is sometimes a color of nationalism, such as in the Netherlands, in Israel with the Orange Camp or with Ulster Loyalists in Northern Ireland ; it is also a color of reform such as in Ukraine.

The densely populated areas of Northern Italy and the United Provinces ( the Netherlands ) were infamous for their high degree of fortification of cities.

The roots of speed skating date back over a millennium to Scandinavia, Northern Europe and the Netherlands, where the natives added bones to their shoes and used them to travel on frozen rivers, canals and lakes.

Category: 19th century painters from the Northern Netherlands

The Bremen-based Beluga Group claimed in 2009 to be the first Western company to attempt crossing the Northern Sea Route for shipping without assistance from icebreakers, cutting 4000 nautical miles off the journey between Ulsan, Korea and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

* May 23 – Battle of Heiligerlee: Troops under Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat a smaller loyalist force under the Duke of Arenberg in an attempt to invade the Northern Netherlands.

Gaul (,,,, ) was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine.

In general, Northern Europe, with the exception of Ireland and pockets of Britain and the Netherlands, turned Protestant.

** The Northern Netherlands ( Union of Utrecht ) proclaim their independence from Spain in the Act of Abjuration.

Although the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of Louis XIV, the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, including the former Spanish Netherlands ( now called the Austrian Netherlands, including most of modern Belgium ), the Duchy of Milan in Northern Italy, and Naples and Sardinia in Southern Italy.

The location on the banks of the river Rhine allowed Utrecht to become an important trade centre in the Northern Netherlands.

The Low Countries: History of the Northern and Southern Netherlands ( 1987 )

# The Northern Netherlands restored within its old borders and the Southern Netherlands would become a barrier state under the rule of a great power, like Austria.

# If the Southern Netherlands would stay ( partially ) French, the Northern Netherlands should be extended to the Nete River or probably the whole of Flanders.

# France within its old borders, the Northern Netherlands unified with the Southern Netherlands and all of German territories on the left bank of the Rhine and north of the Moselle and the old Duchy of Berg and the old Lands of Nassau on the right bank of the Rhine.

In the late 16th century, many painters from Flanders fled to the Northern Netherlands, for religious reasons and because the Netherlands were growing economically.

Although the Christian right is usually associated with the U. S., the movement has been a key factor in the politics of Canada, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Australia, among others.

It had been approved by the new States-General ( consisting of 55 members ) of the Northern Netherlands, but rejected by the majority of appointed electors ( 796 against 527 ) of the Southern Netherlands.