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The Ems was known to several ancient authors: Pliny the Elder in Natural History ( 4. 14 ), Tacitus in the Annals ( Book 1 ), Pomponius Mela ( 3. 3 ), Strabo and Ptolemy, Geography ( 2. 10 ).
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He left Rome on 27 February 1782, and, though magnificently received by the Emperor, his mission proved a fiasco ; he was, however, able a few years later to curb those German archbishops who, in 1786 at the Congress of Ems, had shown a tendency towards independence.
France was provoked by the Ems Dispatch into the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 71 ), and was defeated by the Kingdom of Prussia and other German states.
The village was named after Emden, Germany due to the large number of residents who immigrated to the area from villages along the River Ems
The region between the rivers Ems and Weser was inhabited by the Chauci, who were partly displaced by Frisian expansion after about 500, and were later partially absorbed into the Frisian society.
The first proven historical event was the arrival of a Roman fleet under Drusus in 12 BC ; the ships sailed into the course of the Ems river and returned.
Originally the city was situated at a meander near the mouth of the river Leda into the Ems, which is still the center of the town today.
In July 1870, when the candidature of the prince of Hohenzollern for the throne of Spain became known, Benedetti was instructed by the duc de Gramont to present to the king of Prussia, who was then at Ems,
The actual dispatch was an internal message from the Prussian King's vacationing site to Bismarck in Berlin, reporting demands made by the French ambassador ; it was Bismarck's released statement to the press that became known as Ems Dispatch.
On 13 July 1870, King Wilhelm I of Prussia, on his morning stroll in the Kurpark in Ems, was waylaid by Count Vincent Benedetti, the French ambassador to Prussia since 1864.
Their homeland was originally around the middle of the river Ems, which flows into the North Sea, at the Dutch-German border.
It has been transmitted in numerous manuscripts and also in a Latin translation (" Fridangi Discretio ") and was quoted by contemporary authors, including Hugo von Trimberg and Rudolf von Ems.
The portion of the country bordering on the North Sea, called Frisia, was situated within the provinces of North Holland, Friesland and Groningen, and in Germany to the River Ems.
" The islands ' annual endurance challenge race, involving running, mountain biking and windsurfing from Cap Em to the German immigrant village of Ems in the Caissa Inferiore ( popularly known as the Two Em Dash ), now attracts international participants, and it has been some years since it was won by a Serriffean athlete.
Sanctions introduced by the Russian government in 1876 ( Ems ukaz ) severely restricting the use of Ukrainian language which also restricted the use of the bandura on the concert stage as virtually all of the repertoire was sung in Ukrainian.
Frankforce was then assigned to support the British Guards Armoured Division in the area around the Dortmund – Ems Canal.
All that remains of his works is a fragment preserved in the Suasoria of the rhetorician Seneca the Elder, from a description of the voyage of Germanicus ( AD 16 ) through the river Ems to the Northern Ocean, when he was overtaken by the storm described by Tacitus.
He got an invitation from the Russian Tsarina and performed at a court-concert in Ems, but this was his only concert during his stay in the Rhineland.
This also gave the Republic a strategic interest in the Ems River valley, which was reinforced during the stadtholders ' large offensive of 1597.
The Ems Ukaz, or Ems Ukase (, Emskiy ukaz ;, Ems ’ kyy ukaz ), was a secret decree ( ukaz ) of Tsar Alexander II of Russia issued in 1876, banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print, with the exception of reprinting of old documents.
Ems and known
More recently Lingen is known for its offshore-and nuclear industry ( nuclear power plants ), but also for its beautiful nature alongside the river Ems.
Ems and several
* " Ems ", plural of em with several meanings including " em " a unit of measure in typography
In the years 15 and 16, Germanicus carried out several fleet operations along the rivers Rhine and Ems, without permanent results due to grim Germanic resistance and a disastrous storm.
Ems and ancient
The Chauci (, and identical or similar in other regional modern languages ) were an ancient Germanic tribe living in the low-lying region between the Rivers Ems and Elbe, on both sides of the Weser and ranging as far inland as the upper Weser.
Ems and authors
Another epic of the High Middle Ages is Herzog Ernst ; other authors include Konrad von Würzburg, Rudolf von Ems, and Ulrich von Türheim.
Ems and Natural
Natural gas and oil drilling continue, however, and the presence of the Ems, Weser and Elbe estuaries ; while ship traffic causes tension between wildlife protection and economic influences.
Ems and 4
Second Army drove straight across the North German plain, reaching the Ems on 1 April and the Weser on 4 April.
* July 4 – A force of six German Navy airships ( five Zeppelins and a Schütte-Lanz ) sets out to attack a Royal Navy force of light cruisers, destroyers, and the seaplane tender HMS Engadine operating in the German Bight to conduct an aerial reconnaissance of the Ems estuary and Borkum and intercept reacting German airships.
Ems and .
Bad Ems is in Rhineland-Palatinate, on the northwestern boundary of Alemannic settlement, where Frankish influence would have been strongest.
The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.
File: Emsworth-geograph. org. uk-19415. jpg | Mouth of the River Ems from Slipper Mill Pond
To provoke France into declaring war with Prussia, Bismarck published the Ems Dispatch, a carefully edited version of a conversation between King Wilhelm and the French ambassador to Prussia, Count Benedetti.
Emden is a small north German community near the Dutch border, where the Ems River flows into the North Sea.
* July 13 – The Ems Dispatch serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France.
* Rheine is founded on the Ems River.
The most important rivers flowing at least partially through North Rhine-Westphalia include: the Rhine, the Ruhr, the Ems, the Lippe, and the Weser.
The public release of the Ems Dispatch, which played up alleged insults between the Prussian king and the French ambassador, inflamed public opinion on both sides.
Releasing the Ems Telegram to the public, Bismarck made it sound as if the king had treated the French envoy in a demeaning fashion.
Some take the name Chasuarii to mean " dwellers on the Hase ", a tributary to the Ems.
A following ban on Ukrainian books led to Alexander II's secret Ems Ukaz, which prohibited publication and importation of most Ukrainian-language books, public performances and lectures, and even the printing of Ukrainian texts accompanying musical scores.
He builds the pontes longi over the marshes between the Rhine and the Ems.
Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.
The Chauci originally centered on the Weser and Elbe, but in c. AD 58 they expanded westward to the River Ems by expelling the neighboring Ampsivarii, whereby they gained a border with the Frisians to the west.
Many years later, c. AD 58, the Chauci seized an opportunity to expel the Ampsivarii and occupy their lands at the mouth of the River Ems, whereby they gained a border with the Frisians to the west.
Thus, its discharge is, for example, comparable to that of the Ems river in Northern Germany or the Thames river in the United Kingdom.
It is situated on the left bank of the river Ems estuary, which forms the border with Germany.
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