The rest of that people stayed at the centre of the Angle homeland in the northeastern portion of the modern German Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Jutland Peninsula.

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.

In addition, there is a small community of Danish speakers in Southern Schleswig, the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, where it is an officially recognised regional language, just as German is north of the border.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

The German territories became part of Austrasia ( meaning " eastern land "), the northeastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks.

On 1 September 1939, the German invasion of its agreed upon portion of Poland started World War II.

In the German-speaking states Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ).

* Louis the German received the eastern portion.

The " Sermon on Faith ", a portion of the Catechism, is available in modern Slovene, English, German and Esperanto.

Opposing the landings was the German 352nd Infantry Division, a large portion of whom were teenagers, though they were supplemented by veterans who had fought on the Eastern Front.

The commanding officer of one of the assaulting battalions requested that the artillery leave a portion of German trench undamaged.

Persistent attacks eventually forced the German troops holding the south-western portion of Hill 145 to withdraw, but only after they had run out of ammunition, mortar rounds and grenades.

A large portion of ethnic Germans from Rybnik eventually settled in the West German city of Dorsten ( District of Recklinghausen ), which eventually became one of Rybnik's twin towns in 1994.

The portion of land that Beasley had purchased was remote but it was of great interest to German Mennonite farming families from Pennsylvania.

The Soviets ceded the portion to the east of the Oder-Neisse line ( light beige ) to Poland, while a portion of the isolated easternmost section of German East Prussia, Königsberg, was annexed directly into the USSR

At the end of World War II, a portion of Tagus Ranch served as a German POW camp.

Combined with a portion of Bethel separated by the Androscoggin River, it then became Hanover, named by its German settlers for the House of Hanover.

A significant number of German immigrants settled in the southern portion of the township, centered around section 33.

The northernmost portion of the township was originally settled by Norwegian immigrants, while the balance was originally settled by German immigrants.

He knew most the people around the area, the money issues had settled down by then, a good portion of the English and French settlers had sold out to the German population that was immigrating into the area.

The following day, Wellington's King's German Legion ( KGL ) heavy dragoons performed the astounding feat of " breaking a square " and overrunning a portion of the French rear guard in the Battle of Garcia Hernandez.

On 30 September 1993, most of Hahn Air Base was turned over to civil German authorities, the USAF retaining a small portion as a communications site.

Sometimes it went as far as being a conditional exchange as this old ( and today outdated ) German formula shows: ' I give you this ring as a sign of the marriage which has been promised between us, provided your father gives with you a marriage portion of 1000 Reichsthalers '.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

The former princely state became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, and most of the territory of the former state, including the town of Ajaigarh, became part of Panna District, with a smaller portion going to Chhatarpur District.

Ecuador continues to contest the boundary with Peru, which was established by the Rio Protocol of 1942 and ceded to Peru a large portion of territory east of the Andes.

About 70 % of the country's total territory is suitable for agriculture ; of this portion, 72 % is arable land.

About 83 % of the country's total territory is suitable for cultivation ; of this portion, 75 % ( around 50 % of the country's area ) is covered by arable land, which is an outstanding ratio compared to other EU countries.

The portion of Oregon territory acquired by the United States later formed the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and parts of the states of Montana and Wyoming.

Constantius II, Constans I, and Constantine II were proclaimed joint emperors, each ruling a portion of Roman territory.

In the new bill the territory of Nebraska was extended north all the way to the 49th parallel, and any decisions on slavery were to be made " when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.

The traditional territories of the Musqueam and Tsleil ' waututh lie completely within the region ; the southern portion of Skwxwu7mesh ( Squamish ) traditional territory is also in the region.

Morocco assumed control over the northern two-thirds of the territory and conceded the remaining portion in the south to Mauritania.

From 1904 until 1975, Spain occupied the entire territory, which is divided into a northern portion, the Saguia el-Hamra, and a southern two-thirds, known as Río de Oro.

Morocco subsequently built the Moroccan Wall, a network of fortified berms around the largest portion of Western Sahara and has since asserted administrative control over that territory.

The southern part of the territory ( most of the mainland portion ) has a subarctic climate while the islands and northern coast have a polar climate.

Before 1841, the territory roughly corresponding to Southern Ontario in Canada belonged to the British colony of the Province of Upper Canada, while the southern portion of Quebec and the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador belonged to the colony of the Province of Lower Canada ( until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the colony of Newfoundland ).

Rhys's father, Gruffydd ap Rhys, was eventually able to become ruler of a small portion, and more territory was won back by Rhys's older brothers after Gruffydd's death.

* Filistin ( Palestine ), consisting of Judaea, Samaria and a portion of the territory east of Jordan ; its capital was Ramleh, Jerusalem ranking next.

Meanwhile Austrian Silesia, the small portion of Silesia retained by Austria after the Silesian Wars, was mostly awarded to the new Czechoslovakia ( becoming known as Czech Silesia ), although most of Cieszyn and territory to the east of it went to Poland ( see Zaolzie ).

Except for a relatively small portion of its territory along the Syrian border that is a continuation of the Arabian Platform, Turkey geologically is part of the great Alpide belt that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Himalaya Mountains.

The position of the Holy Roman Emperor was mainly titular, but the emperors, from the House of Habsburg, also directly ruled a large portion of Imperial territory ( the Archduchy of Austria, as well as Kingdom of Bohemia and Kingdom of Hungary ).

Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas and his formal Army, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979, with Morocco moving to annex that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control over the majority of the territory.

The Romanian royal court, army and administration were subsequently forced to retreat into Moldavia, the last portion of territory still under Romanian control.

Two were added from the new Savoyard territory, while the department of Alpes-Maritimes was created from Nice and a portion of the Var department.

He also gained a considerable portion of Silesian territory, partly by inheritance through his third wife, Anna von Schweidnitz, daughter of Henry II, Duke of Świdnica and Catherine of Hungary.

Under his tumultuous reign, the March of Friuli was absorbed into the March of Verona so that Verona's territory contained a large portion of Roman Venetia.