| LC control no. | n 82157873 |
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| Geographic heading | Cleve (Duchy) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Cleve (Duchy) |
| Variant(s) | Herzogtum Kleve Kleve (Duchy) Duchy of Cleves Cleves (Duchy) Hertogdom Kleef Kleef (Duchy) |
| See also | Jülich-Cleve-Berg |
| Found in | Grosse Brockh. (under Cleve: Herzogtum; establ. 1417) Brockhaus Enzykl., 1967 (under Kleve: Herzogtum Kleve) Low-Rhenish Ancestors of Theunis Koenders/Kunders/Conradts/Heckers Web site, Mar. 7, 2003 (Between 1305 and 1798, Gladbach lay under the jurisdiction of the earldom of Jülich, which was raised to a Margravedom in 1336 and became a duchy 1356; in 1429, the land was joined with the duchy of Berg, after which the united dukedom was known as Jülich-Berg; the capital was at Dusseldorf; in 1511, the Dukedom of Cleve was joined with Jülich-Berg, the resulting duchy being called Jülich-Cleve-Berg; during the Clevish War of Succession, the duchy fell to the Wittlesbacher who ruled there until 1798) Wikipedia, Aug. 29, 2012 (Duchy of Cleves; Herzogtum Kleve; Hertogdom Kleef; was a state of the Holy Roman Empire ... situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine, around its capital Cleves and the town of Wesel; the duchy's territory roughly covered the present-day German districts of Cleves (northern part), Wesel and the city of Duisburg, as well as adjacent parts of the Limburg, North Brabant and Gelderland provinces in the Netherlands) |
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