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    House Order of Fidelity, 1909 Wilhelm Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe von Otto Elster, S. 132-133 "Herzoglich Hausorden Albrechts des Bären", Hof- und Staats-Handbuch...
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    Gottlieb Elster (8 October 1867 – 6 December 1917) was a German sculptor. Elster was born in Kreiensen on 8 October 1867. He studied at the Braunschweig...
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    Battle on the Elster (German: Schlacht bei Hohenmölsen) was the third and last battle between the Salian king Henry IV of Germany and anti-king Rudolf...
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    Bad Elster (German pronunciation: [ˌbaːt ˈɛlstɐ] ) is a spa town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. It lies on the border of Bavaria and...
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    The surrender of Major General Botho Elster and more than 19,000 German soldiers to the United States Army during World War II took place on 17 September...
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    to his injuries after his forces defeated Henry's in the Battle on the Elster. Rudolf was the son of the Swabian count (Graf) Kuno of Rheinfelden. He...
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    1930. The famous painter Otto Dix was born in Gera in 1891. The place name Gera originally referred to the area of the Elster river valley where the city...
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    navigable from Naumburg and is also planned connected from Leuna with the White Elster near Leipzig by an unfinished canal. The soil of the lower part of its valley...
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    1080 the armies of the two rival kings met at the White Elster River during the Battle of Elster in the plain of Leipzig and Henry's forces again suffered...
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    Schloss Moritzburg is a Schloss (palace) in Zeitz on the White Elster in the Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt. The present baroque building dates from...
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