Nicholas V died in 1455, unaware of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of printing with moveable metal types in Mainz, Germany. |
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The noose became even tighter when the bishopric of Prague was subordinated to the German archbishopric of Mainz. |
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Between his arrival in 718 and his murder by pagans in 754, Boniface preached among the Frisians, Germans, and Franks, setting up a see at Mainz. |
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These were the Duke of Saxony, the Margrave of Brandenburg, the King of Bavaria, the Count Palatine of the Rhine and the three archbishops of Mainz, Trier and Cologne. |
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The Anglo-French-Scandinavian branch of the Sichel family is descended from a Dane who married a Sichel of Mainz, worked for the firm, and took his wife's name. |
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The first article, published in March 2000, was on atonality by a scholar at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. |
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Goodenough gave chase and in trying to lose him, Mainz came back across the path of Arethusa and her destroyers. |
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Keyes had now joined the main body of ships and brought Lurcher alongside Mainz to take off the crew. |
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Beyond Mainz is Suevia, the country of the Suebi, and beyond that is Alamannia, the country of the Alamanni. |
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On being notified, the legions would strike out in preventative and punitive expeditions from Mainz or Strasburg, or Augsburg on the other side. |
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The entire system could only succeed if heavy troop concentrations were kept at Mainz. |
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When Arnulf died in 899, his minor son, Louis IV, was crowned, but not anointed, and placed under the tutelage of Archbishop Hatto I of Mainz. |
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It was the capital of the Electorate of Mainz at the time of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Mainz is located on the 50th latitude, on the west bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main with the Rhine. |
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The population in the early 2012 was 200,957, an additional 18,619 people maintain a primary residence elsewhere but have a second home in Mainz. |
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The Mainz Sand Dunes area is now a nature reserve with a unique landscape and rare steppe vegetation for this area. |
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Attila went through Alsace in 451, devastating the country and destroying Mainz and Triers with their Roman garrisons. |
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Thereafter, Mainz, in its strategic position, became one of the bases of the Frankish kingdom. |
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His successor Dagobert I reinforced the walls of Mainz and made it one of his seats. |
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In the early Middle Ages, Mainz was a centre for the Christianisation of the German and Slavic peoples. |
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The Archbishops of Mainz traditionally were primas germaniae, the substitutes of the Pope north of the Alps. |
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In 1244, Archbishop Siegfried III granted Mainz a city charter, which included the right of the citizens to establish and elect a city council. |
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In 1462, the Archbishop Adolf II raided the city of Mainz, plundering and killing 400 inhabitants. |
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The new Archbishop revoked the city charter of Mainz and put the city under his direct rule. |
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Mainz is also the legendary home of the martyred Rabbi Amnon of Mainz, composer of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer. |
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Members of the Mainz Jacobin Club were mistreated or imprisoned and punished for treason. |
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In the afternoon of 18 November 1857, a huge explosion rocked Mainz when the city's powder magazine, the Pulverturm, exploded. |
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In 1872 Mayor Carl Wallau and the council of Mainz persuaded the military government to sign a contract to expand the city. |
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Celebrations in Germany centered on Fulda and Mainz, in the Netherlands on Dokkum and Utrecht, and in England on Crediton and Exeter. |
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A key event was the felling of Thor's Oak in 723 near Fritzlar by Boniface, apostle of the Germans and first archbishop of Mainz. |
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Led by Conrad, Archbishop of Mainz, the army captured the cities of Sidon and Beirut. |
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The Allies occupied the Rhine cities of Cologne, Koblenz and Mainz, with restoration dependent on payment of reparations. |
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The most important tributaries in this area are the Ill below of Strasbourg, the Neckar in Mannheim and the Main across from Mainz. |
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In Mainz, the Rhine leaves the Upper Rhine Valley and flows through the Mainz Basin. |
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The reason for this was that the French wanted Mainz to expand and to become a model city. |
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The city of Mainz is divided into 15 local districts according to the main statute of the city of Mainz. |
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Mainz is home to a Carnival, the Mainzer Fassenacht or Fastnacht, which has developed since the early 19th century. |
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Carnival in Mainz has its roots in the criticism of social and political injustices under the shelter of cap and bells. |
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Known collectively as Shum, the cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz played a key role in the preservation and propagation of Talmudic scholarship. |
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After leaving Mainz Klopp went on to win two Bundesliga titles and reaching a Champions League final with Borussia Dortmund. |
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The local wrestling club ASV Mainz 1888 is currently in the top division of team wrestling in Germany, the Bundesliga. |
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It was founded on 9 September 1959 by Berno Wischmann primarily for students of the University of Mainz. |
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Mainz is one of the centers of the German wine economy as a center for wine trade and the seat of the state's wine minister. |
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Mainz had been a wine growing region since Roman times and the image of the wine town Mainz is fostered by the tourist center. |
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Other companies such as IBM, QUINN Plastics, or Novo Nordisk have their German administration in Mainz as well. |
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The Port of Mainz, now handling mainly containers, is a sizable industrial area to the north of the city, along the banks of the Rhine. |
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Worms is located on the west bank of the river Rhine between the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mainz. |
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A key event was the felling of Donar's Oak in 723 near Fritzlar by Saint Boniface, apostle of the Germans and first archbishop of Mainz. |
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A famous statue of Saint Boniface stands on the grounds of Mainz Cathedral, seat of the archbishop of Mainz. |
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A council of Tours in 813 and then a synod of Mainz in 848 both declared that homilies ought to be preached in the vernacular. |
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For example, there is a yearly convention of traditional book printers in Mainz, Germany. |
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In 1923 Mainz participated in the Rhineland separatist movement that proclaimed a republic in the Rhineland. |
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In March, 1933, a detachment from the National Socialist Party in Worms brought the party to Mainz. |
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In 1962, the diarist, Friedrich Kellner, returned to spend his last years in Mainz. |
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Following the withdrawal of French forces from Mainz, the United States Army Europe occupied the military bases in Mainz. |
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Today USAREUR only occupies McCulley Barracks in Wackernheim and the Mainz Sand Dunes for training area. |
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Mainz is home to the headquarters of the Bundeswehr's Wehrbereichskommando II and other units. |
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The destruction caused by the bombing of Mainz during World War II led to the largest building boom in the history of the town. |
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The city expansion more than doubled the urban area which allowed Mainz to participate in the industrial revolution which had previously avoided the city for decades. |
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In 2007 the Mainz Athletics won the German Men's Championship in baseball. |
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As a result of the 2008 invasion of Georgia by Russian troops, Mainz acted as a neutral venue for the Georgian Vs Republic of Ireland football game. |
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The biggest basketball club in the city is the ASC Theresianum Mainz. |
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Although the city is situated opposite the mouth of the Main, the name of Mainz is not from Main, the similarity being perhaps due to diachronic analogy. |
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From a single print shop in Mainz, Germany, printing had spread to no less than around 270 cities in Central, Western and Eastern Europe by the end of the 15th century. |
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Mainz was also a base of a Roman river fleet, the Classis Germanica. |
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Another Pandionidae claw fossil was recovered from Early Oligocene deposits in the Mainz basin, Germany, and was described in 2006 by Gerald Mayr. |
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While cities such as Frankfurt had been rebuilt fast by a central authority, only individual efforts were initially successful in rebuilding Mainz. |
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Beginning in 1874, the city of Mainz assimilated the Gartenfeld, an idyllic area of meadows and fields along the banks of the Rhine to the north of the rampart. |
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Mainz Central Station or Mainz Hauptbahnhof, is frequented by 80,000 travelers and visitors each day and is therefore one of the busiest 21 stations in Germany. |
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Mainz has a number of different names in other languages and dialects. |
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For centuries the inhabitants of the fortress of Mainz had suffered from a severe shortage of space which led to disease and other inconveniences. |
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It came to the Battle of Mainz in 1795 between Austria and France. |
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In 1079 Fritzlar ceased to be a crown possession when it was given to the archbishop of Mainz by Emperor Henry IV in the aftermath of his submission to the Pope at Canossa. |
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From the last day of 405 or 406, the Siling and Asding Vandals, the Suebi, the Alans, and other Germanic tribes crossed the Rhine, possibly at Mainz. |
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In 1973, 1977 and 2012 the ASV Mainz 1888 won the German championship. |
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