TAUNUS

touˈnoos, range of the Rhenish Slate Mts., W Germany, extending c.50 mi (80 km) NE from the Rhine River, N of Mainz. It rises to 2,887 ft (880 m) in the Grosser Feldberg. The Taunus is covered by forests. Its southern slopes, the Rheingau region, have famous vineyards, notably at Rüdesheim, Johannisberg, Biebrich, and Kastel. Wiesbaden, Bad Nauheim, and Bad Homburg are the best known of the many mineral spas in the Taunus. There are many ruins of medieval castles and Roman fortifications.

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books on: Taunus  - 319 results

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1.
Essays
Book by Henry Francis Pelham, F. Haverfield; Clarendon Press, 1911
Subjects: Rome--History
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Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany
Book by John V. H. Dippel; Basic Books, 1996
Subjects: Germany--Ethnic Relations, Jewish Leadership--Germany, Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945
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Germany in Power and Eclipse: The Background of German Development
Book by James K. Pollock, Homer Thomas, Willett F. Ramsdell, Clark Trow, Manfred C. Vernon; Van Nostrand, 1952
Subjects: Germany--Administrative And Political Divisions, Germany--History, Germany--Politics And Government
...lowland bays. The Rhenish upland consists of the Hunsruck and Eifel ranges which border the Rhine on the west, and of the Taunus, Westerwald, and Sauerland ranges, which guard the eastern bank of the Rhine. The Hessian hills which lie to the east include...
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The Provinces of the Roman Empire: From Caesar to Diocletian - Vol. 1
Book by Theodor Mommsen, William P. Dickson; Charles Scribners Sons, 1887
Subjects: Rome--History--Empire, 284-476, Rome--Provinces--Administration
...Northward of the Main followed first in the Taunus the Chatti, farther down the Rhine the...as well as the constructions in the Taunus, to be mentioned further on, show that...of Augustus. lines, and the height of Taunus strongly fortified. 1 But above all...
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Germania
Book by J. B. Rives, Cornelius Tacitus; Clarendon Press, 1999
Subjects: Germanic Peoples
...presence east of the Rhine by reoccupying old forts in the Taunus and the Wetterau north of the Main, driving a road into the...Mela is the first extant writer to mention the Main and the Taunus and the only one to give names to marshes, this information...
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journal articles on: Taunus  - 8 results

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Men and Gender Mainstreaming: Prospects and Pitfalls of a European Strategy
Journal article by Christian Scambor, Elli Scambor; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 16, 2008
Subjects: Gender equality--Political aspects, Male identity--Political aspects, Policy sciences--Demographic aspects
...Gender Training (pp. 159-173). Konigstein/Taunus, Germany: Ulrike Helmer Verlag. Blickhauser...within Gender Mainstreaming. Konigstein/Taunus, Germany: Ulrike Helmet Verlag. Bohnisch...Experiences with gender training. Konigstein/Taunus, Germany: Ulrike Helmer Verlag. Ohlendieck...
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Cloth on Her Head, Constitution in Hand (1): Germany's Headscarf Debates and the Cultural Politics of Difference
Journal article by Beverly Weber; German Politics and Society, Vol. 22, 2004
Subjects: Costume, Islamic--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic clothing--Laws, regulations and rules, Muslim women--Religious aspects, Political culture--Analysis, Veils--Laws, regulations and rules, Veils--Usage, Women immigrants--Religious aspects, Women, Muslim--Religious aspects
...kulturwissenschaftlicher Streifzug durch transnationale Raume (Konigstein/Taunus, 2001), Steffi Hobuss, Die andere Halfte der Globalisierung...transnationale Raume, Sabine Hess and Ramona Lenz, eds. (Konigstein/Taunus, 2001), 129-6.5; cited here, 134, Westphal, (see note 21), 20-22...
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Ecumenical Resources
Journal article; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 41, 2004
...frische Brise tut not--Okumenischer Jahresberich 2004: Bericht bei der Mitgliederversammlung des Evangelischen Bundes in Kronberg/Taunus am 15. Oktober 2004," pp. i-xi (insert). Okumenische Rundschau (Frankfurt am Main) The following articles appear in Vol. 53...
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August Adolf Ludwig Follen (1794-1855): Political Radicalism and Literary Romanticism in Germany and Switzerland
Journal article by Edmund Spevack; Germanic Review, Vol. 71, 1996
Subjects: Germanic Philology
...63. See Wilhem Marr, Das junge Deutschland in der Schweiz (Leipzig: Wilhelm Jurany, 1846 ; reprint Glashutten im Taunus: Detlev Auvermann, 1976) 51-54. I use Marrs Memoir with some reserve, seeing as the author became a central figure of racial...
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Structural Tests in Additive Regression
Journal article by Wolfgang Hardle, Stefan Sperlich, Vladimir Spokoiny; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 96, 2001
Subjects: Principal components analysis--Usage, Regression analysis--Usage, Statistics (Mathematics)
...international vergleichenden Mobilitatsforschung," in Sozialstrukturanalysen mit Umfragedaten, ed. F. U. Pappi, Kronberg im Taunus: Athenaum. Venables, W. N., and Ripley, B. (1994), Modern Applied Statistics With S-PLUS, New York: Springer. Figure 1 omitted...
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The German Rheingau: Home of Funfairs and Festivals
Magazine article by Martina Weyreter; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, April 1999
Subjects: Festivals--Germany, Hesse, Germany--Fairs, festivals, etc.
...German wines are produced. In fact, it was the Romans who introduced viticulture to the sunny south-facing foothills of the Taunus mountains that naturally lend themselves to wine growing. When Queen Victoria visited in 1850, her praise included the words...
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"Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair" (a Story of a Woman's Youth during and after World War One)
Magazine article by Doris Drucker; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, August 1998
Subjects: Drucker, Doris, German writers, Lahnstein, Clara, Memoirs, World War I, 1914-1918--Personal narratives
...clear we had to move out. But where to? It so happened that Uncle Albert and Aunt Flora had a second home in Konigstein, in the Taunus woods, some twenty miles away. That house, too, had been requisitioned by the French--much to the chagrin of its owners. They...
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Peter Cook: A Thought-Provoking Meditation on the Meaning of the Actual Stuff of Architecture
Magazine article by Peter Cook; The Architectural Review, Vol. 220, November 2006
Subjects: Architectural firms--Forecasts and trends, Architectural practice--Forecasts and trends, Architectural services--Forecasts and trends, Architecture--Forecasts and trends
...are faced, dressed, painted--even extruded--in that slightly sad, greyed-down red of the stone quarried somewhere behind the Taunus hills, in keeping with the faded beauties who sit in the Frankfurter Hof Hotel. No wonder that the Modernist cry was of glass...


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Love Affair with a TV Heavy
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), March 23, 2007
...the enormous, boxy and very strange Mk IV Zephyr and Zodiac which did not go down a bundle in the UK plus replace the German Taunus 17M, 20M and 26M. Yes, the 1972 Consul Granada did have its work cut out in a tough marketplace and proved without doubt it...
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Match of the Stay; Home & Holidays Consumer Special Go to the World Cup Finals This Summer & Avoid the Sky-High Prices with Our Guide
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), March 5, 2006
...town - theyre booked solid. Instead, consider a camp about 30 minutes drive away such as Taunus at Eppstein- Niederjosbach, close to Wiesbaden (www.taunus camp.de) For more information see www.germany tourism.co.uk You can reduce bills by booking...
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Consul Had the Grunt and the Glamour; Motoring World Classic Wheels
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), August 31, 2007
...enormous, boxy and very strange Mk IV Zephyr and Zodiac which did not go down a bundle in the UK as well as replacing the German Taunus 17M, 20M and 26M. Yes, the 1972 Consul Granada did have its work cut out in a tough marketplace and proved without doubt it...
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As the Rain Eases of a Big Chill Is Set to Take Its Place
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 16, 1998
...the first massive fall of snow in a forest at Koenigstein, near Frankfurt He sculptured his snowmen to his own height in the Taunus mountain area around the 2,887ft Feldberg mountain. In the United Kingdom, Scotland suffered the worst wintery weather as it...
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Fabulous Fords!
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), April 7, 2006
Subjects: Automobile industry
...20 year life and more than four million were turned out of the Dagenham factory. Add overseas production and the German-built Taunus models and the total production figure hits some 10 million. It was eventually replaced by the Sierra, but the new car could...
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encyclopedia articles on: Taunus  - 7 results

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Taunus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TAUNUS tou noos, range of the Rhenish Slate Mts., W Germany...rises to 2,887 ft (880 m) in the Grosser Feldberg. The Taunus is covered by forests. Its southern slopes, the Rheingau...Homburg are the best known of the many mineral spas in the Taunus. There are many ruins of medieval castles and Roman fortifications...
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Bad Nauheim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAD NAUHEIM bat nou him, town (1994 pop. 29,405), Hesse, central Germany, in the Taunus Mts. It is a world-famous resort, noted for its salt springs, which are used to treat heart and nerve diseases...
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Wiesbaden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ba d n, vis , city (1994 pop. 270,873), capital of Hesse, central Germany, on the Rhine River, at the southern foot of the Taunus Mts. The city, an industrial center and a market for Rhine wines, is one of the most famous spas of Europe. Manufactures include...
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Rhenish Slate Mountains
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...plateau, W Germany, lying between W Hesse state and the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg. It comprises the Eifel, Hunsruck, Taunus, and Westerwald mts., which flank both sides of the Mosel and Lahn rivers. The plateau is dissected by the Rhine River and its...
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Bad Homburg Vor Der HÖhe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bat hom boork for der ho , Bad Homburg, or Homburg, city (1994 pop. 51,455), Hesse, central Germany, at the foot of the Taunus Mts. It is a famous spa and resort. Manufactures include foodstuffs, machinery, textiles, and leather goods. Chartered in the...
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