Article: Bavaria
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ... ... BAVARIA BAVARIA. The duchy of Bavaria, which became a prince ... Unlike other territories, Bavaria was a nation rather than merely ... it was ruled by the local Wittelsbach dynasty. After a period of dynastic ... 1314 – 1347), Bavaria became and remained unified ...

Article: Bavaria buries the royal dream Funeral of Prince Albrechty
The Independent - London;  July 13, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... himself. Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria and pretender to the thrones ... last living link with the Wittelsbach dynasty's reign spanning eight centuries ... embodiment of independent Bavaria. He was 13 when his grandfather ... as hostile to a Kingdom of Bavaria as the communists had been ...

Article: Bavaria's summer fantasy
International Herald Tribune;  August 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... around 30 square miles the largest lake in Bavaria and a popular escape since ''mad'' King ... brokers, concerned about the decline of the Wittelsbach dynasty, which had ruled Bavaria for nearly eight centuries, removed him from ...

Article: Mad Ludwig lives on. (Bavaria's castles built by King ...
Europe;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... dreams - that's how king Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) is often remembered ... them all by car, driving through Upper Bavaria, the region between Munich and the ... includes carriages and coaches of the Wittelsbach dynasty. The collection includes Ludwig's ...

Article: Munich: York Membery visits the capital of Bavaria and ...
History Today;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... House of Wittelsbach whose kings ruled Bavaria until 1918, when Ludwig III was forced ... palace that was the main 'home' to the Wittelsbach dynasty. The complex grew from a small moated ... Tract, designed by Leo von Klenze. Bavaria's other most famous royal palace ...

Article: THREE GO MAD WITH LUDWIG ; He may have bankrupted his country, ...
The Independent on Sunday;  May 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... but he was never mad." Never upset a Bavarian while she is reversing a hefty piece of German engineering. The Wittelsbach dynasty is still a touchy subject and there's an ambivalence about its most colourful member. Ludwig II was a great ...

Encyclopedia entry: Palatinate
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... mi/9,650 sq km) of NE Bavaria, separated in the east from ... passed (1214) to the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty. The Wittelsbachs enlarged ... Frederick and transferred to Bavaria, but at the Peace of Westphalia ... Palatinate remained a part of Bavaria. The region became involved ...