Sleswick

[ sles-wik ]

noun

1. Schleswig.

Example Sentences

How, in maintaining its privileges, the Church habitually threw its �gis over those least deserving of sympathy, is well illustrated by the intervention of Innocent III. in favor of Waldemar, Bishop of Sleswick.

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For the subsequent career of Waldemar of Sleswick, see Regest. xi.

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The Jutland and Sleswick pirates, who fourteen centuries ago performed the great achievement of conquering and colonizing Britain, have since, in the persons of their descendants, achieved the still greater feat of colonizing and settling, while they are in a fair way of conquering and occupying, a whole continent, to the destruction or absorption of every other race.

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In England and in Norway, in Sleswick and in Wendland, he carried the plans of his dynasty to a successful issue.

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From the Scanian frontiers to the confines of modern Sleswick it extended over "belts" and islands, closing completely the entrance to the Baltic.

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