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Palatine German (Standard German: Pfälzisch, endonym: Pälzisch) is a group of Rhine Franconian dialects spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Odenwald, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau, Wörth am Rhein and the border to Alsace and Lorraine, in France, but also beyond.
The Palatinate ( German: Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz ), or the Rhenish Palatinate ( Rheinpfalz ), is a historical region of Germany. The Palatinate occupies most of the southern quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate ( Rheinland-Pfalz ), covering an area of 2,105 square miles (5,450 km 2) with about 1.4 million inhabitants.
Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the ...
Palatines (Palatine German: Pälzer) were the citizens and princes of the Palatinates, Holy Roman States that served as capitals for the Holy Roman Emperor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the nationality referred more specifically to residents of the Rhenish Palatinate , known simply as "the Palatinate".
kaiserslautern.de. Kaiserslautern(German pronunciation:[ˌkaɪzɐsˈlaʊtɐn]ⓘ; Palatinate German: Lautre) is a town in southwest Germany, located in the stateof Rhineland-Palatinateat the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century.
Mannheim ( German pronunciation: [ˈmanhaɪm] ⓘ; Palatine German: Mannem[ 4 ] or Monnem ), officially the University City of Mannheim ( German: Universitätsstadt Mannheim ), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany 's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of ...
The Upper Palatinate is a landscape with low mountains and numerous ponds and lakes in its lowland regions. By contrast with other regions of Germany it is more rural in character and more sparsely settled. It borders (clockwise from the north) on Upper Franconia, the Czech Republic, Lower Bavaria, Upper Bavaria and Middle Franconia .
Palatinate ( German: Pfalz) is a German wine -growing region ( Weinbaugebiet) in the area of Bad Dürkheim, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before 1993, it was known as Rhine Palatinate ( Rheinpfalz ). With 23,698 hectares (58,560 acres) under cultivation in 2022, the region is the second largest wine region in ...