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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.
Paladins. Caesar Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor. The term palatine or palatinus was first used in the Roman Empire for chamberlains of the emperor (e.g. Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church) due to their association with the Palatine Hill, the home where Roman emperors lived since Augustus Caesar (and whence "palace").
View of the Palatine Hill from across the Circus Maximus A schematic map of Rome showing the seven hills and the Servian Wall. The Palatine Hill (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /; Classical Latin: Palatium; [1] Neo-Latin: Collis/Mons Palatinus; Italian: Palatino [palaˈtiːno]), which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been ...
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 ...
A palatine or palatinus ( Latin; pl.: palatini; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. [1] The term palatinus was first used in Ancient Rome for chamberlains of the Emperor due to their association with the Palatine Hill. [2]
The forest is a designated nature park ( German: Naturpark Pfälzerwald) covering 1,771 km 2 and its highest elevation is the Kalmit (672.6 m). Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO -designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve .
It lies mostly between latitudes 47° and 55° N (the tip of Sylt is just north of 55°), and longitudes 5° and 16° E. The territory covers 357,600 km 2 (138,070 sq mi), consisting of 349,250 km 2 (134,846 sq mi) of land and 8,350 km 2 (3,224 sq mi) of water. It is the seventh largest country by area in Europe and the 63rd largest in the world.
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 ...