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See also:ERMELAND, or ERMLAND (Varmia) , a See also:district of See also:Germany, in See also:East See also:Prussia, extending from the Frisches Haff, a See also:bay in the Baltic, inland towards the See also:Polish frontier . It is a well-wooded sandy See also:tract of See also:country, has an See also:area of about 165o sq. m., a See also:population of 240,000, and is divided into the districts of See also:Braunsberg, See also:Heilsberg, Rossel and See also:Allenstein . See also:Ermeland was originally one of the eleven districts of old Prussia and was occupied by the See also:Teutonic Knights (Deutsche) . Orden), being made in 1250 one of the four bishoprics of ti c country under their sway . The See also:bishop of Ermeland shortly afterwards declared himself See also:independent of the See also:order, and became a See also:prince of the See also:Empire . In 1466 Ermeland, together with See also:West Prussia, was by the See also:peace of See also:Thorn attached to the See also:crown of See also:Poland, and the bishop had a seat in the Polish See also:senate . In 1772 it was again incorporated with Prussia . Among the bishops of the see, which still exists, with its seat in Frauenberg, may be mentioned See also:Aeneas Sylvius See also:Piccolomini, afterwards See also:Pope See also:Pius II., and See also:Cardinal See also:Stanislaus See also:Hosius (1504–1579), the founder of the Jesuit See also:college in Braunsberg . See Hipler, Literaturgeschichte See also:des Bisthums Ermeland (Braunsberg, 1873) ; the Monumenta historiae Warmiensis (See also:Mainz, 186o-1864, and Braunsberg, 1866-1872, 4 vols.) ; and See also:Buchholz, Abriss einer Geschichte des Ermlands (Braunsberg, 1903.) ' Emerka and Fridla (See also:Beowulf, Quedlingburg Chron.), Aki and Etgard (Vilkina See also:Saga) . In the See also:original myth the Harlungs, who are not to be confused with the Hartung See also:brothers, were sent to bring See also:home Surya, the See also:bride of the See also:sky-See also:god . Irmintiu . |
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