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Baden

Former state of southwestern Germany, which had Karlsruhe as its capital. Baden was captured from the Romans in 282 by the Alemanni; later it became a margravate and, in 1806, a grand duchy. A state of the German empire 1871–1918, then a republic, and under Hitler a Gau (province), it was divided between the Länder of Württemberg-Baden and Baden in 1945 and in 1952 made part of Baden-Württemberg.

Baden

Town in Aargau canton, Switzerland, near Zürich, at an altitude of 388 m/1,273 ft; population (1990) 14,800. Its hot sulphur springs and mineral waters have been visited since Roman times.

The sulphur baths (the Aquae Helvetiae of the Romans) reach a temperature of 47°C/117°F. From the 15th to the 18th century it was the seat of the Swiss diet.



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His summer had been very full, and he sat under the great trees beside the miniature river that trickles past the Baden flower-beds, he slowly rummaged it over.
The American by James, Henry View in context
Sir Patrick re-directed Anne Silvester's letter to Arnold, at the Poste Restante, Baden.
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Last came the Empress of Germany and the Grand Duchess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-bowing groups of servants and disappeared in the hotel, exhibiting to us only the backs of their heads, and then the show was over.
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