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Ferdinand II

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Ferdinand II 1578-1637.
Holy Roman emperor (1619-1637) and king of Bohemia (1617-1619 and 1620-1627) and Hungary (1618-1625). A leader of the Counter Reformation, he waged constant war against Protestant forces.
Ferdinand II
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1. (Biographies / Ferdinand II (1578-1637) M, Austrian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1578-1637, Holy Roman Emperor (1619-37); king of Bohemia (1617-19; 1620-37) and of Hungary (1617-37). His anti-Protestant policies led to the Thirty Years' War
2. (Biographies) title as king of Aragon and Sicily of Ferdinand V
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Noun1.Ferdinand II - Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637)Ferdinand II - Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary who waged war against Protestant forces (1578-1637)
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Vesuvius, which has had about 30 major eruptions since the one that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD, has been under expert surveillance since the 19th century when the first observatory was built on the volcano in 1845 on the orders of Ferdinand II, king of the Two Sicilies.
Vesuvius, the world's most closely watched volcano by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Sarkozy's own Hungarian roots go way back to the sixteenth century, his family being enobled as minor aristocracy by the Emperor Ferdinand II in 1628.
The Mediterranean Union: Sarkozy's 'Grand Design' by Nash, Michael / Contemporary Review
This conclusion which had received the assent of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies was reached on the recognition that Don Mario alone had the royal blood of Aragon in his veins from two sources, through the separate descents of both his mother and his father from King James the Conqueror.
Genealogy of the Royal House of Aragon by Jonathan Brunet / Ethnic, cultural, racial issues community
 
 
 
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