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Franconia

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Fran·co·ni·a  (frng-kn-, -kny, frn-)
A region and former duchy of southern Germany. It was one of the five primary duchies of medieval Germany.
Franconia [fræŋˈkəʊnɪə]
n
(Placename) a medieval duchy of Germany, inhabited by the Franks from the 7th century, now chiefly in Bavaria, Hesse, and Baden-Württemberg
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Franconia
n → Franken nt
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It is not impossible that this conceit occurred to Hawthorne before he had himself seen the Old Man of the Mountain, or the Profile, in the Franconia Notch which is generally associated in the minds of readers with The Great Stone Face.
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
the solitary horseman of the classic romances--might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the sea and still spindling slowly.
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