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• burgomaster — burgomastership, n. /berr geuh mas teuhr, mah steuhr/, n. the chief magistrate of a municipal town of Holland, Flanders, Germany, or Austria. [1585 95; < D burgemeester, equiv. to burg BOROUGH + meester MASTER, c. G Bürgermeister major] * * * ▪… …   Universalium

• History of Zürich — Zürich was continuously inhabited since Roman times. Political power lay with the Grossmünster and Fraumünster abbeys during Medieval times, until the guild revolt in the 14th century which led to the joining of the Swiss Confederacy. Zürich was… …   Wikipedia

• Badeni, Kasimir Felix, Graf von — ▪ Polish Austrian statesman Polish  Kazimierz Feliks, Hrabia (count) Badeni  born Oct. 14, 1846, Surochów, Galicia died July 9, 1909, near Krasne       Polish born statesman in the Austrian service, who, as prime minister (1895–97) of the… …   Universalium