Rhenish

Another is the development of Latin -CT-, which has developed into /tɕ/ in the Rhenish varieties as in détg ‘said’ or fatg ‘did’, while developing into /t/ in Ladin (dit and fat).

Around the year 280, a half- British officer named Bonosus was in command of the Roman's Rhenish fleet when the Germans managed to burn it at anchor.

As this region was politically connected to the Rhenish Palatinate, the name Upper Palatinate ( German Oberpfalz main) became common from the early 16th century in contrast to the Lower Palatinate along the Rhine.

In 1851 he completed his Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish" (a work containing five movements and whose 4th movement is apparently intended to represent an episcopal coronation ceremony).

Indeed, after Schumann's last symphony, the "Rhenish" composed in 1850, for two decades the Lisztian symphonic poem appeared to have displaced the symphony as the leading form of large-scale instrumental music.

In order not to confuse the new Palatinate with the historic one (and with the Upper Palatinate ), the name Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz) became common and is still used today, but never official.

In spite of its dismembered condition, and the sufferings it underwent at the hands of its French neighbours in various periods of warfare, the Rhenish territory prospered greatly and stood in the foremost rank of German culture and progress.

In the 1840s the German Rhenish Mission Society started working in Namibia and co-operating with the London Missionary Society.

In the spring of 1834, Chopin attended the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in Aix-la-Chapelle with Hiller, and it was there that Chopin met Felix Mendelssohn.

Liver 2009, p. 137 The influence of German is generally strongest in the Rhenish varieties Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, and Sursilvan, where French loanwords (frequently not borrowed directly but transmitted through German) are also more numerous.

Map of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle in 1799 by John Cary As the central power of the Holy Roman Emperor weakened, the Rhineland split into numerous small independent principalities, each with its separate vicissitudes and special chronicles.

The Rhenish electorates of Mainz and Trier both witnessed mass burnings of suspected witches during this time.

The term Rhenish Bavaria (Rheinbayern) never gained currency but can be found sometimes in older maps.

This was to become a feature of Rhenish Romanesque.

Wheeler's proposed project had been to analyse Romano-Rhenish pottery, and with the grant he funded a trip to the Rhineland in Germany, there studying the Roman pottery housed in local museums; his research into this subject was never published.