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1. Ferdinand
   (1865-1927) King of Romania from 1914, when he succeeded his uncle Charles I. In 1916 he declared war on Austria. After the Allied victory in World War I, Ferdinand acquired Transylvania and Bukovina from...
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2. Ferdinand
   (1861-1948) King of Bulgaria 1908-18. Son of Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he was elected prince of Bulgaria in 1887 and, in 1908, proclaimed Bulgaria's independence from Turkey and assumed the...
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3. Ferdinand
   King Ferdinand noun the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture o...
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4. Ferdinand
   (from the article `Love`s Labour`s Lost`) The play opens as Ferdinand, the king of Navarre, and three of his noblemen—Berowne (Biron), Longaville, and Dumaine (Dumain)—debate their ...
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5. Ferdinand
   (from the article `Tempest, The`) ...As the play begins, Prospero raises the tempest in order to cast onto the shores of his island a party of Neapolitans returning to Naples from a ...
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6. Ferdinand
   (from the article `Bouvines, Battle of`) ...that gave a decisive victory to the French king Philip II Augustus over an international coalition of the Holy Roman emperor Otto IV, King John of ...
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7. Ferdinand
   (from the article `Saxon duchies`) ...in 1831 as Leopold I. Another, Albert, became the prince consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain in 1840, and from them have descended the five ...
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8. Ferdinand
   duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prussian general field marshal who defended western Germany for his brother-in-law Frederick II the Great in the ... [1 related articles]
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9. Ferdinand
   prince (1887–1908) and first king (1908–18) of modern Bulgaria.[4 related articles]
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10. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand is a German boy name. The meaning of the name is `Ready Traveler` Where is it used? The name Ferdinand is mainly used In English, German, French and In Czech.It is an abbreviated form of Nándor, used In Hungarian.How do they say it elsewhere? Fernando ( In Spanish and In Portuguese) H...
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11. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand, 1793–1875, emperor of Austria (1835–48), son and successor of Emperor Francis I (who also, as Francis II, had been the last Holy Roman emperor). A well-meaning monarch in his lucid moments, he was subject to fits of insanity. A council of state that included Metternich governe...
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12. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand, 1861–1948, czar of Bulgaria (1908–18), after being ruling prince (1887–1908). A grandnephew of Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he was chosen prince of Bulgaria after the enforced abdication of Prince Alexander. He was, however, opposed by Russia, and it was not until 1896...
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13. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand, 1721–92, Prussian field marshal, a prince of the house of Brunswick, known as Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick. He served King Frederick II of Prussia brilliantly in the Seven Years War, notably by his victories at Krefeld (1758) and Minden (1759).
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14. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand, 1865–1927, king of Romania (1914–27), nephew of Carol I. The second son of the Prussian prince, Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, he was designated successor to the heirless Carol I in 1880. In 1893 he married Marie, daughter of Alfred, duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-...
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15. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand is the son of the King of Naples in the tempest.
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16. Ferdinand
    Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick was the fourth son of Duke Ferdinand Albert. He was born in 1721 at Brunswick and died in 1792. In 1739 he entered the Prussian service, was engaged in the Silesian wars, and in the Seven Years' War commanded the allied army in Westphalia. He drove the French from Lower ...
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17. Ferdinand
    (of Romania) King of Romania from 1914, when he succeeded his uncle Charles I. In 1916 he declared war on Austria. After the Allied victory in World War I, Ferdinand acquired Transylvania and Bukovina from Austria-Hungary, and Bessarabia from Russia. In 1922 he became king of this Greater ...
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18. Ferdinand
    (I) King of Castile from 1035. He began the reconquest of Spain from the Moors and united all northwestern Spain under his and his brothers' rule
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19. Ferdinand
    `Ferdinand` is a Germanic male given name composed of the words for "prepared"/"protection"/"safety"/"peace" (frithu) and "journey"/"boldness"/"recklessness" (nantha). It is particularly common in nations and regions...
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20. Ferdinand
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21. Ferdinand
    (horse) `Ferdinand` (1983–2002) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1986 Kentucky Derby and 1987 Breeders` Cup Classic. He was voted the 1987 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. He entered stud in 1989 and was later sold to a breeding farm in Japan in 1994. Much to the outrage of...
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22. Ferdinand
    (The Tempest) In Shakespeare`s play, The Tempest, `Ferdinand` is the prince of Naples and the son of Alonso. Fictional biography: Ferdinand is aboard the ship that is run aground due to the storm created by the sorcerer and old Duke, Prospero. Ferdinand is separated from his father and...
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23. Ferdinand
    (dancer) .<br>Lithograph by Vigneron, 1825.</center> `Jean La Brunière de Médicis` (3 November 1791, Ferdinand, of the Opéra, one day said to his comrade, M. Paul (dancer)|Paul : I bet I jump higher than you. I bet you don`t, said M. Paul ; and he tried, but he was unable to do...
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