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Even the man whose devoted work to the Luxembourg cause since 1968 now includes 20 years as the soccer federation president is astonished at where the team from the grand duchy stands today.
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Graham Dunbar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto was written in the glory days of Imperial Russia — an empire that included Finland as a grand duchy subjected, by the time Sibelius’s Second Symphony premiered in 1902, to severe policies of Russification.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
Europe has 12 remaining monarchies, including three principalities and a grand duchy.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
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Graham Dunbar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto was written in the glory days of Imperial Russia — an empire that included Finland as a grand duchy subjected, by the time Sibelius’s Second Symphony premiered in 1902, to severe policies of Russification.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
Europe has 12 remaining monarchies, including three principalities and a grand duchy.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
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“Grand duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grand%20duchy. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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