gaun.

/ɡaʊ/

Etymology: German.

A territorial and administrative division of ancient Germany, including several villages or communities; in the Middle Ages, a larger division, over which, under Frankish rule, was placed a graf. The word is a frequent final element of place-names, as Breisgau, Oberammergau.

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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Germany

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1845 B. Thorpe tr. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. I. 88 In the time of Charlemagne, they [sc. the Saxons] were in possession of..the ‘gaus’, or districts, of the later Upper and Lower Saxony.

1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. §26 The four [marks] were in a.d. 804 made into a Gau, in which the archbishop of Bremen had the royal rights of Heerbann and Blutbann.

1916 E. G. A. Holmes Nemesis of Docility i. 19 The counts..were supposed to..keep order in their own gaus or ‘shires’.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 257 The people looked for protection to the local ruler rather than the reigning prince, to the count of the district (Gau) and to the tribal duke.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	gau
释义	gaun. /ɡaʊ/ Etymology: German. A territorial and administrative division of ancient Germany, including several villages or communities; in the Middle Ages, a larger division, over which, under Frankish rule, was placed a graf. The word is a frequent final element of place-names, as Breisgau, Oberammergau. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Germany circle1675 amt1694 peasantry1762 gau1845 1845 B. Thorpe tr. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. I. 88 In the time of Charlemagne, they [sc. the Saxons] were in possession of..the ‘gaus’, or districts, of the later Upper and Lower Saxony. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. §26 The four [marks] were in a.d. 804 made into a Gau, in which the archbishop of Bremen had the royal rights of Heerbann and Blutbann. 1916 E. G. A. Holmes Nemesis of Docility i. 19 The counts..were supposed to..keep order in their own gaus or ‘shires’. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 257 The people looked for protection to the local ruler rather than the reigning prince, to the count of the district (Gau) and to the tribal duke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1845
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