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Explore r s and Immigran tsAlmost the entire ancient nobil i ty of Bohemia wasdriven into exile in the year 1620 by Ferdinand, the Empe ror who succeeded Ru dolph. These nobles ha d d eposed Ferdinand as King of Bohemia , though he s t i l lru led th e Em pire . He recovered the crown of Bohem iaby force of arm s, and, in re tal iat ion drove th e no bles o utan d confiscated the ir lan ds . H e also expelled al l th e people who refused to recognize the creed of the RomanCathol ic church.A book with the lengthy ti t le "A Collection of Upwards of Thir ty Thousand Names of Germans, Swiss ,Dutch , F rench and Other Immigran ts in Pennsy lvan ia"by Rupp, shows that mos t of the German immigrants toal l par ts of America came by way of Pennsylvania froma pol i t ica l group of German s ta tes ca l led the Pala t inate .Boh emia w as not of this gro up . Th e U pp er P al at in at e -.w as composed of p a r t of th e B av aria of tod ay . B av ariabo rde red on Bo hem ia. The w ord 'up pe r ' refers to al t itude , and hence th e southern pa r t of Ge rma ny. Tb^Lower or Rhine Pala t inate was made up of the ter r i torynow divided among Bavar ia , Baden, Hesse , and Pruss ia .Our imm igrant ances tor came a lso f rom th e Pa la t in ate .His nat ive town was Bingen on the Rhine River in thegra nd -du ch y of Hesse. Prob ably his fore be ars ha d migra ted to Germany when exi led f rom Bohemia .For a thousand years , or s ince the Frankish k ingdom spli t up into France and Germany, a s tr ip of terr itory between these two countr ies has been the seat ofw ar s and th e object of conqu ests . In 843 , i t e xten dedfrom South Germany to the North sea and westwardfrom t h e R hi ne R ive r ab ou t 150 mtfles. It wa s then, called Lo rraine . I ts are a ha s va ried from t ime to t i m e ; firs tone and then the other country has been in possess ionof i t . Sh run ke n in ar ea now , it belong s since th e W orld

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