Battenberg or Battenburg may refer to:
Places
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Battenberg (Eder)
Battenberg (Eder) is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, the state of Hesse, Germany. The town is noted for giving its name to the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the ruling House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and through it, the name Mo ...
, a town in Hesse, Germany
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Battenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate
Battenberg (officially Battenberg (Pfalz)) is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim (district), Bad Dürkheim district in Rh ...
, a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Battenberg Hill, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
People
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Battenberg family
The Battenberg family is a non-dynastic cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, which ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse until 1918. The first member was Julia Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of ...
, German noble family from Hesse
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Julia, Princess of Battenberg
Julia, Princess of Battenberg (previously Countess Julia Therese Salomea von Hauke; – 19 September 1895) was the wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the third son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse. The daughter of a Polish general o ...
(1825–1895)
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Prince Louis of Battenberg
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, (24 May 185411 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British ...
(1854–1921)
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Princess Marie of Battenberg
Princess Marie of Battenberg (german: Marie Karoline; 15 February 1852 – 20 June 1923) was a Princess of Battenberg and, by marriage, the Princess of Erbach-Schönberg. She worked as a writer and translator.
Background and early life
Marie was ...
(1852–1923)
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Alexander of Battenberg
Alexander Joseph ( bg, Александър I Батенберг; 5 April 185717 November 1893), known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince ('' knyaz'') of the Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886. The Bul ...
(1857–1893)
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Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg (Henry Maurice; 5 October 1858 – 20 January 1896) was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse. He became a member of the British royal family by marriage to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom ...
(1858–1896)
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Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg
Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, (german: Franz Joseph; 24 September 1861 – 31 July 1924), was the fourth and youngest son and child of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and his morganatic wife Countess Julia von Hauke.
Biograph ...
(1861–1924)
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Princess Alice of Battenberg
Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, and the paternal grandmother of King Charles III ...
(1885–1969)
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John Nelson Battenberg (1931–2012), American sculptor
Other uses
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Battenberg cake
Battenberg or Battenburg (with either 'cake' or 'square' added on the end) is a light sponge cake with different sections held together with jam. The cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two ...
or Battenburg cake, a cake with a checkered pattern on the inside
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Battenburg markings
Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Ter ...
, a pattern named after the aforementioned cake
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Battenberg Cup
The Battenberg Cup is an award given annually as a symbol of operational excellence to the best ship or submarine in the United States Navy Atlantic Fleet. The cup was originally awarded as a trophy to the winner of cutter or longboat rowing c ...
, an American naval award (named after Prince Louis of Battenberg)
See also
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Mountbatten
The Mountbatten family is a British dynasty that originated as an English branch of the German princely Battenberg family. The name was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name to “Windsor”, by ...
, UK branch of the German family
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Mountbatten-Windsor
Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname used by some of the male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Under a declaration made in Privy Council in 1960, the name ''Mountbatten-Windsor'' applies to ma ...
, the personal surname of some of the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Battenberg Mausoleum
The Memorial Tomb of Alexander I of Battenberg ( bg, Гробница паметник „Александър І Батенберг", ''Grobnitsa pametnik „Aleksandar І Batenberg"''), better known as the Battenberg Mausoleum (Мавзолей ...
, mausoleum of Prince Alexander of Battenberg in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Battenberg Palace, the popular name of the Rousse Regional Historical Museum building
* Battenberg Chapel, in
St Mildred's Church, Whippingham
St Mildred's Church, Whippingham is the Church of England parish church of the village of Whippingham, Isle of Wight.
History
The village of Whippingham, and St Mildred's Church as its parish church, are best known for their connections wi ...
, on the Isle of Wight
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Battenberg Square, central square in Sofia, Bulgaria (named after Prince Alexander of Battenberg)
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