Cleve or Cleves may refer to:
Places
* The historical
Duchy of Cleves
The Duchy of Cleves (german: Herzogtum Kleve; nl, Hertogdom Kleef) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval . It was situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine, around its capital Cleves and ...
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Kleve
Kleve (; traditional en, Cleves ; nl, Kleef; french: Clèves; es, Cléveris; la, Clivia; Low Rhenish: ''Kleff'') is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century ...
, a town in Germany known historically in English as Cleves
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Cleve, South Australia
Cleve is a small agriculturally based town on Central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is 226 km southwest of Port Augusta and 143 km north of Port Lincoln. At the 2006 census, Cleve had a population of 738.
The town has its origin ...
, a town
* Cleve, a colonial plantation in
King George County, Virginia
King George County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population sits at 26,723. Its county seat is the town of King George.
The county's largest employer is the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center ...
* "The Cleve", a nickname for
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
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Cleves, Ohio
Cleves is a village in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 3,234 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1818, it is named for John Cleves Symmes who lived here, laid out the original tow ...
, a village
People
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Cleve (given name) Cleve is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Cleve Benedict (born 1935), American retired politician
* Cleve Bryant (1947-2023), American college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio Universit ...
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Cleve (surname) Cleve, van Cleve and Van Cleve are surnames. Notable people with the surname include:
*Astrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish biologist, geologist, chemist and researcher, first woman in Sweden to obtain a doctorate in science
*Bastian Clevé (bor ...
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Schoolboy Cleve Schoolboy Cleve (June 10, 1928 – February 5, 2008), born Cleveland White, was an American blues harmonica player, who worked with Lightnin' Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy. He recorded with Lightnin' Slim in the mid-1950s, ...
(1925–2008), American harmonica player
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Cleve RFC
Cleve Rugby Football Club is an English amateur rugby union club founded in 1922 and based in Mangotsfield, Bristol. The club play in the seventh-tier of the English league system; Tribute Western Counties North. They are a member of the Brist ...
, an English amateur rugby union club
See also
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Anne of Cleves
Anne of Cleves (german: Anna von Kleve; 1515 – 16 July 1557) was Queen of England from 6 January to 12 July 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. Not much is known about Anne before 1527, when she became betrothed to Francis, Duke of ...
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Kleve (disambiguation) Kleve is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Kleve may also refer to other places in Germany:
* Kleve (district), a local government district in northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia
* Kleve (electoral district), a Bundestag electoral constit ...
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Cleave (disambiguation)
Cleave may refer to:
*Cleave (surname)
*Cleave (fiber), a controlled break in optical fiber
*RAF Cleave, was an airfield in the north of Cornwall, England, May 1939 - Nov 1945
*The process of protein cleaving as a form of post-translational modifi ...
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