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• Makkum (Friesland, Netherlands)
  town in the Dutch province of Friesland (coordinates: 53.05611, 5.40321 [53° 3′ 21″ N, 5° 24′ 11″ E]), close to the dike which shuts off the former Zuiderzee
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• West Prussia
  obligation of military service derived from the ownership of property. Accordingly, the purchase of property by Mennonites, whose number was constantly increasing
  47 KB (6,535 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
• Haarlem (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  been 15-20 per cent. In 1640 the Mennonite population was estimated at nearly 5,000 baptized members. The city was known as "the Mennonite Haarlem" because
  25 KB (3,540 words) - 07:28, 16 January 2017
• China, People's Republic of
  21.9% of the population in China are folk religionists, 18.2% are Buddhist, 5.1% are Christians, 1.8% are Muslims, 0.8% are of other religions, while unaffiliated
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• Mennonite Central Committee (International)
  Basel, Switzerland. The Ailsa Craig (Ontario) Boys Home was also owned property (since 1955). Three mental hospitals were owned and operated through an
  41 KB (5,673 words) - 08:52, 8 January 2024
• Lichtenau-Petershagen Mennonite Church (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  Petershagen, Ladekopp, some from Ohrloff and Tiege, making a total of approximately 5,000. The first meetinghouse at Lichtenau was built in 1826, a second and larger
  5 KB (662 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
• Business
  good of all. In some wings of Anabaptism, property was to be held in common, while in others private property was permissible, but it was to be at the disposal
  29 KB (4,146 words) - 22:58, 15 January 2017
• Midwest Mennonite Fellowship
  Ministries, a discipleship and counselling center in Plain City, Ohio. The property of the former Sunnyhaven Childrens' Home was given to the Fellowship in
  10 KB (777 words) - 13:00, 21 April 2020
• Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  took charge of the Buenos Aires congregation. The mission bought its first property in Buenos Aires in June 1946. Because of governmental regulations which
  6 KB (1,044 words) - 07:55, 27 October 2013
• Confiscation of Property
  of their faith; their property was also seized by the authorities. In the Netherlands during the time of persecution the property of martyrs who were sentenced
  8 KB (1,374 words) - 00:24, 16 January 2017
• Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  matter. Suddenly the sharpest persecution set in against the Anabaptists. On 5 March 1528, the unstable Elector Ludwig V, 1508-1544, upon the insistence of
  45 KB (5,948 words) - 12:32, 15 May 2019
• Salzburg (Austria)
  Salzburg. Indications of this are seen in the Neue Zeitung of 1528, whose author claims to have been an eyewitness: "Here (in Salzburg?) the guest Brethren
  15 KB (2,324 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
• Old Order Amish
  Kansas 6, with 343 members: Reno 5, Anderson 1; Ontario 5, with 260(?) members: Perth and Waterloo 3, Elgin 1, Grey 1; Michigan 5, with 226 members: St. Joseph
  42 KB (5,898 words) - 14:36, 17 March 2023
• Orenburg Mennonite Settlement (Orenburg Oblast, Russia)
  although not as much as some of the Mennonites of the Ukraine. Requisitions of property, grain, horses, etc., were common. In 1921 the Settlement experienced a
  25 KB (3,660 words) - 00:54, 16 January 2017
• Community
  values of neighborliness, honesty, self-reliance, and reverence for life and property were most persistently developed. It is in this respect that Mennonite
  31 KB (4,471 words) - 18:26, 8 September 2021
• Huizen (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  Dutch province of North Holland, east of Amsterdam (coordinates: 52° 18′ 0″ N, 5° 13′ 48″ E), formerly the seat of a Mennonite congregation, sometimes also
  3 KB (394 words) - 01:18, 16 October 2014
• Capitalism
  minimization of the role of the state, and the institution of private property . . ." (Hoover, 294-5). Adam Smith (1723-90) proposed that the seeds of capitalism
  10 KB (1,414 words) - 22:58, 15 January 2017
• Bayern Federal State (Germany)
  beheaded there 13 August 1585; Leonhard Sumerauer, beheaded at Burghausen 5 July 1585; Christian Geiger, beheaded at Munich 13 September 1586 (Oesterreichisches
  19 KB (2,363 words) - 18:19, 19 April 2021
• Reformation, Protestant
  torture and to sentences of death, imprisonment, exile, or confiscation of property. Such incessant pressure eventually broke the dynamism of many Anabaptist
  26 KB (3,493 words) - 01:20, 1 December 2014
• Congo, Democratic Republic of
  the east. The Congo Free State was formed in 1885 as the personal private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. Belgium took over the free state as a Belgian
  19 KB (2,435 words) - 14:16, 15 September 2021

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