The Duchy of Cleves was a State of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval Hettergau. It was situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine, around its capital Cleves and the towns of Wesel, Kalkar, Xanten, Emmerich, Rees and Duisburg bordering the lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west. Its history is closely related to that of its southern neighbours: the Duchies of Jülich and Berg, as well as Guelders and the Westphalian county of Mark. The Duchy was archaically known as Cleveland in English.
Schwanenburg Castle, Cleves
The Rhineland is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Deutsches Eck, Koblenz
Roman and barbarian parts of the Rhineland
Attack by the Swedish army on the Spanish troops in Bacharach during the Thirty Years' War