Lech (river)
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The Lech is a river in Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube 255 kilometres in length with a drainage basin of 3,919 square kilometres. Its average discharge at the mouth is 115 m
The Lech in Augsburg
The Lech, in the background the city of Landsberg
The Lech between Weissenbach and Forchach
The Lech between Elmen and Stanzach
Battle of Lechfeld
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The Battle of Lechfeld, also known as the Second Battle of Lechfeld, was a series of military engagements over the course of three days from 10 to 12 August 955 in which the Kingdom of Germany, led by
Lech (river)
…In 278 Roman emperor Probus vanquished a larger invasion force of Burgundians and Vandals, which had been raiding the Roman province of Rhaetia. At Lechfeld, a stony plain between the Lech and the Wertach near Augsburg, Otto I defeated the Magyars in August 955. In the Battle of Rain in April 1632, Gustavus…
The Battle of Lechfeld, from a 1457 illustration in Sigmund Meisterlin's codex of Nuremberg history
Hungarian raids across Europe in the 10th century
The Hungarian campaign in Europe of 954
The Hungarian commander Lél. Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1828.