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17-506: Deut may refer to: Deut (coin) , an historical north German and Dutch coin Deut, another name for Kang Kek Iew An abbreviation for the Book of Deuteronomy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Deut . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

34-468: A stuiver and 160 duiten are equivalent to a guilder . When this value was applied in the Dutch East Indies colony in 1726, it was equivalent to a quarter of a stuiver (i.e. 4 duit = 1 stuiver). Originally duit coins were minted in copper, but proof coinage of the duit was also minted in silver and gold . The Dutch language has many expressions, proverbs and sayings which feature

51-762: A type of small coin. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) commissioned a special coin with a monogram engraved on it in order to prevent smuggling . The coin was first minted during the 17th century in the Dutch Republic and was issued in the Netherlands until the year 1816 when it was replaced by cents and ½ cents. Later it became an internationalized currency and was also issued in the Dutch East Indies , Dutch Ceylon and Dutch Malabar . Only these types of coins were valid for use in colonial-era Indonesia . The biggest destination for duit coins

68-664: 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. The duchy's territory roughly covered the present-day German districts of Cleves (northern part), Wesel and the city of Duisburg , as well as adjacent parts of the Limburg , North Brabant and Gelderland provinces in

85-817: The House of La Marck after Adolf's elder brother Count Engelbert III had died without issue in 1391. King Sigismund of Germany raised Count Adolph I to the status of a duke and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1417, and the county became a duchy . The Cleves-Mark territories became one of the most significant estates of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle in 1500, rivaled by the Prince-Bishops of Münster . In 1511 John III of La Marck , son of Duke John II of Cleves , married Maria and her estates and titles were then merged with

102-605: The Netherlands . In the early 11th century Emperor Henry II entrusted the administration of the Klever Reichswald , a large forested area around the Kaiserpfalz at Nijmegen directly subordinate to the Imperial rule, to local Lower Lorrainian nobles at Geldern and Kleve. A County of Cleves ( German : Grafschaft Kleve ; Dutch : Graafschap Kleef ) was first mentioned in the 11th century. Dietrich I

119-738: The "New York penny" due to its use as a Colonial monetary unit in Dutch New Amsterdam (later New York) and for years later, long after Dutch rule had passed. The Duit circulated also in the duchy of Cleves and Guelders , which may be the reason why in the 18th century the expression kein Deut entered the German language, meaning not a bit . Duchy of Cleves 51°47′N 6°8′E  /  51.783°N 6.133°E  / 51.783; 6.133 The Duchy of Cleves ( German : Herzogtum Kleve ; Dutch : Hertogdom Kleef )

136-601: The Duchy of Cleves. Upon the death of his father-in-law Duke William IV , John inherited the fiefs of Jülich and Berg through his wife. When John III succeeded his father as Duke of Cleves in 1521, the states of Jülich, Berge, Cleves and Mark formed the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg . His daughter Anne of Cleves (1515–1557) even became Queen Consort of England for a few months in 1540, as her brother William , duke since 1539, quarreled with Emperor Charles V over

153-785: The Great Elector Frederick William I of Brandenburg in 1666 and part of the Kingdom of Prussia after 1701, Cleves was occupied by French forces in the Seven Years' War (1757–1762). In the 1795 Peace of Basel the Duchy of Cleves west of the Rhine and Wesel was ceded to France , and became part of the French département of the Roer . The rest of the duchy was occupied between 1803 and 1805, and became part of

170-691: The Margrave of Brandenburg; Neuburg was a cadet branch of the House of Wittelsbach . According to the 1614 Treaty of Xanten , Brandenburg received Cleves-Mark and Neuburg received Jülich-Berg. The Hohenzollern margraves thereby got a first foothold in the Rhineland ; however, large parts of the Duchy of Cleves were occupied by the United Provinces until the Franco-Dutch War in 1672. Finally incorporated into Brandenburg-Prussia by

187-423: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deut&oldid=1139059871 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Deut (coin) Etymologically, the word duit comes from Middle Dutch and means

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204-515: The possession of Guelders and sought support from King Henry VIII . John William was the son of William and the last duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berge. He died without issue in 1609, and the War of the Jülich Succession broke out between the heirs of his two eldest sisters: Maria Eleonora, Duchess of Prussia , and Anna, Countess of Neuburg . Marie Eleonore's daughter Marie was married to

221-875: The puppet-state Grand Duchy of Berg . In 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon , the duchy became part of the Prussian Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg , which was combined with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine to form the Prussian Rhine Province in 1822. The cities Gennep , Zevenaar , and Huissen became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands as a result of the 1815 Congress of Vienna . The House of Cleves considers itself to be descended from Rutger von Antoing,

238-573: The word duit , including: As the monetary unit was widespread throughout the Malay archipelago, the word duit eventually was absorbed into Malay vocabulary becoming a slang word for 'money' besides wang ( Malaysian spelling) and uang ( Indonesian spelling). The Duit is also used in Dutch India making Duttu a slang for low denomination money in Tamil. The duit is also referred to as

255-601: Was Java . Duit was also used in parts of the Americas while under Dutch rule, such as New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) and Suriname ; and in Africa in the Dutch Cape Colony . The coin's name was preserved in the Netherlands for a long time as vierduitstuk (or 'plak' ), because it was worth 4 duiten = half a stuiver (or 2½ cents). According to its usage in the Netherlands, 8 duiten are equivalent to

272-659: Was a state of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval Hettergau  [ de ] . 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

289-620: Was the first Count of Cleves and reigned from 1092 through 1119. In 1283, Cleves fought in the War of the Limburg Succession and helped weaken the powerful Electorate of Cologne . In 1355 Zevenaar passed from the control of the Duchy of Guelders to the County of Cleves. Upon the death of Count Johann in 1368, the fief was inherited by his nephew Adolf III of the Marck . Cleves and the Marck were finally ruled in personal union by

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