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Battenberg
49.5331°N 8.1381°E · Q22966
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Battenberg. It sits in Germany.
Battenbergnoun · 19th century
Well attestedThe checked cake is named for a German village, by way of a royal wedding.
The cake is generally said to honour the 1884 marriage of Princess Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg, whose family took its name from the Hessian village.
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Battenberg cakenoun · late 19th century
ProbableThe checkerboard cake is named for a small German town almost nobody visits.
The usual account ties it to the 1884 marriage of a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg, whose title came from a town in Hesse. The family anglicized itself to Mountbatten during the First World War; the cake kept the German name.
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