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Teutonic Ordern.（名词）- An order of German knights, priests, and lay brothers founded in the late 12th century that sought to expand Christendom through missions and conquest and built numerous towns which it then governed as nobility. After being defeated by Poles and Lithuanians at the battle of Tannenberg (1410), its strength waned, and today it survives as a charitable clerical organization.条顿骑士团规约：12世纪时由德国骑士、教士及一般修道士所组成的一种军团，其致力于寻求透过传教、征服及筑城自立为领主的方式来扩张基督教国家。于公元1410年，在坦嫩贝格之战遭波兰人及立陶宛人击败后，其势力遭到瓦解，目前则成为一从事慈善行为的牧师团体
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