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[roo-dolf; Ger. roo-dawlf] | 1218–91, king of Germany and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1273–91: founder of the Hapsburg dynasty. |
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r-kah-nuh] ) -na for 1. | 1. | a member of a seminomadic people of northwestern Kenya and bordering areas of Uganda. |
| 2. | the Nilotic language of the Turkana. |
| 3. | Lake. Formerly, Rudolf. a lake in E Africa, in NE Kenya. 185 mi. (298 km) long; 3500 sq. mi. (9100 sq. km). |
| Ru·dolf (rōō'dŏlf) Austrian crown prince. The controversially liberal heir to Francis Joseph I, he was found dead with his mistress in Mayerling, his hunting lodge near Vienna. Officially deemed a double suicide, the suspicious event was never fully investigated. |
| Rudolf, Lake See Lake Turkana. |
Rudolf
duke of Burgundy (921-936) and later king of the West Franks, or France (923-936), who, after a stormy career typical of the general political instability that characterized the age, succeeded in consolidating his authority shortly before he died.
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