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The Ernestine Wettins, on the other hand, repeatedly subdivided their territory, creating an intricate patchwork of small duchies and counties in Thuringia. The Albertine Wettins ruled as Electors (1547–1806) and Kings of Saxony (1806–1918), and also played a role in Polish history – two Wettins were Kings of Poland (between 1697–1763 ...
The outcome of the comital war strengthened the position of the Wettins in Thuringia, although were unable to finally drive the Schwarzburgs and the advocates out of Thuringia and these vassals continued to play an important role until the end of the monarchy in Thuringia in 1918 (c.f. Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Reuß ...
I. Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, 1384–1440 C. Louis , Archbishop of Mainz, 1341–1382, died without issue D. William I, Margrave of Meissen , 1343–1407
Coat of arms of the Ernestines. The Ernestine duchies (German: Ernestinische Herzogtümer), also known as the Saxon duchies (Sächsische Herzogtümer, although the Albertine appanage duchies of Weissenfels, Merseburg and Zeitz were also "Saxon duchies" and adjacent to several Ernestine ones), were a group of small states whose number varied, which were largely located in the present-day German ...
Saxe-Altenburg had an area of 1,323 km 2 (510 sq. mi.) and a population of 207,000 in 1905. Its capital was Altenburg.. The duchy consisted of two separate areas: the Ostkreis, containing the cities of Altenburg, Schmölln, Gößnitz, Lucka und Meuselwitz (including the exclave of Mumsdorf), Roschütz, Hilbersdorf, Neukirchen by Waldenburg and Rußdorf by Chemnitz; and the Westkreis, which ...
In the 15th century, much of what is now the German state of Thuringia, including the area around Eisenach, was in the hands of the Wettin dynasty, since 1423 Prince-electors of Saxony. In 1485, the Wettin lands were divided according to the Treaty of Leipzig, with most of the Thuringian lands going to Elector Ernest of Saxony and his ...
Due to the Allied Agreements of Yalta, the state of Thuringia, with the exception of the exclave of Ostheim vor der Rhön, was occupied by Soviet troops between 2 and 6 July 1945. The country, now part of the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), was enlarged to 15,585 km 2 by the addition of the former Prussian Erfurt administrative district. The ...
Fibula found in Mühlhausen, 4th/5th century AD Ancient Germanic bone comb, Thuringia. The Thuringii, or Thuringians were a Germanic people [1] who lived in the kingdom of the Thuringians that appeared during the late Migration Period south of the Harz Mountains of central Germania, a region still known today as Thuringia.