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Saxe-Altenburg <small>(1918–1920)</small><br /><small><i>Freistaat Sachsen-Altenburg</i></small></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">1602–1672<br />1826–1920</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="noresize" style="display:table; width:100%;"> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding-left:5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_white_green_5x3.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Saxe-Altenburg"><img alt="Flag of Saxe-Altenburg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_white_green_5x3.svg/125px-Flag_white_green_5x3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_white_green_5x3.svg/188px-Flag_white_green_5x3.svg.png 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Duchy_of_Saxe-Altenburg.svg/143px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Duchy_of_Saxe-Altenburg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Duchy_of_Saxe-Altenburg.svg/190px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Duchy_of_Saxe-Altenburg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1461" data-file-height="1550" /></a></span></div> <div>Coat of arms</div> </div> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Saxe-Altenburg_in_the_German_Reich_(1871).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Saxe-Altenburg within the German Empire   The Ernestine duchies after 1825, with Saxe-Altenburg in orange"><img alt="Saxe-Altenburg within the German Empire   The Ernestine duchies after 1825, with Saxe-Altenburg in orange" 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class="ib-country-religion"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Government</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Duchy" title="Duchy">Duchy</a> (1602–1918)<br /><a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">Republic</a> (1918–1920)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Duke</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• 1603–1613 </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johann_Philipp,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Johann Philipp</a> <span 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class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Personal_union" title="Personal union">Personal union</a> with <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha" title="Saxe-Gotha">Saxe-Gotha</a>* </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1672–1825</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Ernestine_duchies" title="Ernestine duchies">Ernestine duchies</a> rearranged, duchy restored </div></th><td class="infobox-data">12 November 1826</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319" class="mw-redirect" title="German Revolution of 1918–19">German Revolution</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">November 1918</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Merger of <a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a>‡ </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1920</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width:95%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border:0; padding-bottom:0"><div id="before-after"></div> <b>Preceded by</b></td> <td style="text-align:center;border:0; padding-bottom:0;"><b>Succeeded by</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; border:0;"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Gro%C3%9Fherzogin_Sachsen-Weimar.svg/20px-Gro%C3%9Fherzogin_Sachsen-Weimar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Gro%C3%9Fherzogin_Sachsen-Weimar.svg/30px-Gro%C3%9Fherzogin_Sachsen-Weimar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Gro%C3%9Fherzogin_Sachsen-Weimar.svg/40px-Gro%C3%9Fherzogin_Sachsen-Weimar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Weimar" title="Saxe-Weimar">Saxe-Weimar</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;border:0;"> <table style="width:92%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Thuringia_%28state%29.svg/20px-Flag_of_Thuringia_%28state%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Thuringia_%28state%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Thuringia_%28state%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Thuringia_%28state%29.svg/40px-Flag_of_Thuringia_%28state%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Today part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-country-fn">* <i>See <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg" title="Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg">Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg</a></i><br />† As Free State of Saxe-Altenburg<br />‡ In 1920, the <a href="/wiki/States_of_the_German_Empire" title="States of the German Empire">ex-Imperial states</a> of Saxe-Altenburg, <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Meiningen" title="Saxe-Meiningen">Saxe-Meiningen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxe-Coburg-Gotha">Saxe-Coburg-Gotha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach" title="Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach">Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen" title="Schwarzburg-Sondershausen">Schwarzburg-Sondershausen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt" title="Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt">Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt</a> and the two principalities of <a href="/wiki/Reu%C3%9F" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuß">Reuß</a> all merged to form the Free State of <a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Saxe-Altenburg</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Sachsen-Altenburg</i>) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the <a href="/wiki/Ernestine_duchies" title="Ernestine duchies">Ernestine</a> branch of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Wettin" title="House of Wettin">House of Wettin</a> in present-day <a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tacitus_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tacitus-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was one of the smallest of the German states with an area of 1323 square kilometers and a population of 207,000 (1905) of whom about one fifth resided in the capital, <a href="/wiki/Altenburg" title="Altenburg">Altenburg</a>. The territory of the duchy consisted of two non-contiguous territories separated by land belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Gera" title="Principality of Reuss-Gera">Principality of Reuss-Gera</a>. Its economy was based on agriculture, forestry, and small industry. The state had a constitutional monarchical form of government with a parliament composed of thirty members chosen by male taxpayers over 25 years of age. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Territory">Territory</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Territory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Saxe-Altenburg had an area of 1,323 km<sup>2</sup> (510 sq. mi.) and a population of 207,000 in 1905. Its capital was <a href="/wiki/Altenburg" title="Altenburg">Altenburg</a>. </p><p>The duchy consisted of two separate areas: the Ostkreis, containing the cities of <a href="/wiki/Altenburg" title="Altenburg">Altenburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schm%C3%B6lln" title="Schmölln">Schmölln</a>, <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6%C3%9Fnitz" title="Gößnitz">Gößnitz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucka" title="Lucka">Lucka</a> und <a href="/wiki/Meuselwitz" title="Meuselwitz">Meuselwitz</a> (including the exclave of Mumsdorf), <a href="/wiki/Gera" title="Gera">Roschütz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hilbersdorf" title="Hilbersdorf">Hilbersdorf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oberwiera" title="Oberwiera">Neukirchen</a> by <a href="/wiki/Waldenburg,_Saxony" title="Waldenburg, Saxony">Waldenburg</a> and Rußdorf by <a href="/wiki/Chemnitz" title="Chemnitz">Chemnitz</a>; and the Westkreis, which contained the cities of <a href="/wiki/Eisenberg,_Thuringia" title="Eisenberg, Thuringia">Eisenberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kahla" title="Kahla">Kahla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orlam%C3%BCnde" title="Orlamünde">Orlamünde</a> und <a href="/wiki/Stadtroda" title="Stadtroda">Roda</a> (including the exclave of Ammelstädt). The Ostkreis roughly corresponds to the modern <a href="/wiki/Altenburger_Land" title="Altenburger Land">Altenburger Land</a> district of Thuringia, plus the area around <a href="/wiki/Ronneburg,_Thuringia" title="Ronneburg, Thuringia">Ronneburg</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greiz_(district)" title="Greiz (district)">Greiz</a>. The Westkreis is now mostly in <a href="/wiki/Saale-Holzland-Kreis" title="Saale-Holzland-Kreis">Saale-Holzland district</a>, with small portions in neighbouring districts. The duchy contained the <a href="/wiki/Plei%C3%9Fe" title="Pleiße">Pleiße</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saale" title="Saale">Saale</a> rivers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map-saxony1900.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Map-saxony1900.png/220px-Map-saxony1900.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Map-saxony1900.png/330px-Map-saxony1900.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Map-saxony1900.png/440px-Map-saxony1900.png 2x" data-file-width="3653" data-file-height="2538" /></a><figcaption><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#ce7e30; color:black;"> </span> Saxe-Altenburg in the 19th century, shown in relation to the Kingdom of Saxony (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend nowrap"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#fcfca7; color:black;"> </span> pale yellow</span>)</div></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG/220px-Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG/330px-Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG/440px-Schloss_Altenburg_02.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Castle of <a href="/wiki/Altenburg" title="Altenburg">Altenburg</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The duchy had its origins in the medieval Burgraviate of <a href="/wiki/Altenburg" title="Altenburg">Altenburg</a> in the Imperial <a href="/wiki/Pleissnerland" title="Pleissnerland">Pleissnerland</a> <i>(Terra Plisensis)</i>, a possession of the Wettin <a href="/wiki/Margraviate_of_Meissen" class="mw-redirect" title="Margraviate of Meissen">Margraves of Meissen</a> since 1243. Following the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Leipzig" title="Treaty of Leipzig">partition of Leipzig</a> in 1485, Altenburg fell to <a href="/wiki/Ernst,_Elector_of_Saxony" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernst, Elector of Saxony">Ernst, Elector of Saxony</a>, the progenitor of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernestine_Wettins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernestine Wettins (page does not exist)">Ernestine Wettins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Capitulation_of_Wittenberg" title="Capitulation of Wittenberg">Capitulation of Wittenberg</a> in 1547, the area around Altenburg went to the <a href="/wiki/Albertine_branch" title="Albertine branch">Albertine</a> <a href="/wiki/Electorate_of_Saxony" title="Electorate of Saxony">Electorate of Saxony</a>, but it was transferred to the Ernestine <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Saxony_(1547-1572)" class="mw-redirect" title="Duchy of Saxony (1547-1572)">Duchy of Saxony</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogtum_Sachsen_(1547%E2%80%931572)" class="extiw" title="de:Herzogtum Sachsen (1547–1572)">de</a>]</span> in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Naumburg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Treaty of Naumburg (page does not exist)">Treaty of Naumburg</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Naumburg" class="extiw" title="de:Treaty of Naumburg">de</a>]</span> in 1554, and then to the Duchy of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Weimar" title="Saxe-Weimar">Saxe-Weimar</a> following the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Partition_of_Erfurt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Partition of Erfurt (page does not exist)">Partition of Erfurt</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurter_Teilung" class="extiw" title="de:Erfurter Teilung">de</a>]</span> in 1572. </p><p>When Johann Wilhelm's son and successor <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_I,_Duke_of_Saxe-Weimar" title="Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar">Friedrich Wilhelm I</a> died in 1602, the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar passed to his younger brother <a href="/wiki/Johann_II,_Duke_of_Saxe-Weimar" title="Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar">Johann II</a>. In 1603 Frederick William's eldest son <a href="/wiki/Johann_Philipp,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Johann Philipp</a> received the newly created <b>Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg</b> as compensation. It was an <a href="/wiki/Imperial_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial State">Imperial State</a> in its own right, with a vote in the <i><a href="/wiki/Reichstag_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reichstag (Holy Roman Empire)">Reichstag</a></i>, for much of the 17th century until the extinction of its ruling line in 1672 when it was inherited by <a href="/wiki/Ernst_I,_Duke_of_Saxe-Gotha" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha">Ernest I the Pious</a>, the Duke of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha" title="Saxe-Gotha">Saxe-Gotha</a>, who had married the heiress. </p><p>Saxe-Altenburg thereafter remained part of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg" title="Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg">Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg</a> until the extinction of that house in 1825, when Gotha and Altenburg were divided up, with Gotha going to the Duke of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld</a> and Altenburg to the Duke of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Hildburghausen" title="Saxe-Hildburghausen">Saxe-Hildburghausen</a>, who in exchange gave up Hildburghausen to the Duke of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Meiningen" title="Saxe-Meiningen">Saxe-Meiningen</a>. This family ruled the duchy until the end of the monarchies in the course of the <a href="/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319" class="mw-redirect" title="German Revolution of 1918–19">German Revolution of 1918–19</a>. The succeeding <b>Free State of Saxe-Altenburg</b> was incorporated into the new state of <a href="/wiki/Thuringia" title="Thuringia">Thuringia</a> in 1920. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dukes_of_Saxe-Altenburg">Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elder_line">Elder line</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Elder line"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Philipp,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1603–1639)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_II,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1639–1669)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_III,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1669–1672)</li></ul> <p>Line extinct, inherited by <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha" title="Saxe-Gotha">Saxe-Gotha</a>, thereupon <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg" title="Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg">Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Junior_line">Junior line</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Junior line"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1826–1834) <i>(Previously Duke of <a href="/wiki/Saxe-Hildburghausen" title="Saxe-Hildburghausen">Saxe-Hildburghausen</a>)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1834–1848)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1848–1853)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_I,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1853–1908)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_II,_Duke_of_Saxe-Altenburg" title="Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg">Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg</a> (1908–1918)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secondary_residences_of_the_Dukes_of_Saxe-Altenburg">Secondary residences of the Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Secondary residences of the Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 190px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Eisenberg,_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Christiansburg Castle at Eisenberg"><img alt="Christiansburg Castle at Eisenberg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Eisenberg%2C_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG/200px-Eisenberg%2C_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Eisenberg%2C_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG/300px-Eisenberg%2C_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Eisenberg%2C_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG/400px-Eisenberg%2C_Schloss_Christiansburg.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2052" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Christiansburg Castle at <a href="/wiki/Eisenberg,_Thuringia" title="Eisenberg, Thuringia">Eisenberg</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 190px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wolfersdorf Castle"><img alt="Wolfersdorf Castle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg/200px-Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg/300px-Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg/400px-Schloss_zur_froelichen_wiederkunft_IMG_3141.jpg 2x" data-file-width="840" data-file-height="630" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf" title="Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf">Wolfersdorf</a> Castle</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 190px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:September_2016_ohne_WZ_(17_von_30).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Old Hunting Lodge at Hummelshain"><img alt="The Old Hunting Lodge at Hummelshain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/September_2016_ohne_WZ_%2817_von_30%29.jpg/200px-September_2016_ohne_WZ_%2817_von_30%29.jpg" decoding="async" 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Tacitus Historical Atlas<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-05-19</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Historical+Atlas&rft.atitle=The+Ernestine+Line%27s+Saxon+Duchies&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tacitus.nu%2Fhistorical-atlas%2Fregents%2Fgermany%2Fsaxony2.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASaxe-Altenburg" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerbermann1913" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Saxe-Altenburg"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Saxe-Altenburg">"Saxe-Altenburg" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Saxe-Altenburg&rft.btitle=Catholic+Encyclopedia&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Robert+Appleton+Company&rft.date=1913&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASaxe-Altenburg" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saxe-Altenburg&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. 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title="Principality of Anhalt">Anhalt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anhalt-Bernburg" title="Anhalt-Bernburg">Bernburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anhalt-Dessau" title="Anhalt-Dessau">Dessau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anhalt-K%C3%B6then" title="Anhalt-Köthen">Köthen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Anhalt-Zerbst" title="Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst">Zerbst</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barby,_Germany" title="Barby, Germany">Barby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gleichen" title="Gleichen">Hatzfeld-Gleichen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Pomerania" title="Duchy of Pomerania">Pomerania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Farther_Pomerania" title="Farther Pomerania">Further</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Pomerania" title="Western Pomerania">Hither</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Querfurt" title="Querfurt">Querfurt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuss_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuss (state)">Reuss</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reuss_Elder_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuss Elder Line">Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuss_Younger_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuss Younger Line">Junior</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Saxe-Altenburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg">Saxe-Altenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg" title="Saxe-Coburg">Saxe-Coburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Eisenach" title="Saxe-Eisenach">Saxe-Eisenach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha" title="Saxe-Gotha">Saxe-Gotha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Weimar" title="Saxe-Weimar">Saxe-Weimar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_of_Schwarzburg" class="mw-redirect" title="County of Schwarzburg">Schwarzburg</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt" title="Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt">Rudolstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen" title="Schwarzburg-Sondershausen">Sondershausen</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prince-abbot" 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title="Mansfeld Land">Mansfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nburg_(Saale)" title="Schönburg (Saale)">Schönburg (Saale)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_of_Stolberg" title="County of Stolberg">Stolberg</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stolberg-Stolberg" title="Stolberg-Stolberg">Stolberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stolberg-Wernigerode" title="Stolberg-Wernigerode">Wernigerode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stolberg-Rossla" title="Stolberg-Rossla">Rossla</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>Circles est. 1500: <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_Circle" title="Bavarian Circle">Bavarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swabian_Circle" title="Swabian Circle">Swabian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Rhenish_Circle" title="Upper Rhenish Circle">Upper Rhenish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lower_Rhenish%E2%80%93Westphalian_Circle" title="Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle">Lower Rhenish–Westphalian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franconian_Circle" title="Franconian Circle">Franconian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxon_Circle" title="Lower Saxon Circle">(Lower) Saxon</a><br />Circles est. 1512: <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Circle" title="Austrian Circle">Austrian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burgundian_Circle" title="Burgundian Circle">Burgundian</a>, <b>Upper Saxon</b>, <a href="/wiki/Electoral_Rhenish_Circle" title="Electoral Rhenish Circle">Electoral Rhenish</a> <span class="nowrap">   </span> · <span class="nowrap">   </span> <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_Holy_Roman_Empire_outside_the_Imperial_Circles" title="Territories of the Holy Roman Empire outside the Imperial Circles">Unencircled territories</a><br /> See also: <a href="/wiki/Ernestine_duchies" title="Ernestine duchies">Ernestine duchies</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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Hanover">Hanover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Kingdom of Württemberg">Württemberg</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Electorates</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Electorate_of_Hesse" title="Electorate of Hesse">Hesse-Kassel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Grand duchies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Baden" title="Grand Duchy of Baden">Baden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Hesse" title="Grand Duchy of Hesse">Hesse-Darmstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin" title="Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin">Mecklenburg-Schwerin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Oldenburg" title="Grand Duchy of Oldenburg">Oldenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach" title="Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach">Weimar-Eisenach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Duchies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Brunswick" title="Duchy of Brunswick">Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Holstein" title="Duchy of Holstein">Holstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Limburg_(1839%E2%80%931867)" title="Duchy of Limburg (1839–1867)">Limburg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(from 1839)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Nassau" title="Duchy of Nassau">Nassau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Lauenburg" title="Saxe-Lauenburg">Lauenburg</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Ascania" title="House of Ascania">Anhalt (Ascania)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Anhalt" title="Duchy of Anhalt">Anhalt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(from 1863)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anhalt-Bernburg" title="Anhalt-Bernburg">Bernburg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1863)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anhalt-Dessau" title="Anhalt-Dessau">Dessau</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1863)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anhalt-K%C3%B6then" title="Anhalt-Köthen">Köthen</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1847)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ernestine_duchies" title="Ernestine duchies">Ernestine duchies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Altenburg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(from 1826)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Coburg-Saalfeld</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1826)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Saxe-Coburg and Gotha">Coburg-Gotha</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(from 1826)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg" title="Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg">Gotha-Altenburg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1826)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Hildburghausen" title="Saxe-Hildburghausen">Hildburghausen</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1826)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Meiningen" title="Saxe-Meiningen">Meiningen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Principalities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hesse-Homburg" title="Hesse-Homburg">Hesse-Homburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liechtenstein" title="Liechtenstein">Liechtenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Lippe" title="Principality of Lippe">Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Schaumburg-Lippe" title="Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe">Schaumburg-Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldeck_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waldeck (state)">Waldeck and Pyrmont</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Imperial_County_of_Reuss" title="Imperial County of Reuss">Reuss</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reuss-Ebersdorf" title="Reuss-Ebersdorf">Reuss-Ebersdorf</a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1824)</span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuss-Lobenstein" title="Reuss-Lobenstein">Reuss-Lobenstein</a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1824)</span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuss-Ebersdorf" title="Reuss-Ebersdorf">Reuß-Lobenstein und Ebersdorf </a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1824-1848)</span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Gera" title="Principality of Reuss-Gera">Reuss-Gera <small>(Junior Line)</small></a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(from 1848)</span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Greiz" title="Principality of Reuss-Greiz">Reuss-Greiz <small>(Elder Line)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuss-Schleiz" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuss-Schleiz">Reuss-Schleiz</a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1848)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Hohenzollern" title="House of Hohenzollern">Hohenzollern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hohenzollern-Hechingen" title="Hohenzollern-Hechingen">Hechingen</a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1850)</span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen" title="Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen">Sigmaringen</a> <span class="nobold"><span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1850)</span></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Schwarzburg" title="House of Schwarzburg">Schwarzburg</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt" title="Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt">Rudolstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen" title="Schwarzburg-Sondershausen">Sondershausen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Free cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bremen_(state)" title="Bremen (state)">Bremen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_City_of_Frankfurt" title="Free City of Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Free_and_Hanseatic_City_of_L%C3%BCbeck" title="History of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck">Lübeck</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><sup><small>1</small></sup> partially</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="States_of_the_North_German_Confederation_(1866–1871)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kingdoms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Saxony" title="Kingdom of Saxony">Saxony</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NB_1866-1871.99.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Map of the North German Confederation"><img alt="Map of the North German Confederation" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/NB_1866-1871.99.svg/175px-NB_1866-1871.99.svg.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/NB_1866-1871.99.svg/263px-NB_1866-1871.99.svg.png 1.5x, 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Lippe" title="Principality of Lippe">Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Gera" title="Principality of Reuss-Gera">Reuss-Gera <small>(Junior Line)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Greiz" title="Principality of Reuss-Greiz">Reuss-Greiz <small>(Elder Line)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Schaumburg-Lippe" title="Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe">Schaumburg-Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt" title="Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt">Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen" title="Schwarzburg-Sondershausen">Schwarzburg-Sondershausen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont" title="Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont">Waldeck and Pyrmont</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">City-states</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bremen_(state)" title="Bremen (state)">Bremen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Free_and_Hanseatic_City_of_L%C3%BCbeck" title="History of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck">Lübeck</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="States_of_the_German_Empire_(1871–1918)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kingdoms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Bavaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a> as a whole <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Brandenburg" title="Province of Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Prussia" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Hanover" title="Province of Hanover">Hanover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Hesse-Nassau" title="Province of Hesse-Nassau">Hesse-Nassau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Hohenzollern" title="Province of Hohenzollern">Hohenzollern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Pomerania_(1815%E2%80%931945)" title="Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)">Pomerania</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(including the <a href="/wiki/Lauenburg_and_B%C3%BCtow_Land" title="Lauenburg and Bütow Land">Lauenburg and Bütow Land</a> and the former <a href="/wiki/Starostwo_of_Draheim" title="Starostwo of Draheim">Starostwo of Draheim</a>)</span>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Posen" title="Province of Posen">Posen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhine_Province" title="Rhine Province">Rhineland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Saxony" title="Province of Saxony">Saxony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Schleswig-Holstein" title="Province of Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Silesia" title="Province of Silesia">Silesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Westphalia" title="Province of Westphalia">Westphalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Prussia" title="West Prussia">West Prussia</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Saxony" title="Kingdom of Saxony">Saxony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Kingdom of Württemberg">Württemberg</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="7" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Deutsches_Reich_(1871-1918)-en.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Map of the German Empire"><img alt="Map of the German Empire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Deutsches_Reich_%281871-1918%29-en.png/175px-Deutsches_Reich_%281871-1918%29-en.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Deutsches_Reich_%281871-1918%29-en.png/263px-Deutsches_Reich_%281871-1918%29-en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Deutsches_Reich_%281871-1918%29-en.png/350px-Deutsches_Reich_%281871-1918%29-en.png 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="2362" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Grand_duchy" title="Grand duchy">Grand Duchies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Baden" title="Grand Duchy of Baden">Baden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Hesse" title="Grand Duchy of Hesse">Hesse-Darmstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin" title="Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin">Mecklenburg-Schwerin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Oldenburg" title="Grand Duchy of Oldenburg">Oldenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach" title="Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach">Weimar-Eisenach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Duchy" title="Duchy">Duchies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Anhalt" title="Duchy of Anhalt">Anhalt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Brunswick" title="Duchy of Brunswick">Brunswick</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Altenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Saxe-Coburg and Gotha">Coburg-Gotha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Lauenburg" title="Saxe-Lauenburg">Lauenburg</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(until 1876)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxe-Meiningen" title="Saxe-Meiningen">Meiningen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">Principalities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Lippe" title="Principality of Lippe">Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Gera" title="Principality of Reuss-Gera">Reuss-Gera <span style="font-size:85%;">(Junior Line)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Reuss-Greiz" title="Principality of Reuss-Greiz">Reuss-Greiz <span style="font-size:85%;">(Elder Line)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Schaumburg-Lippe" title="Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe">Schaumburg-Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt" title="Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt">Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen" title="Schwarzburg-Sondershausen">Schwarzburg-Sondershausen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont" title="Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont">Waldeck and Pyrmont</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">City-states</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bremen_(state)" title="Bremen (state)">Bremen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Free_and_Hanseatic_City_of_L%C3%BCbeck" title="History of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck">Lübeck</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Imperial Territories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alsace%E2%80%93Lorraine" title="Alsace–Lorraine">Alsace–Lorraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_colonial_empire" title="German colonial empire">German colonial empire</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Anhalt" title="Free State of Anhalt">Anhalt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Baden" title="Republic of Baden">Baden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Brunswick" title="Free State of Brunswick">Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_State_of_Hesse" title="People's State of Hesse">Hesse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Lippe" title="Free State of Lippe">Lippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin" title="Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin">Mecklenburg-Schwerin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" title="Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz">Mecklenburg-Strelitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Oldenburg" title="Free State of Oldenburg">Oldenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_State_of_Prussia" title="Free State of Prussia">Prussia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a></li> 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