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Principality of Anhalt

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The Principality of Anhalt (Fürstentum Anhalt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, located in Central Germany, in what is today part of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. [1]

60 relations: Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Albert II of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Alexisbad, Anhalt (disambiguation), Anhalt Castle, Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Harzgerode, Anhalt-Köthen, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Germany, Archbishopric of Bremen, Ballenstedt, Battle of Stockach (1799), Bernhard, Count of Anhalt, Bundesstraße 185, Catherine the Great, Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt, Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duchy of Saxony, Eastphalia, Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electoral Circle, English landscape garden, Esico of Ballenstedt, Falkenstein, Saxony-Anhalt, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, Friedrich von Wendt, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Gernrode, Harzgerode, Henry I, Count of Anhalt, History of Saxony-Anhalt, House of Ascania, Imperial election, 1562, John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Köthen (Anhalt), List of rulers of Saxony, List of sovereign states in 1528, List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (A), List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (N), March of Lusatia, Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000, Moses Mendelssohn, Principality of Anhalt, Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben, Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prussian Crusade, ..., Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Saint Cyriakus, Gernrode, Saxe-Lauenburg, Saxon Eastern March, Schwabengau, Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Upper Saxon Circle, Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Zerbst. Expand index (10 more) »

Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Albert I (died 17 August 1316) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and the second ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1298 until his death.

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Albert II of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Albert II of Brunswick-Lüneburg (–1358), a member of the House of Welf, was Prince-Bishop of Halberstadt from 1325 until his death.

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Alexisbad

Alexisbad is a small spa town, part of Harzgerode in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Anhalt (disambiguation)

Anhalt, a historical region of Germany, has formed part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 1990.

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Anhalt Castle

Anhalt Castle (Burg Anhalt) is a ruined medieval fortification near the town of Harzgerode in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Anhalt-Bernburg

Anhalt-Bernburg was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and a duchy of the German Confederation ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Bernburg in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.

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Anhalt-Dessau

Anhalt-Dessau was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and later a duchy of the German Confederation.

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Anhalt-Harzgerode

Anhalt-Harzgerode was a small principality of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Harzgerode in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.

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Anhalt-Köthen

Anhalt-Köthen was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania.

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Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg

Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (13 June 1672 – 15 October 1741) was the legal Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg in the eyes of the Holy Roman Emperor, the overlord of Saxe-Lauenburg, from 1689 until 1728; however, because her distant cousin George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, conquered the duchy by force in 1689, she exercised no control over the territory, instead living in her manors in Bohemia.

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Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Germany

The Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Germany (Vicariatus Apostolicus Germaniae Septentrionalis) was known for most of its existence as the Vicariate Apostolic of the Northern (or Nordic) Missions (Vicariatus Apostolicus Missionum Septentrionalium), established on 28 April 1667.

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Archbishopric of Bremen

The Archdiocese of Bremen (also Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, Erzbistum Bremen, not to be confused with the modern Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994) is a historical Roman Catholic diocese (787–1566/1648) and formed from 1180 to 1648 an ecclesiastical state (continued under other names until 1823), named Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (Erzstift Bremen) within the Holy Roman Empire.

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Ballenstedt

Ballenstedt is a town in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Battle of Stockach (1799)

The Battle of Stockach occurred on 25 March 1799, when French and Austrian armies fought for control of the geographically strategic Hegau region in present-day Baden-Württemberg.

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Bernhard, Count of Anhalt

Bernhard (– 2 February 1212), a member of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, and Lord of Bernburg through his paternal inheritance.

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Bundesstraße 185

The Bundesstraße 185 (abbreviation: B 185) is a German federal road or Bundesstraße in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; –), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader.

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Dessau

Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Duchy of Anhalt

The Duchy of Anhalt (Herzogtum Anhalt) was a historical German duchy.

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Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg

The Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg was a medieval duchy of the Holy Roman Empire centered at Wittenberg, which emerged after the dissolution of the stem duchy of Saxony.

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Duchy of Saxony

The Duchy of Saxony (Hartogdom Sassen, Herzogtum Sachsen) was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire (Francia) by 804.

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Eastphalia

Eastphalia (Ostfalen; Eastphalian: Oostfalen) is a historical region in northern Germany, encompassing the eastern Gaue (shires) of the historic stem duchy of Saxony, roughly confined by the River Leine in the west and the Elbe and Saale in the east.

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Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst

Eleonore of Anhalt-Zerbst (10 November 1608, in Zerbst – 2 November 1681, in Østerholm Castle, Als) was a member of the House of Ascania and a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by birth and by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg.

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Electoral Circle

The Electoral Circle (Kurkreis), which was renamed in 1807 to the Wittenberg Circle (Wittenberger Kreis), was a historical territory that mostly emerged from the heartlands of the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Esico of Ballenstedt

Esico of Ballenstedt (died around 1060) is the progenitor of the House of Ascania, i.e., the oldest known member of the dynasty, and during his life was the count of Ballenstedt.

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Falkenstein, Saxony-Anhalt

Falkenstein/Harz is a town in the Harz district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor (1619–1637), King of Bohemia (1617–1619, 1620–1637), and King of Hungary (1618–1637).

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Friedrich von Wendt

Friedrich von Wendt (28 September 1738 in Sorau – 24 September 1818 in Erlangen) was a German physician.

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George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

George William Georg Wilhelm (Herzberg am Harz, 26 January 1624 – 28 August 1705, Wienhausen) was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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Gernrode

Gernrode is a historic town and former municipality in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Harzgerode

Harzgerode is a town in the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Henry I, Count of Anhalt

Henry I (1170 – 1252), a member of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt from 1212 and the first ruling Anhalt prince from 1218 until his death.

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History of Saxony-Anhalt

The history of Saxony-Anhalt began with Old Saxony, which was conquered by Charlemagne in 804 and transformed into the Duchy of Saxony within the Carolingian Empire.

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House of Ascania

The House of Ascania (Askanier) is a dynasty of German rulers.

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Imperial election, 1562

The imperial election of 1562 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

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John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

John George I of Anhalt-Dessau (9 May 1567 – 24 May 1618) was a German prince of the House of Ascania.

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Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Julius Francis (16 September 1641 – 30 September 1689) was duke of Saxe-Lauenburg between 1666 and 1689.

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Köthen (Anhalt)

Köthen (Anhalt) is a city in Germany.

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List of rulers of Saxony

This article lists dukes, electors, and kings ruling over different territories named Saxony from the beginning of the Saxon Duchy in the 9th century to the end of the Saxon Kingdom in 1918.

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List of sovereign states in 1528

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List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (A)

This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter A.

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List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (N)

This is a list of states in the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the letter N.

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March of Lusatia

The March or Margraviate of Lusatia (Mark(grafschaft) Lausitz) was as an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian Slavs.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000

019 | 6019 Telford || || Thomas Telford (1757–1834), a Scottish civil engineer and famed builder of roads, canals, bridges, tunnels and harbors.

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Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

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Principality of Anhalt

The Principality of Anhalt (Fürstentum Anhalt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, located in Central Germany, in what is today part of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Anhalt-Aschersleben was a short-lived principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Aschersleben in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.

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Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst

Anhalt-Zerbst was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania, with its residence at Zerbst in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.

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Prussian Crusade

The Prussian Crusade was a series of 13th-century campaigns of Roman Catholic crusaders, primarily led by the Teutonic Knights, to Christianize the pagan Old Prussians.

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Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst (Harzgerode, 28 October 1576 – Zerbst, 30 July 1621), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the unified Principality of Anhalt.

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Saint Cyriakus, Gernrode

Saint Cyriakus (German: Stiftskirche St. Cyriakus) is a medieval church in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Saxe-Lauenburg

The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (Herzogtum Sachsen-Lauenburg, called Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) between the 14th and 17th centuries), was a reichsfrei duchy that existed 1296–1803 and 1814–1876 in the extreme southeast region of what is now Schleswig-Holstein.

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Saxon Eastern March

The Saxon Eastern March (Sächsische Ostmark) was a march of the Holy Roman Empire from the 10th until the 12th century.

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Schwabengau

The Schwabengau (modernized name; originally: Suavia, Suevon, Nordosquavi) was an early medieval shire (Gau) in the Eastphalia region of the medieval Duchy of Saxony.

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Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Siegfried I (– 25 March 1298), a member of the House of Ascania, ruled as the first Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1252 until his death.

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Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen

Siegfried of Anhalt or Siegfried of Ballenstedt (c. 1132 – 24 October 1184) was born as the third son of Sophie of Winzenburg and her husband Albert the Bear, then Count of Anhalt, of the House of Ascania.

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Upper Saxon Circle

The Upper Saxon Circle (Obersächsischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1512.

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Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

Waldemar the Great (Waldemar der Große; – 14 August 1319), a member of the House of Ascania, was Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal from 1308 until his death.

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Zerbst

Zerbst (Serbišćo in Sorbian) is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Redirects here:

County of Anhalt, Prince of Anhalt.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Anhalt

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