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86 relations: A History of the World in 100 Objects, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Albert III, Duke of Saxony, Altenburg, Anna of Saxony, Anna of Saxony (1567–1613), Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Bishopric of Merseburg, Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz, Bogislav IX, British Museum, Calvinism, Caspar Peucer, Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Catherine of Mecklenburg, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Christian III of Denmark, Crypto-Calvinism, Cymburgis of Masovia, Denmark, Dessau, Diet of Augsburg, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Dorothea of Saxony, Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg, Elisabeth of Saxony, Eric II, Duke of Pomerania, Ernest, Duke of Austria, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Freiberg, Freiberg Cathedral, George of Poděbrady, Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire, House of Habsburg, House of Henneberg, House of Wettin, Huguenots, Imperial ban, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, ..., Johann Stössel, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg, Kunigunde of Sternberg, Leipzig, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Lutheranism, Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg, Mansfeld, Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony, Matthias Flacius, Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Mechanical Galleon, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman wars in Europe, Peace of Augsburg, Philip Melanchthon, Regent, Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen, Saxe-Weimar, Saxony, Schmalkaldic League, Sidonie of Poděbrady, Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Spanish Netherlands, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Torgau, Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady, Vienna, Vogtland, Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania, Weißenfels, Wilhelm von Grumbach, William the Silent. Expand index (36 more) »
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, comprising a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor.
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Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt
Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (12 March 1573, Dessau – 3 November 1616, Sønderborg) was a Princess of Anhalt by birth, an Abbess of Gernrode, and by marriage Electress of Saxony and later Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.
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Albert III, Duke of Saxony
Albert III (Albrecht) (27 January 144312 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony.
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Altenburg
Altenburg is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt.
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Anna of Saxony
Anna of Saxony (23 December 1544 – 18 December 1577) was the heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony, and Agnes, eldest daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.
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Anna of Saxony (1567–1613)
Anna of Saxony (16 November 1567 - 27 January 1613), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Wettin (Albertine branch) and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
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Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony
Anne of Denmark (Danish and German: Anna; Haderslev, 22 November 1532 - Dresden, 1 October 1585) was a Danish princess from the House of Oldenburg.
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Bishopric of Merseburg
The Bishopric of Merseburg was an episcopal see on the eastern border of the medieval Duchy of Saxony with its centre in Merseburg, where Merseburg Cathedral was constructed.
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Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz
The Prince-Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz (Bistum Naumburg-Zeitz; Citizensis, then Naumburgensis or Nuemburgensis) was a medieval diocese in the central German area between Leipzig in the east and Erfurt in the west.
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Bogislav IX
Bogislav IX (Bogislaw IX., Bogusław IX; 1407/1410 – 7 December 1446), commonly known in English as Bogislav IX, was a duke of Pomerania in Pomerania-Stolp, whose residence was Stargard.
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British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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Calvinism
Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.
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Caspar Peucer
Caspar Peucer (pronounced,; January 6, 1525 – September 25, 1602) was a German reformer, physician, and scholar of Sorbian origin.
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Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1395 – 28 December 1442, Grimma) was a member of the House of Welf, a princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and by marriage, the Electress of Saxony.
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Catherine of Mecklenburg
Catherine of Mecklenburg (1487 – 6 June 1561, Torgau), Duchess of Saxony, was the daughter of the Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg and Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin.
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Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (born: circa 1400; died: 22 September 1450), was Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg by birth and by marriage Baroness of Werle-Güstrow and later Duchess of Mecklenburg and Regent from 1422 to 1436.
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Christian I, Elector of Saxony
Christian I of Saxony (29 October 1560 in Dresden – 25 September 1591 in Dresden) was Elector of Saxony from 1586 to 1591.
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Christian III of Denmark
Christian III (12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559) reigned as King of Denmark from 1534 until his death, and King of Norway from 1537 until his death.
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Crypto-Calvinism
Crypto-Calvinism is a pejorative term describing a segment of German members of the Lutheran Church accused of secretly subscribing to Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist in the decades immediately after the death of Martin Luther in 1546.
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Cymburgis of Masovia
Cymburgis of Masovia (Cimburgis von Masowien), also Zimburgis or Cimburga (Cymbarka mazowiecka; 1394 or 1397 – 28 September 1429), a member of the Polish Piast dynasty, was Duchess of Austria from 1412 until 1424, by her marriage with the Habsburg duke Ernest the Iron.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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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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Diet of Augsburg
The Diet of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in the German city of Augsburg.
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Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Dorothea of Brandenburg (9 February 1420, Berlin – 19 January 1491, Benedictine monastery at Rehna) was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg.
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Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (9 July 1511 – 7 October 1571) was the wife of King Christian III of Denmark and the queen consort of Denmark and Norway.
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Dorothea of Saxony
Dorothea of Saxony (Dorothea von Sachsen; 4 October 1563 in Dresden – 13 February 1587 in Wolfenbüttel) was a Saxon princess from the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
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Dresden
Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.
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Electorate of Saxony
The Electorate of Saxony (Kurfürstentum Sachsen, also Kursachsen) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire established when Emperor Charles IV raised the Ascanian duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of an Electorate by the Golden Bull of 1356.
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Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg
Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut (1383 – 13 November 1442), nicknamed "Beautiful Beth", was an Electress of Brandenburg.
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Elisabeth of Saxony
Elisabeth of Saxony (born: 18 October 1552 at Wolkenstein Castle in Wolkenstein – died: 2 April 1590 in Heidelberg) was an Saxon princess from the House of Wettin by birth and by marriage Countess Palatine of Simmern.
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Eric II, Duke of Pomerania
Eric II or Erich II (between 1418 and 1425 – 5 July 1474) was a member of the House of Pomerania (also known as the House of Griffins) and was the ruling Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast from 1457 to 1474.
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Ernest, Duke of Austria
Ernest the Iron (1377 – 10 June 1424), a member of the House of Habsburg, ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from 1406 until his death.
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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand I (Fernando I) (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558, king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, and king of Croatia from 1527 until his death.
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Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg
Frederick (Middle High German: Friderich, Standard German: Friedrich; 21 September 1371 – 20 September 1440) was the last Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1397 to 1427 (as Frederick VI), Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1398, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from 1420, and Elector of Brandenburg (as Frederick I) from 1415 until his death.
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Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
Frederick I, the Belligerent or the Warlike (Friedrich der Streitbare; 11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428), a member of the House of Wettin, ruled as Margrave of Meissen from 1407 and Elector of Saxony (as Frederick I) from 1423 until his death.
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Frederick II, Elector of Saxony
Frederick II, The Gentle (Friedrich, der Sanftmütige; Frederick the Gentle) (22 August 1412 in Leipzig – 7 September 1464 in Leipzig) was Elector of Saxony (1428–1464) and was Landgrave of Thuringia (1440–1445).
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Frederick III, Elector Palatine
Frederick III of Simmern, the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (February 14, 1515 – October 26, 1576) was a ruler from the house of Wittelsbach, branch Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim.
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Freiberg
Freiberg is a university and mining town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.
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Freiberg Cathedral
The Freiberg Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary (Dom St.) is a church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony in Freiberg in Saxony.
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George of Poděbrady
George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (Jiří z Poděbrad; Georg von Podiebrad), was King of Bohemia (1458–1471).
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Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg
Henry IV, Duke of Mecklenburg (1417 – 9 March 1477) was from 1422 to 1477 Duke of Mecklenburg.
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Henry IV, Duke of Saxony
Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (Heinrich der Fromme) (Dresden, 16 March 1473 – Dresden, 18 August 1541) was a Duke of Saxony from the House of Wettin.
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Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Henry Julius (Heinrich Julius; 15 October 1564 – 30 July 1613), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1589 until his death.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.
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House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English), also called House of Austria was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of Europe.
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House of Henneberg
Henneberg was a medieval German comital family (Grafen) which from the 11th century onwards held large territories in the Duchy of Franconia.
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House of Wettin
The House of Wettin is a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors and kings that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
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Huguenots
Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.
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Imperial ban
The imperial ban (Reichsacht) was a form of outlawry in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt
Joachim Ernest of Anhalt (21 October 1536 – 6 December 1586), was a German prince of the House of Ascania, ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst from 1551, and from 1570 sole ruler of all the Anhalt lands.
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Johann Stössel
Johann Stössel (also spelled Stoessel, 24 June 1524 – 18 March 1576) was a Lutheran Theologian and Reformer.
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John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern
John Casimir, Count Palatine of Simmern (German: Johann Casimir von Pfalz-Simmern) (7 March 1543 – Brockhaus Geschichte Second Edition) was a German prince and a younger son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine.
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John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
John Casimir of Saxe-Coburg (Gotha, 12 June 1564 – Coburg, 16 July 1633) was the Duke of Saxe-Coburg.
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John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
Johann Frederick I (Johann Friedrich I; 30 June 1503 in Torgau – 3 March 1554 in Weimar), called Johann the Magnanimous, or St.
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John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg
John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg (before 1370 – 16 October 1422) was sole ruler of the Duchy of Mecklenburg from 1384 to 1395 and co-regent from 1395 to 1422.
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Kunigunde of Sternberg
Kunigunde of Sternberg (Kunhuta ze Šternberka; 18 November 1425, Konopiště – 19 November 1449, Poděbrady) was the first wife of George of Poděbrady, who later became King of Bohemia.
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Leipzig
Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.
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Lucas Cranach the Younger
Lucas Cranach the Younger (Lucas Cranach der Jüngere; 4 October 1515 – 25 January 1586) was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.
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Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg
Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Güstrow (1441 – 20 November 1503) was duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1477 until his death.
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Mansfeld
Mansfeld (cognate with English Mansfield), sometimes also unofficially Mansfeld-Lutherstadt, is a town in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony
Margaret of Austria (c. 1416 – 12 February 1486), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Electress of Saxony from 1431 until 1464 by her marriage with the Wettin elector Frederick II.
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Matthias Flacius
Matthias Flacius Illyricus (Latin; Matija Vlačić Ilirik) (3 March 1520 – 11 March 1575) was a Lutheran reformer from Istria, present day Croatia.
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Maurice, Elector of Saxony
Maurice (21 March 1521 – 9 July 1553) was Duke (1541–47) and later Elector (1547–53) of Saxony.
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Mechanical Galleon
The Mechanical Galleon is an elaborate nef or table ornament in the form of a ship, which is also an automaton and clock.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.
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Ottoman wars in Europe
The Ottoman wars in Europe were a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and various European states dating from the Late Middle Ages up through the early 20th century.
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Peace of Augsburg
The Peace of Augsburg, also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (the predecessor of Ferdinand I) and the Schmalkaldic League, signed in September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg.
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Philip Melanchthon
Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems.
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Regent
A regent (from the Latin regens: ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state because the monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen
The Diocese of Dresden-Meissen (Dioecesis Dresdensis-Misnensis; Bistum Dresden-Meißen) is a Diocese of Catholic Church in Germany with its seat in Dresden.
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Saxe-Weimar
Saxe-Weimar (Sachsen-Weimar) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in present-day Thuringia.
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Saxony
The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).
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Schmalkaldic League
The Schmalkaldic League; was a military alliance of Lutheran princes within the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-16th century.
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Sidonie of Poděbrady
Sidonie of Poděbrady (Zdenka z Poděbrad; 14 November 1449 – 1 February 1510) was a duchess consort of Saxony.
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Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin (– 26 April 1504, Wismar), was Duchess of Mecklenburg by marriage from 1478 to 1504.
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Spanish Netherlands
Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols, Spanische Niederlande) was the collective name of States of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, held in personal union by the Spanish Crown (also called Habsburg Spain) from 1556 to 1714.
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Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) is a cultural institution in Dresden, Germany, owned by the State of Saxony.
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Torgau
Torgau is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany.
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Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady
Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady (also: Viktorin of Poděbrady, Victor Boček of Poděbrady, Victor Boček of Kunstadt and Poděbrady; Czech: Viktorín z Poděbrad, or Viktorín Boček z Kunštátu a Poděbrad; German: Viktorin von Podiebrad; 1403 – 1 January 1427 in Pardubice) was a Bohemian-Moravian nobleman and a member of the House of Poděbrady.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.
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Vogtland
The Vogtland (Fojtsko) is a region reaching across the German free states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia and into the Czech Republic (north-western Bohemia).
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Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania
Duke Wartislaw IX of Pomerania-Wolgast (c. 1400 – 17 April 1457, Wolgast) was the eldest son of the Duke Barnim VI, Duke of Pomerania and Veronica (dynasty of Griffins).
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Weißenfels
Weißenfels (often written in English as Weissenfels) is the largest town of the Burgenlandkreis district, in southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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Wilhelm von Grumbach
Wilhelm von Grumbach (1 June 1503 – 18 April 1567) was a German adventurer, chiefly known through his connection with the so-called “Grumbach Feud” (Grumbachsche Händel), the last attempt of the Imperial Knights to prevail against the power of the territorial Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
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William the Silent
William I, Prince of Orange (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also widely known as William the Silent or William the Taciturn (translated from Willem de Zwijger), or more commonly known as William of Orange (Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1581.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus,_Elector_of_Saxony
