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Name: Saxony-Meiningen Duchy

Type: Polity

Start: 1681 AD

End: 1871 AD

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Was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in Thuringia. It was one of the many Ernestine Duchies that divided and reunited several times and that were ruled by dukes of the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin.

Establishment

  • January 1681: Establishment of the Saxony-Meiningen Duchy.

    • Chronology

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    1. German Unification Wars

    Were a series of wars that resulted in the creation of the German Empire under Prussian leadership in 1871.

    1.1.Franco-Prussian War

    Was a war that saw the Second French Empire fight against an alliance of German states led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The war was caused by the struggle over dominance in continental Europe between Prussia and France. The German states were victorious and in 1871 merged to form the German Empire. France was occupied and forced to cede Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.

    1.1.1.Unification of Germany (1871)

    Was the unification of 25 German states into the German Empire under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.

  • January 1871: Unification of Germany into a German Empire with tight political and administrative integration, replacing the decentralized German Confederation and Holy Roman Empire, was officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.

    • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • January 1712: Territorial change based on available maps.

  • January 1736: Establishment of the Saxony-Meiningen-Coburg Duchy.

  • January 1827: Territorial change based on available maps.

  • January 1827: The Saxony-Saalfeld-Coburg Duchy is acquired by the Saxony-Meiningen Duchy.

  • January 1827: The Saxony-Meiningen-Coburg Duchy is disestablished.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 1871: Unification of Germany into a German Empire with tight political and administrative integration, replacing the decentralized German Confederation and Holy Roman Empire, was officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.

    • Selected Sources

  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), p. 26-49
  • Köbler, G. (2014) Historische Enzyklopädie der Länder der Deutschen, C.H. Beck München, pp. 28-31
  • O'Mahony, C. I. (2013). War within the Walls: Conflict and Citizenship in the Murals of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 6(1), 6-23.

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