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The Duchy of Thuringia was an eastern frontier march of the Merovingian kingdom of Austrasia, established about 631 by King Dagobert I after his troops had been defeated by the forces of the Slavic confederation of Samo at the Battle of Wogastisburg.
Thuringia had an earlier existence as the Frankish Duchy of Thuringia, established around 631 AD by King Dagobert I. The state was established in 1920 as a state of the Weimar Republic from a merger of the Ernestine duchies , save for Saxe-Coburg .
Counts of Thuringia AD 888 - 1130. A small stem duchy emerged from the fragmentation of the Eastern Frankish kingdom when the Germanic Roman empire was formally secured by German rulers.
The Duchy of Thuringia was an eastern frontier march of the Merovingian kingdom of Austrasia, established about 631 by King Dagobert I after his troops had been defeated by the forces of the Slavic confederation of Samo at the Battle of Wogastisburg.
Saxon duchies, several former states in the Thuringian region of east-central Germany, ruled by members of the Ernestine branch of the house of Wettin between 1485 and 1918; today their territory occupies Thuringia Land (state) and a small portion of northern Bavaria Land in Germany.
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From 1672 to 1690 it was the centre of the duchy of Saxe-Jena, and it remained a ducal residence until 1918. Napoleon won a notable victory over the Prussian army on the heights north of Jena in 1806 ( see Battle of Jena ). Jena, Germany.
The Thuringian states (German: Thüringische Staaten) refers to the following German federal states within the German Reich: The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, officially the Grand Duchy of Saxony (Großherzogtum Sachsen) from 1903
