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History of Hesse. Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1871. Hesse in 1900, divided between several states. People's State of Hesse and Hesse-Nassau in 1930. Greater Hesse in Allied-occupied Germany, 1945–1946. This article is about the history of Hesse. Hesse is a state in Germany. Prehistoric.
Article History. Also spelled: Hesse. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Hessen, Land (state) in the west-central part of Germany. Hessen is bounded by the states of Lower Saxony to the north, Thuringia to the east, Bavaria to the southeast, Baden-Württemberg to the south, Rhineland-Palatinate to the west, and North Rhine–Westphalia to the northwest.
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Hesse-Darmstadt, former landgraviate, grand duchy, and state of Germany. It was formed in 1567 in the division of old Hesse; after Hesse-Kassel was absorbed by Prussia in 1866, Hesse-Darmstadt was usually known simply as Hesse. Hesse-Darmstadt was originally only the small territory of Upper.
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Hesse or Hessia (German: Hessen ⓘ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers ...
Hesse's beginnings. Hesse's earliest recorded ancestors were (probably) the Chatten, a Germanic folk who were recorded in the first century AD, but Hesse itself emerged from the collapse of the German political system in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The first recorded entry of a location which can be confirmed as being within ...
Hesse (Germany) The Germanic tribe of the Chatti of first century AD Europe gradually became the German Hessi of the Middle Ages (Medieval Latin 'Hassia'). The first recorded entry of a location within Hesse's Central European territory dates from AD 782. The town mentioned was Eberstadt, then called Eberstadt im Rheingau, where a certain ...
This is a list of monarchs of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant, originally the Reginar. Hesse was ruled as a landgraviate, electorate and later as a grand duchy until 1918.
