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The Bremen-Verden Campaign (German: Bremen-Verdener Feldzug) was a conflict during the Northern Wars in Europe. From 15 September 1675 to 13 August 1676 an anti-Swedish coalition comprising Brandenburg-Prussia, the neighbouring imperial princedoms of Lüneburg and Münster, and Denmark-Norway, conquered the Duchies of Bremen and Verden.
- 15 September 1675 – 13 August 1676
- Duchies of Bremen and Verden
- Allied victory
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Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden, were two territories and immediate fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged and gained imperial immediacy in 1180. By their original constitution they were prince-bishoprics of the Archdiocese of Bremen and Bishopric of Verden.
In 1712, during the Great Northern War (1700–1721) against Swedish supremacy in the Baltic, plague stricken Bremen-Verden was occupied by Frederick IV of Denmark. In 1715 he ceded the territory to a new ally, George I , Elector of Hanover and King of Great Britain since 1714.
Bremen. / 53.07583°N 8.80722°E / 53.07583; 8.80722. Bremen ( Low German also: Breem or Bräm ), officially the City Municipality of Bremen ( German: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, IPA: [ˈʃtatɡəˌmaɪndə ˈbʁeːmən] ⓘ ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( Freie Hansestadt Bremen ), a two-city-state ...
- 12 m (39 ft)
- 5 boroughs, 19 districts, 88 subdistricts
- 28001–28779
- Germany
The Swedish wars on Bremen were fought between the Swedish Empire and the Hanseatic town of Bremen in 1654 and 1666. Bremen claimed to be subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining Imperial immediacy, while Sweden claimed Bremen to be a mediatised part of her dominions of Bremen-Verden, themselves territories immediately beneath the emperor ...
Das Große Bremen-Lexikon is an 18th-century encyclopaedia by the Freie Hansestadt Bremen, written by Herbert Schwarzwälder about. the region, as Territory of Bremen, as Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (Bremen Archbishopric), as Bremen-Verden and. an encyclopaedia of the Hanseatic city Bremen and the maritime city Bremerhaven ..
