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Landgraviate of Hesse. Electorate of Saxony. The Duchy of Thuringia was an eastern frontier march of the Merovingian kingdom of Austrasia, [1] 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. It was recreated in the Carolingian Empire and ...
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Thuringia had an earlier existence as the Frankish Duchy of...
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Area: 12,325 km 2. Population: 1,585,356. Map. The...
- Thuringia - Wikipedia
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. It was recreated in the Carolingian Empire and its dukes were appointed by the king until it was absorbed by the Saxon dukes in 908. From about ...
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886 - 906. Conrad the Elder, duke of Thuringia (a temporary post) and Franconia is the son of Udo of Neustria. His mother is most likely to be a daughter of Conrad I of Logenahe (832-860). Conrad also becomes a count of the Oberlahngau in 886, Hessengau in 897, Gotzfeldgau in 903, Wetterau in 905, and Wormsgau in 906.
For later history of the duchy, see Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Dukes of Saxe-Gotha. Ernest I the Pious (1640–75), Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg from 1672; Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1675–1691), jointly with his brothers until 1680: Albert V, became Duke of Saxe-Coburg; Bernhard I, became Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Thuringia ( German: Thüringen) is a Bundesland of Germany. It lies in central Germany and has an area of 16,251 km 2 (6,274.5 sq mi ). This means Thuringia is the sixth smallest state in Germany by area. It has 2.1 million inhabitants, [1] so it is the fifth smallest state in Germany by population. The capital is Erfurt .
