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The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( German: Herzogtum Braunschweig und Lüneburg ), or more properly the Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg, was a historical duchy that existed from the late Middle Ages to the Late Modern era within the Holy Roman Empire, until the year of its dissolution. The duchy was located in what is now northwestern Germany.
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The Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, or more properly the Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg, was a historical duchy that existed from the late Middle Ages to the Late Modern era within the Holy Roman Empire, until the year of its dissolution. The duchy was located in what is now northwestern Germany. Its name came from the two largest cities in the territory: Brunswick and Lüneburg.
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Mutual recognition between Brunswick and Lüneburg and the United States was established in 1848. The Duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg joined the North German Confederation in 1867, to which the U.S. appointed George Bancroft , then U.S. Minister to Prussia, to serve as the U.S. Minister to the North German Confederation.
Other articles where House of Brunswick-Lüneburg is discussed: Hanover: …of territories of the Welf house of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Created in 1638 as the principality of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, it came to be named after its principal town, Hanover. Ernest Augustus I (1630–98), duke from 1680, united the principality with that of Lüneburg, marrying his son George Louis to Sophia ...
Prince-bishop of Osnabrück (1661) Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg - Calenberg (Hanover), 1679. First Elector of Brunswick - Lüneburg (Hanover), 1692-1698. In 1658, married Sophie (1630-1714), daughter of Friedrich V. (1596-1632) and Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662). Set Leibniz to work on a history of the House of Brunswick.
The Duchy of Brunswick ( German: Herzogtum Braunschweig) was a historical German state. Its capital was the city of Brunswick ( Braunschweig ). It was established as the successor state of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the course of the 19th-century history of Germany, the duchy was part of ...
Emergence. The Principality of Lüneburg was created by the division of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a state that had been formed in 1235 from the allodial lands of the Welfs in Saxony and given as an imperial fief to Otto the Child, a nephew of Henry the Lion. The name of the dukedom was drawn from the two largest towns in the territory ...
