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3 days ago · Monarchy of Sweden. The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden, [3] by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. [4] There have been kings in what now is the Kingdom of Sweden for more than a millennium. Originally an elective monarchy, it became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th ...
1 day ago · Jersey. The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo. The duchy was named for its inhabitants, the Normans . From 1066 until 1204, as a result of the Norman conquest of England, the dukes of Normandy were usually also kings of England, the only ...
This is a list of countries in the 1840s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1840 and 31 December 1849. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It includes widely recognized sovereign states, entities which were de facto ...
8 hours ago · The House of Habsburg-Lorraine retained Austria and attached possessions after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire; see below. A son of Leopold II was Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria whose wife was from the House of Savoy ; a daughter Adelaide, Queen of Sardinia was the wife of King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia and King of Italy .
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5 days ago · Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780199693078; 784pp.; Price: £85.00. It is a brave man who would take on the job of writing a history of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire between 1493 and 1806. Many historians would maintain that neither Germany nor even German national consciousness (certainly not German nationalism) existed ...
5 days ago · The city-states of Berlin and Hamburg are subdivided into boroughs. The City of Bremen consists of two urban districts, Bremen and Bremerhaven, which are not contiguous. In the other states, there are the following subdivisions:
5 days ago · The Peace of Westphalia, signed in October 1648, compensated Sweden for the losses sustained during the war, granting it a sizable part of the former Duchy of Pomerania (on the Baltic coast of present-day Germany and Poland), the town of Wismar (also on the Baltic coast), and the bishoprics of Bremen and Verden, on the North Sea - as well as ...
