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Kingdom of Hanover. Prince-Bishopric of Münster. Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden ( German pronunciation: [ˈfɛɐ̯dən]; German: Herzogtümer Bremen und 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 ...
Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden ( German pronunciation: [ ˈfɛɐ̯dən]; German: Herzogtümer Bremen und 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 ...
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History of Bremen (city) Bremen, 16th century. For most of its 1,200 year history, Bremen was an independent city within the confederal jurisdiction of Germany 's Holy Roman Empire. In the late Middle Ages, its governing merchant guilds were at the centre of the Hanseatic League, which sought to monopolise the North Sea and Baltic trade.
Bremen-Verden bestod av det tidigare ärkebiskopsdömet Bremen och biskopsstiftet Verden, vilka i westfaliska freden 1648 som hertigdömen avträddes till Sverige. Området förvaltades tillsammans med Wildeshausen (som 1679-1700 var förpantat till Münster och efter 1700 till Hannover) och Thedinghausen (till 1679) i ett generalguvernement. [ 1]
- 5584 km²
- 1719
- 1648
- Tyskland
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.
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.
