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- Baden-Württemberg (/ ˌbɑːdənˈvɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ / BAH-dən VURT-əm-burg, German: [ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state (Land) in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
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Contents. hide. (Top) History. See also. References. Württemberg. For other uses, see Württemberg (disambiguation). Territory of Württemberg 1810–1945. Württemberg ( / ˈwɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ, ˈvɜːrt -/ WURT-əm-burg, VURT-; [1] German: [ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia.
Württemberg, former German state, successively a countship, a duchy, a kingdom, and a republic before its partition after World War II. Its territory approximated the central and eastern areas of present-day Baden-Württemberg Land (state), of Germany .
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Carsten Koall/Getty Images. By. Matt Rosenberg. Updated on January 27, 2020. While the terms country, state, sovereign state, nation, and nation-state are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. Simply put: A state is a territory with its own institutions and populations.
For the full article, see Württemberg. Württemberg , Former state, Germany. Its territory approximated the central and eastern areas of the present-day German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Württemberg (vür´təmbĕrk´), former state, SW Germany. Württemberg was formerly also spelled Würtemberg and Wirtemberg. The former state bordered on Baden in the northwest, west, and southwest, on Hohenzollern and Switzerland (from which it was separated by Lake Constance) in the south, and on Bavaria in the east and northeast.
Summary. When the United States announced its independence from Great Britain in 1776, Württemberg was a sovereign, independent state. It was raised to the status of kingdom by Napoleon (1806) during the Napoleonic Wars of the early nineteenth century. The 1819 constitution created a bicameral legislature.