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    The Electoral Rhenish Circle (German: Kurrheinischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1512. The circle derived...
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    imperial circles as part of the Imperial Reform: the Bavarian Circle the Franconian Circle the Saxon Circle the Swabian Circle the Upper Rhenish Circle the...
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    Rhineland (redirect from Rhenish)
    Imperial Circles. Three of the ten circles through which the Rhine flowed referred to the river in their names: the Upper Rhenish Circle, the Electoral Rhenish...
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    The Upper Rhenish Circle (German: Oberrheinischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1500 on the territory of...
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    Electorate itself remained officially Protestant. Entries are listed by Imperial Circle (introduced 1500, 1512) even for territories that ceased to exist prior...
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    Thurn und Taxis (category Electoral Rhenish Circle)
    The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (German: Fürstenhaus Thurn und Taxis, [ˈtuːɐ̯n ʔʊnt ˈtaksɪs]) is a family of German nobility that is part of the...
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    Empire (W) List of states in the Holy Roman Empire (Z) The "Circle" column shows the Imperial Circle (Reichskreis) that the state belonged to. The "Bench" column...
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    Knights' War (category Electoral Rhenish Circle)
    Date 27 August 1522 – 6 May 1523 Location Electoral Rhenish and Upper Rhenish circles of the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Southern Germany) Result Imperial...
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    Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia—while western Rhenish Franconia belonged to the Upper Rhenish Circle. The title of a "Duke of Franconia" was claimed...
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    Electoral Rhenish circles, confirmed by the 1521 Diet of Worms. After 1512, the bulk of the remaining territories not comprised by Imperial Circles were...
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    tradition of the cathedral chapter electing a successor to the bishop. Electoral Palace, Mainz Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg Palace of the Mainz...
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    Arenberg (category Electoral Rhenish Circle)
    area of 413 km2 and a population of 14,800. It belonged to the Electoral Rhenish Circle and was bordered by the duchy of Jülich, the Archbishopric of Cologne...
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    Electorate of Cologne (German: Kurfürstentum Köln), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (German: Kurköln), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy...
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    triplum. The figures for the contingents to be supplied by each Imperial Circle were little altered until the demise of the Empire. In practice, they were...
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    Province) and Hesse (Rhenish Hesse). In 1816, the Palatinate became a formal part of the Wittelsbach Kingdom of Bavaria (the Rheinkreis or Circle of the Rhine)...
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  • Nieder-Isenburg (category Electoral Rhenish Circle)
    Nieder-Isenburg (often called Lower Isenburg) was a small mediaeval county in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was located to the east of the...
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    the Franconian Circle. For example, the area of Aschaffenburg belonged to Electoral Mainz and was a part of the Electoral Rhenish Circle, the area of Coburg...
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    1782 accredited as ambassador to the Electoral Rhenish Circle, Upper Rhenish Circle, Swabian Circle, Franconian Circle, Electorate of Mainz, Electorate of...
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    was held in Trier in 1512, during which the demarcation of the Imperial Circles was definitively established. Between 1581 and 1593, the Trier witch trials...
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    Vest Recklinghausen (category Electoral Rhenish Circle)
    fiefdom of the Archbishopric of Cologne and thus it belonged to the Electoral Rhenish Circle. The administrator lived in castle Westerholt, located in Herten...
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    The Palatinate (German: Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz), or the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a historical region of Germany. Palatinate occupies...
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    Rhenish Franconia (German: Rheinfranken) or Western Franconia (German: Westfranken) denotes the western half of the central German stem duchy of Franconia...
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  • territory to Bavaria. In 1837, the Circle of the Rhine was renamed the Palatinate (Pfalz). It was also referred to as the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz). The...
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  • Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany The Electoral Palatinate, a state that existed until 1803 Rhenish Palatinate, another name for the Circle of Rhine (Rheinkreis) or...
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    belonged to the Upper Rhenish and Electoral Rhenish Circles and thus had never been part of Franconia (in the sense of the Franconian Circle). As part of the...
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    Eastern Franconia, Rhenish Franconia was divided and extinguished. Its territories became part of the Imperial Upper Rhenish Circle in 1500. As of the...
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    List of coats of arms with the Palatine Lion (category Electoral Palatinate)
    variations from the normal design or to links to separate articles Electoral Rhenish Circle Wappenbuch des Landkreises Cochem-Zell, Darmstadt 2001, v. Alfons...
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  • Marktwirtschaft), also called Rhine capitalism, Rhine-Alpine capitalism, the Rhenish model, and social capitalism, is a socioeconomic model combining a free-market...
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    Franconian and the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circles. Likewise, on the ecclesiastical bench, the Imperial abbots joined a Swabian or Rhenish college. In the German...
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    German comital family (Grafen) which held large territories in Rhenish Hesse, Electoral Palatinate and Upper Swabia. The distant origins of this family...
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