Berg

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Berg was a historical German territorial entity that gave its name to the later Grand Duchy of Berg in the Rhineland region.

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Label Occurrences
Berg canonical 8

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German territorial entity
former state
historical territory
associatedCity Leverkusen
Remscheid
Solingen
Wuppertal
borderedBy County of Mark
County of Ravensberg
Duchy of Cleves
Duchy of Guelders
Duchy of Jülich
Duchy of Westphalia
Electorate of Cologne
capital Düsseldorf
coatOfArms red lion on silver field
country Holy Roman Empire
followedBy Grand Duchy of Berg
Grand Duchy of Berg
surface form: Grand Duchy of Berg in the Rhineland
gaveNameTo Bergisches Land
Grand Duchy of Berg
governmentType principality
hasLanguage German
hasRiver Rhine
Ruhr
Wupper
historicalCapital Düsseldorf Castle
surface form: Burg an der Wupper
historicalRegion Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle
historicalStatus imperial fief
laterCapital Düsseldorf
locatedIn Rhineland
western Germany
surface form: Western Germany
namedAfter Bergisches Land
nobleTitle Count of Berg
Duke of Berg
partOf Holy Roman Empire
Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle
precededBy County of Berg
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Roman Catholicism
ruledBy House of Berg
House of Hohenzollern
House of Jülich
surface form: House of Jülich-Berg

House of Palatinate-Neuburg
Palatinate-Sulzbach
surface form: House of Palatinate-Sulzbach

House of Wittelsbach
todayPartOf Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia

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