Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg

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duchy former state

The Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg was a small early modern German principality in the Holy Roman Empire, created in the 17th century as a secundogeniture of the Wettin dynasty and centered around the town of Merseburg.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg canonical	2
Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	duchy ⓘ former state ⓘ
associatedWith	Thirty Years' War aftermath ⓘ
borderedBy	Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels NERFINISHED ⓘ Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Electorate of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital	Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
coatOfArms	arms of Saxe-Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
country	Holy Roman Empire ⓘ
createdFrom	Electorate of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ
currency	Saxon coinage ⓘ
dissolvedBy	reversion to the Electorate of Saxony ⓘ
dynasty	House of Wettin NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	1738 ⓘ
era	Early modern period ⓘ
establishedAs	secundogeniture of the Wettin dynasty ⓘ
firstRuler	Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
followedBy	Electorate of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ
governmentType	duchy ⓘ monarchy ⓘ
houseSeat	Merseburg Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	German ⓘ
lastRuler	Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
legalSystem	Saxon territorial law ⓘ
locatedIn	Central Europe ⓘ Electorate of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ present-day Germany ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	state of Saxony ⓘ state of Saxony-Anhalt NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
nobleTitle	Duke of Saxe-Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Holy Roman Empire ⓘ Upper Saxon Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededBy	direct administration by the Electorate of Saxony ⓘ
religion	Lutheranism ⓘ Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
rulingFamily	Wettin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ
shortName	Saxe-Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
sovereigntyType	immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ
startTime	1657 ⓘ
status	imperial fief ⓘ
subdivisionOf	Electorate of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ
typeOfSubdivision	Wettin secundogeniture ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

House of Wettin → ruledTerritory → Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg ⓘ

this entity surface form: Duchy of Saxe-Zeitz

Upper Saxon Circle → appliesToJurisdiction → Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg ⓘ