Upper Rhenish Circle

state in Western Europe that existed from 1416 to 1860

former state

Principality of the Holy Roman Empire (1567–1806)

since 1815 sovereign state, member of the German Confederation, annexed by Prussia in 1866, indirect successor of the Kurfüstentum of Hesse, a territory of Holy Roman Empire

duchy

landgraviate

Hesse-Homburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and a sovereign member of the German Confederation, which consisted of the lordship of Homburg at the foot of the Taunus, which was then known as Die Höhe ("the Heights"). The reigning princes belonged to the Darmstadt line of the House of Hesse. It was created in 1622 by the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt to be ruled by one of his sons, but from 1622 to 1768 and again from 1806 to 1815, the territory was part of Hesse-Darmstadt. It was briefly divided into Hesse-Homburg and Hesse-Homburg-Bingenheim; but these parts were reunited in 1681. In 181

Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire

16th-century conflict in the Holy Roman Empire

principality

countship

lost Roman Catholic Diocese

countship

Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastic principality in Alsace (Holy Roman Empire, present-day France)

German monastery

former Roman Catholic diocese seated at Toul in present-day France

countship

state of the Holy Roman Empire

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Roman Catholic bishop

countship