Anhalt-Dessau
Sign in to saveAnhalt-Dessau was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and later a duchy of the German Confederation. Ruled by the House of Ascania, it was created in 1396 following the partition of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, and finally merged into the re-united Duchy of Anhalt in 1863. The capital of the state was Dessau in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Principality (Duchy) of Anhalt-Dessau
- Country.common_name
- Anhalt-Dessau
- Country.image_flag
- Flag of the Anhalt Duchies.svg
- Country.flag_type
- 19th century flag of the Anhalt duchies
- Country.image_coat
- File:Shield of the Duchy of Anhalt.svg
- Country.symbol
- Coat of arms of Saxony-Anhalt
- Country.symbol_type
- 19th century coat of arms of the Anhalt duchies
- Country.image_map
- Map of Anhalt (1747-1793).svg
- Country.image_map_caption
- The Anhalt principalities, with Anhalt-Dessau in green
- Country.era
- Middle Ages
- Country.status
- Principality
- Country.empire
- Holy Roman Empire
- Country.government_type
- Principality
- Country.title_leader
- Prince
- Country.leader1
- Sigismund I
- Country.year_leader1
- 1396–1405
- Country.leader2
- Leopold III
- Country.year_leader2
- 1751–1807
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Country
- Holy Roman Empire
- Located in
- Holy Roman Empire
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Dessau
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- inception
- 1396-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1853-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Anhalt-Dessau
- Commons category
- Principality Anhalt-Dessau
- member of
- Holy Roman Empire
- native label
- Anhalt-Dessau
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Rulers of Anhalt-Dessau
- Princes (1396–1561)
- Princes (1603–1807)
- Dukes (1807–1863)
- Notes
- References
Anhalt-Dessau was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and later a duchy of the German Confederation. Ruled by the House of Ascania, it was created in 1396 following the partition of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, and finally merged into the re-united Duchy of Anhalt in 1863. The capital of the state was Dessau in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.
==History== thumb|left|Johannbau, preserved west wing of Dessau Palace The Principality of Anhalt arose in 1212 under its first ruler Henry I, son of the Saxon duke Bernhard III. Named after Anhalt Castle, the ancestral seat of the Ascanian dynasty near Harzgerode, the principality experienced a number of partitions throughout its centuries-long existence.
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